[ SECRET POST #3317 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3317 ⌋

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

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[D.Gray-man - Miranda Lotto]


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[The Thick of It]


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[Golden Kamui]


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(The Lost Boys)


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[Marble Hornets/troyhasacamera]


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[@midnight with Chris Hardwick]



















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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

very slightly related: I reply to all the comments I get so the commenter knows I saw it & appreciated it, but I'm always worried this just makes me seem desperate or something. :/ I don't like adding to my comment base bc I don't actually get that many but I also don't want to make my commenters feel ignored?

[(Anonymous)]

It doesn't!

At least for me, it makes you seem approachable and that's always a good thing imo.

[tabaqui]

Yup. If people took the time to say 'i liked this!' then I want to take the time to say 'thanks'! I think it's a good thing.

[(Anonymous)]

Not gonna lie, whenever I see an author doing that it just seems more desperate than polite.

Personally I think it's better to thank the readers in an authors note like, "Thanks for all the support!" Or something like that.

Leave your replies for whenever you have something to add or questions to answer.

[(Anonymous)]

Personally I think it's better to thank the readers in an authors note like, "Thanks for all the support!"

One more example of how you really can't please everybody. I HATE it when authors thank readers in authors' notes, especially when the notes appear between chapters of the fic. It throws me out of the story, and it also makes me feel as though the author's tooting their own horn a bit too blatantly. I'd far rather any thank yous from the author appear in the comments section, where I can avoid them if I want.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm another one of those people who prefers that authors write a general "thanks for the support" or "thanks for the reviews" in their notes.

[(Anonymous)]

yeah, I don't like those notes either.

(tangent now) a lot of it is personal preference, but! this wankery around inflated comments?

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

a lot of it is personal preference, but! this wankery around inflated comments?

It's such a Machiavellian perspective!

I will say, there was one time I was annoyed to open a fic with 26 comments only to discover that it wasn't a decent-to-good fic with 13 to 26 comment threads, but an abysmal fic with 2 comment threads, the longer of which was the author and a super-enthusiastic reader analyzing the fic in exhaustive detail. But even then, I was much less annoyed at the author than I was at AO3 for displaying the number of comments rather than the number of comment threads. And I certainly wasn't so paranoid as to imagine that the author was engaging in the conversation for some devious purpose!

[(Anonymous)]

Not gonna lie, I think your idea's daft. Individual comments, many of which in my experience can be detailed (I had one constant reader who would do into three comment boxes :-) - deserve individual acknowledgement.

[(Anonymous)]

I think this is a nice thing to do. I don't see it as "desperate" at all, I see it as kind and appreciative. Please don't stop!

I don't understand the place that people who do see it as "desperate" or a sneaky way of inflating comment count are coming from AT ALL, and I'm really grateful my brain doesn't work that way because it seems like a really nasty way to see the world.

[(Anonymous)]

Especially because there is absolutely nothing sneaky about it at all! Everyone who opens the fic can see see whether the author responds to comments. (I think this especially bothers me because I have had some really nice comment threads that have come from responding to comments, and even made some fandom friends with people who have likeminded interests and perspectives that way, and seeing how antisocial the mindsets of some in fandom are about this process is downright depressing.)

[(Anonymous)]

DA

I don't understand the place that people who do see it as "desperate" or a sneaky way of inflating comment count are coming from AT ALL

They're jealous assholes who figure that if anyone else is getting a lot of comments, they must be "cheating" somehow. Nobody leaves THEM comments!