"Thank You"?

[gnatkip]

I have a question. You post a fic / art / vid / other fan work, and in response, you receive a positive comment that includes the word "Thanks." Or "Thanks for sharing." I'm not talking about the recipients of gifts thanking you for crafting something expressly for them; I'm just talking about comments from people in general

Comments

[cathexys]

I stumbled upon the very same thing (and the prescriptive tone of the post!). I'm annoyed at the entire gift metaphor debates in fandom, but I still say thanks for sharing and don't find anything wrong with it...

[gnatkip]

I'm glad to hear that at least among my flist, I'm not alone in liking to say and hear thanks. I was starting to feel pretty sensitive about it, hoping I wasn't going around unwittingly weirding people out with it.

I almost said something about gift economy in the post, but yeah, I didn't really know where I was going with it. Something about how even if fandom should agree that there's something gift-ish in there somewhere, we seem to have trouble agreeing just what the gift IS.

[cathexys]

Well, when challenged, she kept on saying it made *her* uncomfortable because it took her line for responding to comment. That neither struck me as a good enough reason nor universal...

see prescriptive tone issues :)

[gnatkip]

"even if fandom should agree"

Er, by that I absolutely did not mean should as in "ought to agree", but as in "happens to agree".

[cathexys]

I got you.

i'm also of the "try to read what your interlocutor means rather than skipping to worst case scenario school..which is why i'd never be able to see thank you as condescending...tsk..