[ SECRET POST #4544 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4544 ⌋

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Comments

[(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.