The engagement a fic is already getting influences me too. I'll comment on more popular fics if there's something I really want to say, but if I have nothing of substance on my mind I'll just leave a kudos and be on my way. On rarepair fics with little engagement, I may sit there for twenty minutes thinking of things to say because I want to encourage the authors of fics I like. They might even write more just because there's that one person leaving thought-out comments on their work.
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The engagement a fic is already getting influences me too. I'll comment on more popular fics if there's something I really want to say, but if I have nothing of substance on my mind I'll just leave a kudos and be on my way. On rarepair fics with little engagement, I may sit there for twenty minutes thinking of things to say because I want to encourage the authors of fics I like. They might even write more just because there's that one person leaving thought-out comments on their work.