[ SECRET POST #2679 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2679 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I feel your pain. I wish I could undo pm's and take back kudos, too.

I give out kudos to encourage the author, but when I end up disappointed with the story, not only do I wish I could take them back, I am amazingly glad that I hold comments to the end.

Oh well. You could always write a retraction. /jk

[fingalsanteater]

I don't get this. If you enjoyed a fic, you enjoyed a fic. Even if you ended up disappointed, you got enjoyment out of some part of that fic. Is it really such a horrible thing to let kudos stand? Obviously you were enjoying the fic enough at the time to give the kudos, so why begrudge the author the satisfaction that comes from knowing you enjoyed some part of their work? It's petty.

[(Anonymous)]

My thoughts exactly.

[(Anonymous)]

That depends on just how much I dislike what the fic eventually did... and whether I was logged in. I know it's a stupid thing to worry about, but I don't like the idea of being on the record as liking a fic I have come to strongly dislike.

[fingalsanteater]

on the record

It's not that big a deal, seriously. If it bothers you that much, leave a comment saying you really enjoyed the fic for the most part, but [this thing] didn't quite sit well with you and subsequently ruined your enjoyment.

[(Anonymous)]

For example, a fic starts out fun and then devolves into misogyny (most often) or slight bigotry and/or homophobia... I wish I could cut and run. Decidedly. And I disagree that it's petty. I don't want to be associated with that kind of crap, but you can't always tell at the beginning.

[fingalsanteater]

Mm, true. I'll give you that. I wouldn't want to be associated with any of that either. I guess I've never run into an occasion where a fic went off the rails in that way before.

[(Anonymous)]

You're lucky, then. I've run into so many that started great and went places I did not expect.

My most vivid memory is a fic that started as a fantastic surreal comedy and ended up as an explicit incest threesome, just out of nowhere. I was so sad because I wanted to be able to leave glowing a review on it and tell everybody else how great it was, but the swift about turn was too much for me.

Homophobia is another big one. I find this in a lot of slash fics. They start promising, build up agreeable tension, then suddenly throw in a shockingly homophobic clunker or two half-way through.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm the same as you, anon. Sometimes if I want to encourage a fic that I don't want to be "seen" kudos-ing I open the fic in another browser and leave anon kudos.
It's stupid, I know, but what can I say.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm the opposite. I'm self conscious so I try to improve. I reblog unseemly staff on tumblr that I like, leave comments and kudos on bad fics which I perhaps enjoyed only because of rare fandoms or ships. It's liberating.

[beverlykatz]

I've had that knee-jerk reaction a couple of times. It's not so much that I want to retract the sentiment, as... sort of regretting my preemptive show of appreciation? This is partially because of the way I read on AO3: check out the first paragraph to see if it seems good/okay, and if it does, kudos and download the PDF so I can read it during any down time I have during the day. Of course, sometimes this means I end up getting crummy fics. No big deal, just delete the file and move on, but I've read one or two things that were so bad I really regret the kudos. (There was one where the author, completely out of the blue, said some really awful/creepy things about one of the characters in the end note. DNW. D:)

[(Anonymous)]

Note that I said I leave kudos for encouragement... For me that means that the fic isn't the best, but a good effort. I appreciate that writing is difficult and a fic doesn't have to be the best writing ever. It's only when a fic becomes something I object to that I want to remove my kudos.

For fic I really enjoy, I leave comments. Kudos for encouragement, comments for love.

[badass_tiger]

I usually hold out on comments until the story is finished too. The one time I didn't and commented before the story was finished, the story had a terrible resolution. I felt bad for not continuing to comment though, so I just left a 'Thank you for sharing this story' and went to ponder how some authors who are really good at long, drawn-out tension really need to work on their endings.