Oh yeah, definitely different personality/different approach here, and I think a wholly different fandom experience in general. *g* I'm starting to get where you're coming from - and thanks, this is a very interesting discussion!
I'm used to hanging out in either very small fandoms or in very huge ones, and I'm mostly rare-pairing shipper. So, I'm used to being bored by or uninterested in 99% of the recs I stumble upon - I believe that's a huge part of the reason why I don't give a damn about boring people with my own recs. Boredom or disinterest is simply the way I'm used to feel or even expect to feel when I see other people's recs, so I assume others will feel the same about mine.
And yep, there has to be a huge reason for me to even consider reading out of my preferred fandom or pairing. For me to even be interested in reading/looking at something, I have to have established some kind of connection to at least one of the characters first. No connection means no interest in reading/watching/etc in my case, no matter if it's something produced by one of my favourite authors or artists in a fandom.
Also, I'm someone who doesn't often get squicked by content, but who has major character squicks. To the point that I even skip stories with my favourite pairings when I see certain character names mentioned in the summary.
Another major factor is time. Life's too short to read bad fic (unless I'm getting really desperate *g*). Or uninteresting fic. Regardless of quality, I wouldn't even think about reading a fic out of my comfort zone/my preferences when I have a long backlog of fic that fits my preferences very well and only about two hours a day to read, for example. Or I'd rather read bad!fic for my favourite pairing than a quality fic with a pairings I'm not interested in. Uhm, yeah...
No universal way to approach it. Or universal reason to rec. I agree. Also, no universal reaction towards recs. For example, recs are not the way for me to get introduced into a new fandom - they only work for me if I'm already invested.
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I'm used to hanging out in either very small fandoms or in very huge ones, and I'm mostly rare-pairing shipper. So, I'm used to being bored by or uninterested in 99% of the recs I stumble upon - I believe that's a huge part of the reason why I don't give a damn about boring people with my own recs.
Boredom or disinterest is simply the way I'm used to feel or even expect to feel when I see other people's recs, so I assume others will feel the same about mine.
And yep, there has to be a huge reason for me to even consider reading out of my preferred fandom or pairing. For me to even be interested in reading/looking at something, I have to have established some kind of connection to at least one of the characters first. No connection means no interest in reading/watching/etc in my case, no matter if it's something produced by one of my favourite authors or artists in a fandom.
Also, I'm someone who doesn't often get squicked by content, but who has major character squicks. To the point that I even skip stories with my favourite pairings when I see certain character names mentioned in the summary.
Another major factor is time. Life's too short to read bad fic (unless I'm getting really desperate *g*). Or uninteresting fic. Regardless of quality, I wouldn't even think about reading a fic out of my comfort zone/my preferences when I have a long backlog of fic that fits my preferences very well and only about two hours a day to read, for example. Or I'd rather read bad!fic for my favourite pairing than a quality fic with a pairings I'm not interested in. Uhm, yeah...
No universal way to approach it. Or universal reason to rec.
I agree. Also, no universal reaction towards recs. For example, recs are not the way for me to get introduced into a new fandom - they only work for me if I'm already invested.