[ 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 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 ].
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Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fingalsanteater]

I don't know about everyone else, but I don't judge a fic by comment count. I use kudos count, never comment count.

If a fic has a high comment count, I assume there are conversations going on in the comments. Fics on AO3 normally have fifth or less of the amount of comments to kudos, I've noticed. So, for every five kudos, I expect to get a least one comment. If there are more comments than that, than I expect that the author replies to comments.

[hwc]

I can only speak for me but it's not that I judge other fics by comment count, but that I feel judged by other people? Maybe it's because back when I got into fic there was this huge issue about comments on fics (that was before AO3, but to give a frame of reference, do you remember how much wank AO3's announcement about implementing kudos caused?), but I feel as though readers would look at my fic's comment count, see that half of them are my replies, and then think that I tried to make it seem as though my fic is better quality than it is by inflating the comment count.

I know that many comments =/= good quality fic, but in my mind that's what other people think and I feel as though they would dismiss my fic thinking I was a self-important author trying to pass my writing off as something better than it is. (I spent my formative years in fandom and on writing boards, and I think that left me with some issues regarding comments on fic. Everything regarding reviews devolved into wank back then.)

[(Anonymous)]

So, what do you think of storys where their are a lot of comments, a lot of views, and only a few kudos.

[(Anonymous)]

I think "Hey, that creepy Yuletide guy who's obsessed with Howl's Moving Castle wrote a new story!"

[fingalsanteater]

Usually that fic appeals to a specific set of people and there is probably some conversation in the comments section between the author and commenters or commenters and other commenters. I have a few fics that have higher comment to kudos ratio because I or other people have made comments unrelated to the story, like drive-by icon love, or chitchatted with each other about the canon or fic.

I'm not going to be a dick and not engage with my readers (many of whom I talk to other places besides AO3), especially if they took the time to comment on my fic. I don't care about inflating the comment count because the comments section of a fic is to comment and respond to comments. You shouldn't have to worry about using the comments section for its intended purpose.

[(Anonymous)]

"I don't care about inflating the comment count because the comments section of a fic is to comment and respond to comments. You shouldn't have to worry about using the comments section for its intended purpose. "

yes!!!! yes this exactly!!!