I keep missing the fact that con crit is the subject of perennial debate; my flist just doesn't seem to go on about it all that much. Huh.

That said, your post, for the most part, nails most of my feelings about the issue. A fic and its author have to be willing the time and effort that concrit involves, and those are both quantities that can be really difficult to discern.

So while I'm uncomfortable with your criterion of when I like the author in question, not just as an author, but as a person - because how can we *know* a person on LJ??? And, secondly, it raises all my hackles about the high value of socializing versus fic-quality - I do understand where you're coming from.