Critique Proposal

[Tamur]

hi all,

Though I'm a relative newcomer to the Mead Hall, it's a great place to be and I'm enjoying digging through past story threads quite a bit. I have a proposal after reading through many of these.

Because of my work, I spend a good bit of time on graphic art and generic art fora. Several of these have CC Levels in place -- Comment & Critique levels. That is, each person who's actually posting their art posts it with the level of critique they'd like on it at the head of the post (not in the title, but at the top of the post itself), or in their signature. Modified for the Mead Hall, these are:

CC Level 1: Be very kind, only point out good parts. Do not mention any problems.

CC Level 2: Be kind, point out good parts of the writing. Also point out one or two simple problems.

CC Level 3: Point out good parts of the writing, as well as all of the major problems with the writing.

CC Level 4: Point out the basic good parts of the writing, but focus the critique on problems with the writing, both major and minor.

CC Level 5: Mercilessly point out every little niggling problem with the writing.

It should go without saying that, in all of these CC Levels, attacking the author is not acceptable. The difference between "I can't believe you didn't move the plot anywhere in ten pages" and "Pages 45 to 55 didn't move the story along" is tremendous. The writing is the focus of the critique.

At any rate, I'd like to know everyone's thoughts on implementing something like this here? Perhaps it's been done in the past and died for some reason?

Long post, thanks for reading to the end!