[ SECRET POST #5347 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5347 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah online settings based on sites like Tumblr and twitter have really killed the commenting side of fanfics - even if they are based in completely different sites like AO3 and ffnet.

I was thinking about this when reminiscing Livejournal days from forever ago when people commented a lot more as it was part of how LJ worked. These days people tend to consume more than they input (like with scrolling through feeds etc), which is something that has spread onto fanfiction communities.

[tabaqui]

Yeah, it was fun to chat with people about a fic in comments on LJ. That doesn't seem to happen much anymore.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not sure people commented more back on LJ tbh, like I only ever got 2-3 comments at most per fic I wrote and I wrote in a very active and bustling fandom back then. The people raking in the comments were BNF's, whereas now I can throw something up in a fandom that's active and I can get a few hundred kudos along with 20+ comments(depending on the fandom).

Anecdotal data and all but personally my feedback has gotten better in modern fandom, not worse.

[(Anonymous)]

I suppose its different for everyone - I didn't mean that everyone was guaranteed comments back in the LJ days, just that there was an environment that encouraged commenting more so than now.

That being said I suppose people using sites like AO3 have no barrier to commenting - and bigger fandoms have larger amounts of people so are more likely to comment more.

[(Anonymous)]

You could have tossed your fic onto FFN back in the day and easily gotten hundreds, thousands of "reviews", provided that you hit the right notes (tropey, multi-chapter, popular fandom & pairing). You still need to hit those notes nowadays to get hits on AO3, but now people kudo instead of comment.