[Twitter] Colony Drop Provides Legitimate Criticism?
Last Updated on Monday, 29 November 1999 19:00 Written by Sean Russell Thursday, 19 November 2009 08:55
Colony Drop Provides Legitimate Criticism?
Colony Drop has garnered a lot of attention for their critiques of other bloggers. In case you missed it, here’s what happened.
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@animealmanac, @ANNZac, @colonydrop, @BradleyCMeek
Scott
VonSchilling, Bradley C Meek & Colony Drop
Animealmanac: This week, I review
my favorite anime release of the year, "Evangelion 1.01: You Are (Not)
Alone" http://bit.ly/38NI2Q
Colony Drop: @animealmanac That review is
astonishingly bad and at times outright wrong. You should grow a pair and allow
comments on your posts, too.
Bradley Meek: @colonydrop And your comment is
astonishingly rude. How will your criticism help him be a better writer if you
insult him as well?
Colony Drop: @BradleyCMeek If he wanted
constructive criticism, he'd enable comments. But he's too scared, so instead
he gets 140 characters of truth.
Bradley Meek: @colonydrop humiliate @animealmanac instead. That does
nobody any good.
Colony Drop: @BradleyCMeek If he was afraid of
public criticism, he shouldn't have posted it on a public website.
Colony Drop: @BradleyCMeek What this
"community" needs is more brutal honesty, less of your hall
monitoring TBQH.
Animealmanac: Thanks for the
support, but please don't feed the trolls. ;-) I blocked that jerk after his
first rude comment to me.
Bradley Meek: @colonydrop harmful to this
"community" as the whining moe fans. A plague on both your houses.
Colony Drop: @BradleyCMeek u mad
Colony Drop: The Colony Drop
Experience: Everyone is totally down with us until we say the slightest thing
about THEM.
Zac Bertchy & Colony Drop
ANNzac: We're gonna get in to the
"right" and "wrong" way to review anime, the value of
scores, how dumb and angry people get when responding to one
Colony Drop: @ANNZac How about how anime fandom is
fundamentally opposed to any sort of actual criticism?
Colony Drop: What's a hard-hitting
Anime News Network news travel post without a photo of a toilet? THIS IS ANIME
JOURNALISM http://bit.ly/5ukoB #ann
Colony Drop: According to @ANNZac Option B is no longer with
ANN. Remember the good times: http://bit.ly/paDvC or just google Casey Brienza.
ANNzac: @colonydrop Can't wait for the next article about an
80's OVA everyone's fucking sick of hearing about from bloggers exactly like
you!
ANNzac: @colonydrop Or maybe you'll prove us all wrong by writing a
scathing review of Lost Universe and then complaining about someone's blog
ANNzac: @colonydrop Either way the fact that you're jerking yourself
off to slamming Casey Brienza is sad.
Colony Drop: @ANNZac Your amazing response to legitimate
criticism is no doubt the reason ANN has such stellar editorial content.
ANNzac: @colonydrop You're not even responding to what I
said.
ANNzac: @colonydrop In fact that's your response every
time."Legitimate criticism!!" even though you sound like a giant
trolling douche every time.
ANNzac: @colonydrop Does it make you feel powerful to beat up on
Casey Brienza?
Colony Drop: @ANNZac Does it make you feel good to defend
shit content? You have an opportunity to do something respectable w/ ANN, but
you're wasting it
ANNzac: @colonydrop Please educate me on what you consider
'respectable'.
Colony Drop: @ANNZac Reviews that don't suck. Using your
site's prominence to actually improve the quality of journalism in this
industry.
ANNzac: @colonydrop Second one I'll take, first one is lazy
bullshit. "reviews that don't suck!!" is code for "reviews I
didn't write".
Colony Drop: @ANNZac Also, less pictures of toilets in
overseas travel posts. We get it, foreign countries are WACKY.
ANNzac: @colonydrop I will take that one; no more photos of
toilets on ANN travelogues. You have my word.
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Yes, the Colony Drop guys are sort of trolls, but the points that they brought up were not entirely invalid (despite the over-the-top ways in which they expressed them). Scott's review was admittedly not very good, which is exactly what Colony Drop was talking about. Not that they disagreed with his review, but that it was not the kind of quality writing that they look for in a review.
That said, criticizing another blog is ALWAYS valid. The Colony Drop guys just like to be jerks about it because it's more entertaining than making calm, constructive criticism. I was sure entertained by it.
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I don't know who these Colony Drop guys are, but I love them already. They have the balls to say what I don't. Bravo to them.
There's a word for what you're doing with this post. I'm not sure what it is, but it seems like you're "reporting" on the Twitter drama of more popular anime sites, hoping that you'll become part of the controversy and gain my readers in the process.
I wanna play too. The guy that runs Anime Almanac is a tool for the R1 industry, and Anime News Network has been sucking it up for longer than I can remember. Bring the hate, internet. And be sure to remind me that I didn't send my criticism directly to the people I criticized.
I might not agree with what a reviewer has to say about a specific title, but the answer is very simple, don't read that person's reviews.
There are dozens if not hundreds of anime/manga review sites on the internet, if you don't like what a certain reviewer has to say about your favorite anime/manga, then just go and look for one that confirms your previously held opinion of said anime/manga.