[ SECRET POST #2147 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2147 ⌋

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

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Comments

[badass_tiger]

While this is completely true, there are also a lot of authors who feel that if the best you can do is 'thank you', then you might not as well do it at all. It's the reason I don't leave reviews unless the fic was really incredible :/

[(Anonymous)]

Everyone says there are these authors, but I think the "if you don't leave long feedback, I'll hate and flame you!" authors are like the welfare queens of fandom. As in, they don't exist in any significant number.

It's just an excuse. Own the fact that you probably wouldn't leave feedback anyway and let the myth die already.

[(Anonymous)]

Except they do exist? I've run across authurs [yes, multiples of them] who've said they don't see the point of short 'thank you' type feedback. They don't say 'I'll flame/hate you!' but in the 'I don't really like comments that don't have any actual crit in them, so I'd appreciate if you'd add more to it than 'I love it!'

[(Anonymous)]

They exist. They show up on fanficrants periodically.

And I've seen a few secretes about that here.

And I've seen it on various authors homepages.

[(Anonymous)]

+1

[(Anonymous)]

I've heard people say this before and while I have no doubt that some writers are complete assholes who aren't happy with comments unless they praise every other word, I think those writers are rare. I read a lot of fic in a lot of different fandoms and I've never had a writer tell me my comment wasn't good enough. Every time I've left feedback, the writers have been nothing but polite in response.

[badass_tiger]

I don't mean that the writer replies rudely to specific comments. Usually it's just a general rant left on their journal or something. I guess my fansom's just unlucky, we get quite a number of them.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think there's a "lot", I think there's a vocal "few" of those. And it sucks that everyone gets tarred with the ungrateful entitled author brush when it's just a few bad apples spoiling it for everyone. Personally, I'd blacklist any authors that behaved like that, and I wouldn't comment for them. But I don't presume all authors are like that.

I do agree, though, that I'm more likely to leave comments when it's an incredible story rather than just a meh story. I can leave a comment when I actually have something to say, like what I liked/loved, but if it was just meh, I don't always want to leave a review saying, "good for you, your paragraphs were evenly spaced."

[(Anonymous)]

that I'm more likely to leave comments when it's an incredible story rather than just a meh story

maybe, just MAYBE, there's a lesson for authors to take away in this.

if they're not getting any comments, MAYBE THEIR FUCKING FIC SUCKS DONKEY ASS.