Cryptic Comments

The whole point of speech and writing is to be understood. If you can't understand it it is either a load of rubbish or a twisted sense of humour.

Some people might not feel comfortable getting into a meaty critique, maybe it comes from insecurities about their level of intelligence (peoples' self image bears no correlation to their ACTUAL intelligence, usually much, much higher than they give themselves credit for). Maybe they don't want to sound too eager, or talk about their perception of your ideas in case they are wrong (to an extent, I think there is a right and wrong in percieving text), so they put a vague or generic comment. I say 'so what?', at least they read it and felt compelled to comment either way. I'd imagine with most vague comments you can gauge whether they are positive or negative. Stan's example is a strange one though. I'd definately ask for clarification on that, and if I got a similarly vague or dismissive comment back, then I might just ignore it, or tell them to go swivel.

I think my answer to 'I need to be convinced that this is a poem.' would have been - why? http://www.ukauthors.com