[ SECRET POST #3042 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3042 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Replying to reviews

[(Anonymous)]

On AO3, I almost always respond to comments, although admittedly with a variation on 'thank you, I'm glad you liked it' unless the review was in-depth or pointed out something specific that I can respond to. I always mentally halve any comment count I see because I presume most people do the same (I've realised this isn't always the case, but I still do it on autopilot). Even halving isn't always enough, I've ended up in full-blown conversations in the comments of several of my stories, so their comment-counts are all over the place. I actually sometimes have trouble ending conversations because I feel compelled to reply, and feel bad if I've left someone hanging.

I think it's fairly easy to tell if a story's comment count is being artificially inflated by comment conversations, though, just by comparing comment-count to kudo-count. If it has few kudos but lots of comments, I assume that it doesn't have many readers but at least one of those few is inclined to discuss things (this isn't always correct and tends to depend on the fandom, of course), whereas if the kudo-count is high as well, it's likely that mentally halving the comment count to allow for single replies will be accurate. Some of my stories in the bigger fandoms have respectable kudo and comment counts even despite my replies and multiple small conversations in the comments.

I don't tend to leave comments on other people's stories that much, preferring kudos because I'm pretty shy and I get uncomfortable starting conversations, but I usually expect people to respond, yes. Mostly because they usually have? I think almost all the comments I've left have been responded to by the author, even if, again, it's just with a variation on 'thanks for the review'. I mean, it's okay if the author doesn't, I'm not going to feel slighted, it's just been my experience that most people do, so I've come to expect it somewhat.