[ SECRET POST #2749 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2749 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 073 secrets from Secret Submission Post #393.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 1 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

But some people aren't reading fic to interact. They just want to passively enjoy something without the same knot of social obligation and expectation as RL. For all the people who do review there will be some who don't for one reason or the other, and that's ok. You say feedback isn't about owing, but you are strongly implying you feel authors are owed the interaction and sharing of feedback.

It's good that you review, but the problem with what you're saying is that you're pushing your own way of doing fandom onto other people. Just because you like and want to review on every fic you read doesn't mean someone else does or has to. Just because someone reviews doesn't make them a better fan or more worthy of reading the fic.

And to be honest that's kind of an awful attitude to have: to flounce and completely snub people just because they didn't review and feel completely justified. Maybe they didn't give you the review you feel they owed you, but they might have spread the word about your fic to other people, either by reccing it or having it in their favorites so where more people could find it, who read it and possibly reviewed it.

[crunchysunrises]

I was more or less with you right up until the end... when you started pushing YOUR way of doing fandom on the previous anon.

It's fine that you don't want to leave reviews. And it's fine that the other anon does. But neither the previous anon nor any other writer owe you or any other non-reviewing reader any consideration of your feelings when the writers get frustrated and pull their fics since, as you yourself have declared, you don't believe that there's any "knot of social obligation" or "expectation" between fic writers and readers.

Leaving reviews may not make you, in your words, "a better fan or more worthy of reading the fic" but it certainly makes the author more aware of you and your preferences. I can honestly say that I give far more consideration to people who leave comments than people that I don't even know exist... and no, hypothetical reccing or favoriting don't enter into the equation because they could just as easily not being doing those things.