Well, since you committed me to comments with the poll, here goes:
I rec whatever I'm in the mood to rec. Sometimes I want to draw attention to an author, if not the story they just wrote. Sometimes I want to give an ego boost. Sometimes I think something was amazing, and if there's even one person on my f-list who has not read this thing mentioned *everywhere else*, why, it is my fannish duty to share this with them. I rec even if there was an issue I had with the story, and sometimes I'll say if I had one, or sometimes I won't, because you know--sometimes what hits me wrong might be another person's cup of tea and with me saying that I didn't enjoy some aspect, I don't want to send them in there with that sort of...weird bias.
I tend to think through how I rec things way more than I should, I suspect, and if I ever suspect that multiple people might appreciate a specific warning, I do that for them.
Also, I am very curious on the SV story you mentioned. Would you mind e-mailing me?
Oh, and so you don't 'die of curiosity', I just like the *way* you rec things, but no, I don't read them. My recs are...really straight-forward and rather unpretty most of the time, but I still do them because finding a SV reccer is a precious and rare thing these days, and I genuinely like doing it. *g* You make stories sound gloriously interesting, and I'm sure sometime I'll come back to them and pick a random fandom or theme and just go for it. But for now, I just like reading what you consider to be important in a rec, how you structure your reasoning.
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I rec whatever I'm in the mood to rec. Sometimes I want to draw attention to an author, if not the story they just wrote. Sometimes I want to give an ego boost. Sometimes I think something was amazing, and if there's even one person on my f-list who has not read this thing mentioned *everywhere else*, why, it is my fannish duty to share this with them. I rec even if there was an issue I had with the story, and sometimes I'll say if I had one, or sometimes I won't, because you know--sometimes what hits me wrong might be another person's cup of tea and with me saying that I didn't enjoy some aspect, I don't want to send them in there with that sort of...weird bias.
I tend to think through how I rec things way more than I should, I suspect, and if I ever suspect that multiple people might appreciate a specific warning, I do that for them.
Also, I am very curious on the SV story you mentioned. Would you mind e-mailing me?
Oh, and so you don't 'die of curiosity', I just like the *way* you rec things, but no, I don't read them. My recs are...really straight-forward and rather unpretty most of the time, but I still do them because finding a SV reccer is a precious and rare thing these days, and I genuinely like doing it. *g* You make stories sound gloriously interesting, and I'm sure sometime I'll come back to them and pick a random fandom or theme and just go for it. But for now, I just like reading what you consider to be important in a rec, how you structure your reasoning.