[ SECRET POST #4544 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4544 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

... and yet, I can assure you that, as an author, even keysmash comments are welcome and appreciated.

[(Anonymous)]

this is what i don't get: what makes a keysmash comment, or an "I liked this!", preferable to a kudos? Or even difference from a kudos in any substantial way?

[rosehiptea]

I think it's because they take more time and show more enthusiasm. But as an author I think leaving a kudos and no comment is absolutely fine if that's what the reader wants to do. (When I read I almost always leave a comment, but that's what I want to do.)

That said I've never seen a positive comment that I thought "sounded stupid" and I don't think readers should be concerned about that at all.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

The difference is getting an unexpected and extremely rare email with the subject line "[AO3} Comment on..." and feeling a rush of excitement and joy that someone liked your story so much that leaving kudos wasn't enough. They couldn't stop there. They simply had to scroll down and type some squee or another in a box below. Amazing. Who does that? Almost no one does that. It's a rare gift and a treat.

[(Anonymous)]

Exactly this.

[(Anonymous)]

This right here is why I always do my utmost to leave a comment, even if it's just an "I really liked it!" or "Thanks for sharing, it's really cute"

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you for this!

[jadeile]

This times million! It's the best possible email to receive. It doesn't matter if there is an essay of intelligent commentary on my fic in there, or a simple "Good chap"; both are loved to bits.

[venusundae]

wew can relate

i feel goofy leaving comments a lot too but remembering this feeling myself pushes me to even when sometimes all i can think of is "i love this so much!"

[(Anonymous)]

You might not feel there's a difference, and that's fine. Personally, I appreciate that someone went through the effort to leave a comment, even brief one. Not many people do these days.

[(Anonymous)]

keysmash comment gives you an actual sense of a reader's emotional reaction, whereas the kudos button is....literally a button. it just feels more perfunctory. and sure, you can say "it's not perfunctory, I kudos stuff because I really love it!

But there's no way on the author's end to tell that apart from someone who just kudos everything they don't hate.

"LSDkngsdgn I CAN't WORDS, but I ;iked this a lot, sob [funny reaction gif of either beaming or sobbing in glass case of emotion or just elmo freaking out]" actually feels like a person came up to tell me they had an emotional reaction, whereas kudos feels like, idk, like someone polled a game show audience and some people hit the green light. there's no individuality or context or connection.

Don't get me wrong, I don't hate kudos, and I'm not the most consistent at giving comments either, I know it's hard sometimes. But there's literally no difference to me between an email that says "five people left kudos on X" and "twenty-five people left kudos on X", it's still just a bunch of vaguely positive greenlights. It doesn't make me happy, it just makes me go, "oh yeah that sure was a fic I wrote." whereas any comment is treasured because someone took the time to TELL ME how they feel.

[(Anonymous)]

+1

[(Anonymous)]

what if you could set it up so that you got an email for every individual kudos

[(Anonymous)]

That already happens.

But as others have said, it's seeing that someone took the time to articulate a comment (even if the comment isn't very articulate) that is feels like such a gift.

[(Anonymous)]

the comment said "there's literally no difference to me between an email that says 'five people left kudos on X' and 'twenty-five people left kudos on X'"

so that would no longer be the case if you instead got five or twenty five emails respectively

therefore solving the number-of-emails problem

[(Anonymous)]

then I WOULD hate them, because they'd be spam

[(Anonymous)]

the problem isn't Number of Emails, it's the fact that the content of "you got kudos" is purely quantitative and not at all qualitative

[(Anonymous)]

Honestly, getting an email that someone left me a kudos gives me the same warm fuzzies as a comment, tbh.

[(Anonymous)]

I think there's definitely a quantity thing at play here too. As someone who only really posts in nearly-non-existent fandoms and/or for rair pairs, five people leaving kudos would feel like winning the lottery.

That said, 100% agree that nothing beats a good flaily comment. That someone took the time to articulate their inarticulacy, even inarticulately, means a LOT.

[(Anonymous)]

That someone took the time to articulate their inarticulacy, even inarticulately, means a LOT.
THIS THIS THIS

[mishey22]

Yes, this.

Kudos are nice, they make me happy, but a comment...especially from someone I don't personally know? That's AMAZING.

I've never seen a comment that I thought sounded stupid.

[(Anonymous)]

IME the only comments that sound stupid are the ones that either bash the ship you're writing, or bash another ship to make the one you're writing look better (when, surprise! author happens to be a multishipper and actually likes both)
Just... don't be an asshole and everything should be fine!

[tabaqui]

THIS! All of this.