[ SECRET POST #4161 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4161 ⌋

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Comments

[nightscale]

To me there's a big difference between 'I liked this, I hope you continue writing more!' and 'Update now'.

The first one is nice and encouraging, the second is just plain rude and I will never respond to those types of comments(not that I get many of those these days thankfully).

But I generally try to leave some kind of comment on a fic if I like it and always kudos if I do as well, but I'm not good at anything long-winded so it tends to more along the lines of 'I liked this! Thanks for writing.' and my responses to comments on my fic are about the same too.

I'm not very good at comments in general tbh. :P

[(Anonymous)]

No, I agree with you. I appreciate all comments because I get so few, but I can see why some people dislike MOAR comments because they definitely come across as rude if you don't know the author and know they'll understand and appreciate your sense of humor. I understand that some commenters view it as expressing their appreciation of the fic, but there's a polite way to ask someone to write more, and a rude way to ask people to write more.

It's weird that in this argument the onus to be polite now seems to fall on writers, who are now apparently supposed to gush over every comment readers deign to leave them, no matter how brief or rude. It almost seems like people manufacturing an excuse not to comment--writers are so picky and rude, I just won't comment at all so take that, writers! ... when really they almost certainly had no intention of commenting to begin with.

[nightscale]

Oh man I totally think people being demanding over fic are rude as hell, it's done for free in our spare time. But I also don't expect to get a lot of comments on my fic so any I get that aren't rude(which isn't as much anymore) I love regardless of what they are.

(My top paragraph was more that there's a difference between the two so a general 'I like this, please keep writing' isn't insulting to me).

Sorry if I made it seem I felt different, I really don't.

I think the onus is on both sides to be polite and respectful tbh, we're all nerds here bumming around in our free-time. :)

[(Anonymous)]

It's been like this since at the very least back when sporking communities were still a thing. At least once a month a (often underage) writer would find out people had been publicly mocking their fic and get understandably offended, and every single time it was used as "proof" of how sensitive and entitled the writer was and how they deserved to be mocked.

[(Anonymous)]

Seriously. Every time I see someone huffing and stomping over how writers are so ungrateful and demanding, I'm not going to comment on anything now, so how do you like that! my immediate thought is "you never commented to anything before, so how does this change anything?"