Yes, that's exactly it! I find it both thought-provoking and eminently frustrating, depending on my mood. The thing is, I can't imagine that any one vidder there would make any vid the same way, and so to say something like "the vidder missed because they didn't do X" with the implicit "as I would have" is kind of irrelevant. But the lines get blurry in situations like that, where there's this confluence of people with wildly varying styles.

I don't know. I think that's partly what I feel up against the wall about -- and when BNFs criticize you for not doing it the way they wanted, others tend to follow and you find yourself with a lot of people switching sides, kind of narrowing their eyes at you for not doing it "correctly." that happened to me last year and that's why I didn't vid again for over six months. It makes me wary and weary. ;-)