For me it depends a lot on the “type” of criticism. Telling someone you think their story could use a bit more character development is one thing. Bashing an author because their story doesn’t go exactly the way you want it to is another.
Also, I’m really knew to the whole “episode author” thing, but sometimes criticism is just unnecessary. I’ve gotten critiqued for things that are GLITCHES. Or I’ll get critiqued for small things that don’t matter that much in my opinion. 
That’s not criticism, that’s exactly what you said: bashing.
Yeah, I’ll say people will pass off specific things as “criticism” as an excuse for you to listen but that doesn’t mean it is and should be taken that way.
Yeah, that was my point.
I just don’t get the whole: your story should have 50 different options for people to satisfy everyone because heaven forbid your story have a girl kissing two boys because I would never kiss two boys. (sarcasm alert 
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Authors already do so much coding wise, and it’s impossible to please everyone. 
My bad, you just confused me because you put it as a type of criticism.
Ah, no. I didn’t mean to do that. 
I only get annoyed if an author doesn’t want criticism but they complain about reads.
If you’re truly writing for fun, and arent worried about who likes it, then ignore everyone. Doesnt hurt me… It’s when someone whines about how they never get reads and then they dont take any advice… 
Exactly! It’s so ridiculous
Yeah that’s annoying. I did a read for read with someone and they wanted to know my opinions so I told them to basically cut the narration. Not going into too much detail but the entire first episode was like 75% narration. Which to me is way past the point of too much. I also told them another thing I’d noticed. They told me they’d fix the other thing but said nothing about the narration. Like don’t ask for my opinion if you’re not going to accept it??
I dont think they have to listen to all ur advice though always. They can accept ur opinion, but know they might have a different style.
Some people love narration, and others dont.
I like to write some narration but not a huge fan of reading it haha.
This is true. I normally enjoy narration but in the case of this story there was a lot of tell and hardly any show. I think narration is good if it complements the story but in this case it was just making it harder for me to read. I also know the author got a review done by someone else in a thread I follow and they said the same thing so
Yeah, makes sense then.
The thing is that what doesn’t matter for you may matter for a lot of people. And they’re the ones reading your story! Authors need to understand that as much as their story is theirs, they need to consider their audience and listen to what they want too. Otherwise it leads to entitled behaviour
For example, I have epilepsy. It’s not photosensitive, but I’m very aware of flashing lights in Episode stories for the people who do suffer from photosensitive epilepsy.
So when I complain about flashing lights warnings and options to skip scenes with flashing lights, people think I’m just being difficult. They think it’s a small thing. They don’t understand that their stories can cause people to have seizures.
That, and if you don’t take the criticism, at least another writer who’s familiar with your work can learn from it
That’s true! I was more talking about people telling me things that are glitches. Like I can’t help if the layers decide to wack out.
For example I had a reader tell me something was wrong with an episode because it was zoomed in for the entire thing. Because I apparently can’t notice stuff being zoomed in to 300% when I preview my story multiple times (
). The reader could have done the sensible thing and restarted the app, but instead took time out to type a message trying to tell me I had messed up.
I don’t mind critique. In fact I think it’s extremely helpful. It’s just things like what I posted above this that get on my nerves.
There are so many readers out there who are clueless of Episode glitches. Damn! 
That’s true. To be fair though it was an author I was doing a read for read with. So I guess I expected them to know the glitches can be problematic??
And sorry if I made you mad. 
That’s even worse! Have they never had a glitch before? 
I guess not. I don’t know about anyone else but the layering glitch has been an absolute pain for me, so I kind of expected other people to be dealing with it too.
Oh and the zooming glitch too.