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[LegoAlchemist]

In my opinion, if you, as a creator, give in to what the fans want, it becomes their story, not yours.
Some advice is okay, but doing everything in your series for the sake of the fans takes away your originality, even if some of the fan's ideas are technically "original".

[TheFallenenvoy]

[Krauser888]

[nosebleeder]

There is a fine line between researching and noting criticism, and being a lazy writer/providing fanservice. Creators simply have to be aware of which side of the line they're on.

[zbeeblebrox]

On the other hand, there's a very large line between being a lazy writer who provides fanservice, and a lazy writer who ignores good advice. Feedback is more useful than not. Even crappy feedback has some element of value in it. If you can't parse the difference between good and bad critiques, you probably aren't experienced enough to know what you're doing in the first place.

[Lumine]

Don't get strung up on it. This is probably going to be a very popular topic.

[redwulf25_ci]

Something I'd like to see more of that I've seen in a couple blogs and vlogs already (namely Angels Game, the APCollection portion of Mr. Collector, and the newly discovered Shut Up Jeremy) is a blog/vlog that starts out as if it's just someones normal blog/vlog and then it starts getting all Slendery. It requires a bit more suspension of disbelief when the blog/vlog clearly wasn't started until after the story begins.

I understand though that this can be hard to do without being boring, but in the series I mentioned it gave more chance of character development and more of a connection to them I think. In Angels game it helped that there were a few very subtle signs that it was Slenderman related, but you had to know it was to pick them up.

[cochinosanchez]

[Andvalli]

Don't use the Operator symbol. Jus' don't. Unless you can employ it creatively, though I don't see a lot of ways you could do that. (CaughNotSleeping did though I haven't checked in on the series in a bit. The protagonist already knew what the symbol represented and got frustrated when he saw it because he thought someone was fucking with him.)

[Lumine]

[redwulf25_ci]

I suppose this is more of a "see less" post, but there's such a thing as making your codes too difficult to break. For example I don't think anyone managed to crack the most recent code Faceless put up. You get past the QR code to find base 64, which is fine except that the base 64 include non-English characters and unspecified gibberish with no clue as to where to go from there.

Or Awake, Alone, Unafraid. Props for using Ogham I suppose (it's a great language for someone as associated with trees as Slendy) but it's so bloody obscure it wouldn't shock me if I were the only one who had recognized it. Also it's a bitch and a half to translate, I could probably do it but I don't want to put in a headache inducing hour or more to find out what Slendy made you scribble in your sleep. Now, if once I'd identified it to her Esse had copied them off her scribble sheet and shown them to someone at her college to get them translated we might have found out what was up with that but asking her readers to translate a language that obscure and difficult seemed a bit much.

[taylortexas]

I like this thread! It could prove to be very helpful with potential Slenderworks.

Honestly? I'd like less proxies. It's cool for Marble Hornets, because it was completely original and works well for the Operator mythos. Outside of that, it's become a tired and headache inducing routine. "I'm being followed! Someone hacked my YouTube! I found this paper under my pillow! It says 100001110001101001I SEE YOULOL." Less of that, more Slenderman. Keep it original.

[JiingJiing]

[revolutionnairerouge]