[ SECRET POST #2321 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2321 ⌋

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Notes:

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Comments

Re: agree 100%

[(Anonymous)]

I note that some comments below are completely missing the point of why one may regret giving a kudo for fics which one ends up being disappointed in for any reason.

You seem to forget that:

1) a lot of people use the number of kudos as recommendations, just like when purchasing from amazon.com - the higher the kudos count, the better the fic should be. Well, in theory anyway

2) WIPs, by their very nature, tend to collect more comments and kudos than fics posted in their entirety once complete. Regardless of length. And writers do tend to judge their readers appreciation based on the number of kudos. It's a very unreliable parameter, but still.

As a result, a lot of mediocre stories originally posted as WIPs end up with a huge number of kudos, completely out of proportion with stories posted only once complete, and therefore have a much greater chance of being read, which is really discouraging for the better and more considerate writers who can easily end up leaving the fandom or even worse, stop writing altogether.

So yes, misallocated kudos do matter.

3) Any kudo may represent anywhere between 10 to 200 happy readers, so any +1 or -1 kudo does count. Don't forget that most people do not leave kudos or comments: you just have to check the hits count to verify this in case you have not already noticed. But there is no way to tell if readers do not leave kudos because they
- did not like the story
- already left a kudo in a previous chapter (this happens to me more than half the time with multi-chaptered fics: when I try to leave a kudo, AO3 tells me I already did)
- think they already left a kudo (but are mistaken)
- were too busy
- were wary of leaving a kudo when the author could spring a horrible surprise on them in the very next chapter
- or a variant of the above: would love to encourage a new writer, but since they are unfamiliar with said writer, cannot tell if they belong to the group that like to surprise their readers with unexpected pairing or triggers and prefer to skip to another writer that they already trust.

All of the above reasons is why any kudo does matter and why I recommend only leaving anon kudos and only on completed stories.