14/08/07
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I continue to be of the opinion that the Edfringe.com forum is the most pointless, irritating breeding ground for opinionated halfwits ever to be invented (apart from possibly Big Brother). It is so insufferable that even thinking about it makes me almost speechless with rage. Problems I have with it are not limited to the following:
1) You don't have to register or display your name or email with your 'opinion' - which of course allows idiotic cowardly imbeciles to vent their frustration at the almost complete failure of their own lives without anyone being able to find them and throw a variety of rotting items at them.
2) The majority of normal, nice people aren't going to bother to write a negative review of a show, even if they really didn't like it, as they are too busy having an actual life or telling real friends what they did with their day. This means that the majority of people who leave an unpleasant review are socially inept, clueless bitter morons who have nothing better to do with their time than pick apart the efforts of someone who has actually bothered to attempt to do something with their lives.
3) It's totally unproductive, particularly for performers. Let's face it, the majority of people who check the forums are performers. And it's so very difficult not to look - most people like a bit of reassurance that someone out there might have enjoyed their show. But really, what good is it going to do anyone to have 6 months effort dismissed as "the worst thing I have ever seen...this person has absolutely no talent" by an online community obsessed officer worker from Dudley who's idea of a good joke is Bernard Manning reenacting a rape?
No matter how great your self-esteem (and most performers' isn't exactly amazing) one horrible comment sticks in your mind more easily than 10 good ones - and what's the point of that? Unless there is a universal consensus that a performer is terrible and should get a different job (and there very rarely is if the performer has achieved any level of success thus far) why should it matter what Boris from Slough thinks, unless Boris from Slough has bothered to make a career for himself as a comedy reviewer who actually knows what he's talking about?
If that dreadful forum was scrapped I do think the fringe would be a very slightly nicer place.
Some of the things I had said about me last year were horrendous; genuinely abusive. It literally took me about 6 months to stop being depressed after my show - and the edfringe comments had more than a little to do with it. Maybe I'm unusually sensitive. I don't know. I just don't see what it achieves. It's a bit like people choosing which West End show to go and see based on whether some people who wrote into Sun reader's opinion column liked it.
Sun reader: "I liked that play where Harry Potter got his wand out"
Mum of three: "Ooh, let's go and see that one kids".
Most people should be able to tell what they'll like or won't like based on the publicity and professional reviews; isn't that what they're for? Who needs some opinionated twat using the internet as a unregulated medium for their otherwise intolerable views?
Ok, so that's pretty much what I'm doing right now.
But that isn't the point.
That's definitely not the point.
Oh, why is life so very impossible?
I love my new Beetle. She is the shiniest bestest thing ever.
Hooray for Peggy!
I love Peggy
Shiny and so red
If I didn't have Peggy
I might as well be dead.
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