[ SECRET POST #7047 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #7047 ⌋

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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.

Re: Mild tangent based on one point here

[(Anonymous)]

I mean, you're not wrong! I've seen it both ways - rando 1 says it's inflating the comment count to make people click on it, rando 2 says nah and it's a silly thing to get bent out of shape over. I usually don't care but you can't always help that creeping thought in the back of your head.

Re: Mild tangent based on one point here

[pengilly]

ヾ(・ω・')ノヾ( ́・ω・)ノ ゙ I get the feeling of constantly worrying about others' judgment, my thought weasels just nag me about different things, lol.

But personally, I think anyone who sees it as any kind of deliberate trickery on the part of the author needs to get over themselves and find a better metric to judge fics by.

Like, no, rando 1, the author isn't "making" anyone click on their fic. You're choosing to click into fics primarily based on a metric that has little to do with anything but the extent of discussion, which can be positive or negative. You don't know if those twenty comments are active readers making thoughtful analyses and predictions, a bunch of kids spamming generic praise and rudely demanding updates, or nitpickers who thought the grammar, characterization, and premise were so atrocious they had to tell the author.