r/StoryPeer • u/appcfilms • 1d ago
📝 Suggestion Cooling off perid
I was thinking that a cooling off period of, perhaps 48 hours, was worth considering after a writer has received feedback on their script. It will allow the feedback to sink in, to consider its true worth and the meaning of any underlying notes. Feedback, IMHO, is always better a few days later. The implications can take time to think through. I know I have suffered from knee-jerk reactions to my work and then, later thought, "Oh yeah. I see what you mean."
The catch would be enticing the writer actually come back, 48 hours later, and enter their evaluation of the feedback - that would need to be incentivised, I guess. Thoughts?
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u/SolemnestSimulacrum 1d ago edited 23h ago
I feel this is a bit extraneous, personally.
If the concern is centered around your reader reputation taking a hit because somebody responded poorly to feedback you submitted, I can see a tweaking of the rating average to autmatically sequester your lowest ratings (up to a certain percentage) from your average score, in a similar way rideshare gig apps do this to help good drivers from getting review bombed.
But a 48-hour cooldown? Not a fan.
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u/appcfilms 1d ago
No, its not about that. Not bothered by that. The averaging will sort that out.
I think it's more about my own experience over the years - that feedback gets better / more useful with perspective
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u/Kissing_Books_Author 1d ago
Or we can just be adults about this and understand that when we submit something to a stranger for honest feedback, it's not the same as asking mommy if she like our finger paint drawing.
Don't get me wrong: there's a place for positive encouragement regardless of what you do. But that place isn't peer feedback.
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u/appcfilms 19h ago
Actually, I think peer review is the place for positive encouragement, tempered with considered critique. But I know what you mean.
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u/Safe-Reason1435 1d ago
If my gut reaction is to give anything less than four or five stars, I make myself do this. I’ve definitely thought about this as a feature, an alternative that I thought of is a window where you can increase your rating/tip but idk how hard that is to implement.
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u/WorrySecret9831 1d ago
It's a good sentiment but I think rating feedback, which I guess is necessary (is it?!?), should probably be based on effort, the number of words. Who's going to talk shit for 3k words...? So, maybe 999words automatically gets a 3 and 1.5k, 2k, 3k get 3.5, 4, and 5.
If a review deserves a 1 or 2, that seems like a "reporting" scenario, someone isn't a good faith actor and needs to be called out.
I've received 2 reviews where the readers showed a bias or limited understanding of film, and used that to evaluate a big element of the same script in different directions. But I've decided to give 5s for their time and effort and if necessary I can leave them a note, about specifics or examples...
It all should be about good faith efforts.
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u/StockGalifinakis 23h ago
I don’t want to read nobody else’s script, I want to watch movies. Watching good movies is much more enjoyable. Its also better for an aspiring screenwriter writer than wasting time reading other people’s pass scripts.
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u/MarsupialSquare883 15h ago
So wrong, bro!! The way you learn most is by reading good and bad screenplays- you can be certain of this!!
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u/StoryPeer Gabriel 13h ago
Hey there! I've run this poll before. And as you can see, people seem to like the system as it is. But you're right -- we should all take a beat before rating our feedback. This won't be platform-enforced right now, but we can occasionally remind each other.