[ SECRET POST #5947 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5947 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I suspect that how we physically view fanfiction also has a hand in the change of attitude; in a desktop/laptop vs smartphone way. Smartphones are designed for with features like endless scrolling so people are mostly passing the time flicking through without much need to interact - whereas typing/mouse usage on desktop and laptop isn't as easy to skim through like a touch screen, so it makes people take in more and can give them a chance to actually think of something to comment with a higher chance to write something rather than to scroll away without a second thought.

[(Anonymous)]

I think there's probably something to this.

For me personally, though, the biggest determining factor in whether I post a comment is whether there are a lot of comments already, and how popular the pairing and fandom are. If I'm reading in a mega fandom, and I'm reading a fic with 100 comments, I don't feel that I have anything to add. If I'm reading a rare pair, or a fic with only a handful of comments, I absolutely will say something and try and express my appreciation as much as I can.

And I do think that one of the things that has happened in fandom has been that megafandoms have gotten bigger and drawn more and more of the fandom energy.

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NAYRT

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.