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I submited a piece, as expected, and received an equally expected review - which I agreed with. I assume that the action of not sending a completely meaningless 'thanks' through pager or PM was a pre-written social rule upon which I made a faux pas - things I never value much.
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Yes, and when you order a pizza you expect it, yet you say "thank you" to the person who's giving it to you. Plus, if you really care about reviews, then you
are thankful about the review that morivou sent you, and you don't
pretend to be, so you can as well say "thank you" and mean it. And don't worry about the people who say thank you without meaning it, because they are very randomly found, what you will mostly find is people who don't say thank you when it's appropriate.
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So now because you think I was rude you'd grade the piece lower? Under that perspective, Wagner's music is pure crap, and any nice guy who writes music is better. You'd be ignoring the music and rating it lower just because you don't like the attitude of who wrote it. It's senseless and frankly immature.
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He didn't say anything like that. But by not being polite you really don't give a good impression. And if I were to give you a review, I would give a different review to a person who really doesn't care about many things other than himself than to a person who really seems friendly and eager to learn.
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Huh? I got mad because I noticed submissions weren't coming in, which I found worrisome. I don't like entering something while no one else shows signs of activity. You naturally associated being mad with someone who just wants prestige and glory to themselves. I don't really expect to win this. I entered because the format that was suggested was one I was familiar and confortable with. And besides, what's the interest in winning a competition where the best (and only ) thing you receive are constructive comments from reviewers?
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You have no reason to be mad, then. You just have to let it go and wait for the next monthly competition, or another competition. You shouldn't care about the other people in this contest if all you care about is the review. You will get the review on your piece no matter how many people have or have not entered the competition. However, the only difference a lack of participants would make is your piece not being graded, which is when you started ranting about the lack of participants.
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Now you're just putting words in my mouth. From your assumption I'm not interested in learning, you're assuming I'm not interested in reviews. Reviews are all you get in these competitions, I'm not trying to get anything else.
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I am not. I am just saying what your behaviour implicates. And if you don't think that this is what you actually mean, then you should behave accordingly.
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That was, I admit, my mistake; I thought the submissions deadline was much shorter than it is, for some reason.
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Well, that's none of our problems, plus you must have realised that a while ago, so you could as well submit a newer version of your piece. That is no excuse, I am sorry.
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You can be as strict as you find reasonable. But the way you're phrasing it, you sound like you'll do it out of spite.
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No, what I mean is that I would review a piece differently if it was for a person who actually cared about the reviews than if it was a person who didn't.
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My teacher calls me a lazy idiot almost every single class and yet he adores me. 'Social skills in the artistic world' means a lot.
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My teacher calls me a worthless bum, yet I got 94% in the final exams and he likes chocolate. What you just said is absolutely irrelevant. I don't see how your "social skills" have interacted in your local "artistic environment" to help you manage something... What I mean is that attitude is everything in real life, and especially in the arts where everything depends on the person. You don't have a boss who tells you what to do, you have to do things yourself. You have to go grab opportunities to work, you have to do the work, you have to have a good image of yourself, otherwise no one will care.
What was done was done, I will finish off your review and send it to you. I will see how many more participants have entered and will mark or not mark the submissions respectively.
Take care, and please try to be more careful in the future.