Aahahahaa, okay so we were talking on Twitter about feedback; kudos vs comments and how sometimes you love a story A LOT and really WANT to comment, but don't and then never do and I discovered I'm not the only person who psyches themselves out of commenting like that. So here, have THE GUILT MEME
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I think it's a completely understandable reaction when something has a lot of comments already to go "well what new thing could I have to say" or "well this person knows this is awesome" or whatever. I know I've totally let myself off the hook for commenting if something had a huge response already. For me this meme was more about the ones that you cherish and love and KEEP going back to that you've never even sent a smoke signal up about, and in some ways it's more for ME than the author that I feel I want to reach out, because the story means so much to ME it feels wrong that I've never let them know that, you know? Even if they never respond.
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Plus, honestly, a lot of my fic would never, ever have any feedback at all if it weren't for kudos, and it's nice just getting something.
And yeah, that makes sense. If I have a really strong response to something then it does kind of feel like the author should know. I guess an extension of the "they have so many comments, mine don't matter" thing is feeling like someone else has probably already had the same reaction to a story that I did so my feelings aren't special and unique.
Yes, I secretly think I'm a huge special snowflake.
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