[ SECRET POST #7047 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #7047 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

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Transcript by OP

[fscom]

I get sad when I am the only comment that doesn't get a reply.

Normally I don't care, but if everyone gets one but me? Yeah that gets to me.

Probably because I have this problem irl where I seem to be invisible or easily forgotten so it feeds into that.

[kaijinscendre]

:O I hope it wasn't me. I try to reply to everyone at least once.😮‍💨

[iff_and_xor]

This is part of why I mostly stopped making threads in GC here. I feel like I should reply to all of the responses, but I don’t have much to say about many of them.

[(Anonymous)]

if you mean on fic, OP, let me break it down for ya from the author's side.

sometimes I post and immediately forget I did, so any comments are at the whim of how I feel on a given day
sometimes I post and get so many comments I can't keep up and can't reply
sometimes I post and get zero comments so when one comes in months/years later, it's at the whim of how I feel today
sometimes I get self-conscious that replying to every comment "inflates the comment count" and stop replying
sometimes I just don't feel like replying
sometimes I don't get a notif
sometimes I can't find a response to "good fic I liked it"
sometimes I get so in my own head that my fic is bad and any comment is patronizing so I don't call attention to it
sometimes I swear I'm going to reply and next thing I know it's 2 months later

It's almost literally NEVER you. It's how the author handles comments, and can vary wildly between fics depending on how we feel about any or all of our fic.

Mild tangent based on one point here

[pengilly]

sometimes I get self-conscious that replying to every comment "inflates the comment count" and stop replying

While I do get feeling self-conscious about replying to multiple substantive comments with nothing more than "Thank you for reading", I hate that the attitude that authors shouldn't reply to comments in general after an arbitrary point has gotten so pervasive.

Are "stats" really that critical to some people's decision to click into a fic to the point that someone will feel catfished if half of them are from an author? There are things way more important to me in my decision to engage with a fic, like quality tagging and a concise, engaging summary.

Even if every comment isn't an original one from a new reader, it just means there's a personable author behind the screen.

[(Anonymous)]

Same. I try to respond to any that don't have a reply, but sometimes I'm so far away from the topic that I have nothing to say. :(

[(Anonymous)]

I get sad when my secret is the only one without comments.

[(Anonymous)]

Me too :(