[ 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]



















Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 037 secrets from Secret Submission Post #474.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I'm much more likely to comment if the author replies to comments, but sometimes I leave a comment anyway. I just wonder if the author even reads them, and suspect that I'm yelling into a void.

[(Anonymous)]

Of course they read them. They just don't have anything to say to you.

[(Anonymous)]

Has it ever occured to you that authors feel this exact same way? Only it's about a million times worse for them because they're actually putting themselves and their work out there.

Can you imagine putting your heart into something and then posting it online to be judged by dozens, if not hundreds, if not thousands. Can you imagine what it would be like to wait for responses that just never come? To spend days and weeks on something and to get a shitload of half-hearted kudos that could mean anything from 'not my cup of tea but i appreciate the effort you put into it' to 'this was good' and but absolutely no comments. Or just one or two that state things like 'i liked it" or "good fic"?

It's fine if someone doesn't leave a comment because they didn't enjoy the story. But it's not fine when someone does enjoy it and chooses not to because they're too lazy (but they sure as heck weren't too lazy to read it) or because, apparently, the author didn't comment back, for reasons that you don't even know about.

Authors always read their comments, because it's their hard work being discussed/judged/etc. They may not always respond, but they will read it.

I read a lot of fanfiction and I always comment on the ones I enjoyed. I don't expect to be responded to, either, because I don't write comments for recognition, I write them because I understand how much effort the author put into the story, and because I appreciate them for what they do, and because I'm thankful that they're sharing their stories with us.

It's common sense, and common decency.

[(Anonymous)]

You are a good person and I wish more people were like you.

[(Anonymous)]

Seeing as many readers are also writers, I'm sure they know better than you what's like to put something out here.

But they also are in the other side as readers and that's why many of them appreciate kudos and even those short comments you scorn, because being the reader who's dismissed by the author also sucks.

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"Authors always read their comments, because it's their hard work being discussed/judged/etc. They may not always respond, but they will read it."

LOL, are you new? Because I know authors who wish to turn off the option of receiving comments, other than only care about comments on their most recent work/fandom, others that only like some kind of comments and despite the others, etc.

Authors aren't some kind of perfect hardworking monolith, they're people with different opinions. There's no need to fight for them, because they have their own opinions and they can voice them, and those opinions are just as valid as their reader's opinions.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

Yes, I can imagine, because I write fic and post it to AO3, too. And I always reply to all of my comments, because I want the commenter to know how much I appreciate the effort they put into actually commenting.

When I comment on fic I don't expect an answer, and I don't feel particularly bad when I don't get a reply, although my comments do tend to be in-depth.

But if I see a dozen comments with no replies, I don't feel bad about not commenting. And I'm sorry, but you didn't change my mind about that.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

Has it ever occured to you that authors feel this exact same way?

Has it ever occurred to you that writers and readers are not mutually exclusive sets?

Jeez. Also, no, authors don't always read their comments. I've seen some of them confess anonymously to not reading them.