podfic feedback: how (when, why) do you do it?

[lomedet]

Amplirecathon is making me think about podfic, feedback, and me. Or, more accurately, about how much I love podfic and how that love is in no way represented by the amount of feedback (read: very, very little) I have left for podfic readers or the authors of stories I have discovered through podfic.

My process for listening to podfic goes something like this: I download a story from the archive or from a link on a podfic community. I close the download tab. I load the story on to my ipod. Then, hours or days later, I listen to the story as I'm riding on or waiting for a bus. Or maybe doing dishes or folding laundry. In any event, I listen to the story when I am far away from my computer, and even if I'm not physically so far away from my computer, I've already clicked away from or closed the page which tells me where I can leave feedback for the author or the reader. And I am lazy, so I don't usually think about going back to look for it when I have the opportunity.

I am contrasting this process with that of reading fanfic, where if I am moved by a story when I finish it, I can click a button and let the author know how I feel right then and there.

So, I want to know: what do y'all do? Have you come up with a successful strategy for leaving feedback that doesn't feel unduly labor-intensive? Have you given up on direct feedback in favor of recs? If you do go back and leave podfic feedback, does it feel strange to do so at a remove from your immediate response? Am I missing something totally obvious that will make my feedback-leaving life ten times easier?

Comments

[lian]

good idea. fwiw, I find myself in a bind over the amplificathon fics. I can't know if the readers track their reveal posts, and I doubt anyone the comm's readers rarely come back to check for (interesting) feedback, so where should I leave it? :/

Is there a kind of, er, etiquette for that? Most authors don't have emails in their profiles either, so it's not as if i can always mail it either.

[winkingstar]

Well, I can't speak for everyone, of course, but for my own podfics, I track all the posts I make to various comms. I figure that if I want the feedback, I should keep track of it.

Also, as an archivist at jinjurly's audiofic archive, I try to be thoughtful about choosing which post to link to on the archive entry. The default option is the amplificathon entry, but if the reader has a clear preference for one main post, I'll link to that one. So, for instance, I know a few readers who post to various comms but always link back to an entry on their own journal, and in that case I have the archive entry link to the reader's personal entry. I do this without really thinking about it, though, so I don't what the other archivists do. I can bring it up to the group, though, because I feel we should be consistent about that.

Er, short answer: check the feedback link on the archive entry. :)

[winkingstar]

You can also PM the reader or leave a comment on one of their more recent posts. As long as you specify what you're feedbacking, I think that feedback anywhere would make the reader happy.