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Originally Posted by jujimufu
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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Ah... our pizza service is crap. I'll be damned if I ever thank one of those bastards. Which is hardly the case with Morivou, although his (and your) reaction to not sending a pager message saying 'thank you' is frankly exaggerated. I personally don't give a crap if people say thank you to me - most actually don't. In my opinion actions are what matters.
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Originally Posted by jujimufu
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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I might not be particularly friendly, but I'm not any less eager to learn than other people - neither do I just care about myself.
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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.
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Without other people, it's not a contest.
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Originally Posted by jujimufu
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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I actually pretty much ignored your comment about the gradings. What I care about is the written comments, criticisms and suggestions about the piece, not some x/y numerical grade. I started ranting about the lack of participants after that post because it was when you made it clear it was a very possible reality that only a small fraction of the original contestants would be submitting pieces.
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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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What I implicate is subjective. Too bad you saw it in a different way than it is.
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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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And then you people would have to write new reviews... lame, huh? Especially when I didn't say thanks to the first one.
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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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The reviews are all I care about and all I expect. The reviews, not the gradings.
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Originally Posted by jujimufu
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...
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They have. If my family hadn't manipulated a kid into dropping the idea of touring Italy in order for me to do it, I would have never gotten as far as I did. And that kid was nowhere near my level. What I've achieved so far in the artistic environment (not local, mind you: I've toured two foreign countries) wasn't by being nice.
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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.
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All serious musicians I've met care about good playing, not good image.
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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.
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Excellent. That's all I ask for.