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redwoodalchanYou know one really annoying trend I've seen among sporkers lately? Too many counts!
Like, if you want one or two counts, or even a small handful, in your sporking job to call attention to the most pernicious and annoying things about the work, that's one thing. But why on earth would you have upwards of ten or twenty different counts, pointing out every single thing you think is wrong with a work (including things so obvious or so revoltingly common they're not worth calling attention to, like sociopathy in a work by Stephenie Meyer or one of her hangers-on)? For me, at least, it starts to make it look like you're using them as a crutch, to avoid spending time actually talking about the work (which is what we came for anyway). And if you need to clarify why you assigned a count to a particular occasion, you're inevitably explaining what your issue is with the work anyway, and could just as easily have left the count out of it entirely. The counts will have mostly become useful in illustrating just how useless they really are!
Like, if you want one or two counts, or even a small handful, in your sporking job to call attention to the most pernicious and annoying things about the work, that's one thing. But why on earth would you have upwards of ten or twenty different counts, pointing out every single thing you think is wrong with a work (including things so obvious or so revoltingly common they're not worth calling attention to, like sociopathy in a work by Stephenie Meyer or one of her hangers-on)? For me, at least, it starts to make it look like you're using them as a crutch, to avoid spending time actually talking about the work (which is what we came for anyway). And if you need to clarify why you assigned a count to a particular occasion, you're inevitably explaining what your issue is with the work anyway, and could just as easily have left the count out of it entirely. The counts will have mostly become useful in illustrating just how useless they really are!
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Date: 2013-09-27 02:41 am (UTC)(In all fairness, I do use counts in my own sporkings. I DON'T think I abuse them as often as... some sporkers do, however. :\)
I really think half these counts would be better off as things discussed at various 'checkpoints' in the story than as a constant din throughout. It becomes repetitive, boring, and tedious. Not to mention it makes the sporkers sound hysterical when they start giving x1029300328843108 points ~because something was really, really awful~, 'cos... doesn't that just ruin the point of having a count in the first place when you start spamming it on every ~really bad~ point?! Jeez!