[ SECRET POST #6406 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6406 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

This is what bugs me about the "please commment" requests and arguments that writers need comments as part of the fandom economy. The people making these requests and arguments don't want "comments" or "feedback," they want praise and compliments and positive reinforcement. Which is fine, everyone wants those things. But call it like it is.

[(Anonymous)]

100% this.

[(Anonymous)]

We need to bring back the word "egoboo".

[(Anonymous)]

Ok so what if they do want praise? Why do you act like they kicked down your door and put a gun to your head?
Its an easy to ignore request - if you feel that against it, don't comment and pretend to have a life to move on with.

[(Anonymous)]

If there's nothing wrong with asking only for praise, why don't they explicitly do that?What's stopping them?

[(Anonymous)]

social conventions

[(Anonymous)]

Why bother with that if you're doing nothing wrong? Proudly ask for praise.

Part of why readers feel "guilt tripped" about it, and part of why people keep needing to find awkward, cringey roundabout ways to make it a moral thing or "you owe the author" thing, is because people keep claiming that they're nothing wrong about straight up asking for praise then refusing to be straightforward about it and simply do that.

Own your shit. Then people who want to avoid that will avoid it, people who don't care won't, and everybody can stop all this "readers are bad if you don't" bs and simply be like "I want validation, leave me praise" and make it about the person it's really about.

[(Anonymous)]

Why bother with that if you're doing nothing wrong?

Not sure how to tell you this but this is not really how human beings necessarily work

[(Anonymous)]

Yep, which is a pity. They have the option to choose to be upfront and solve these issues for themselves, because trying to have it both ways by putting the onus on everyone else to help them tiptoe around their insecurity and/or desperation for praise then getting mad when others don't agree to participate or feel manipulated, is what's causing resentment.

Can't solve it for them, unfortunately.

[(Anonymous)]

assholes like you for starters.

[(Anonymous)]

"People that purposely don't leave negative comments when they have nothing nice to say, in order to be polite, are stopping people from simply asking for praise, even if they think there's nothing wrong with doing so."

I don't follow your logic here.