sick burns on my beats, god

[musesfool]

Both yesterday and today, the alt-text on Dinosaur Comics has cracked me up. If I ever get a dog of my own, I might have to seriously consider naming it Rex Luthor.

Last night, mousapelli told me they were having crazy thunderstorms where she was, and that they were likely headed in my direction. Smash cut to sometime after 1 am and being woken up by HUGE

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[chicklet_girl]

I still marvel at people who don't like kudos, because they don't seem to have realized that it's largely kudos or nothing at all, at least in my experience. I got a kudo on a Kitchen Confidential ficlet I posted on my LJ in 2005 -- literally nobody would have read that ficlet if I hadn't posted it on AO3, let alone left any feedback.

[musesfool]

they don't seem to have realized that it's largely kudos or nothing at all,

*nod nod*

Exactly.

I think the people who routinely get 50 comments a story are the people who will still get them, regardless, but most of us are not in that category, and I don't think those five kudos I got on a story that otherwise got 3 comments would have been comments had kudos not existed. At least, I've seen nothing that makes me believe that would be the case in my own experience.

[trinity_clare]

Dear people who hate kudos: Kudos does not subtract from the possible number of comments. The people who use kudos would probably not comment at all.

I especially love to use kudos when I'm reading fic that was posted a long time ago (and the author has probably moved on), or when I discover an author and read through everything they've ever written in one afternoon (because it's hard to come up with that many original things to say in a comment).

I have now written the word kudos so many time that it doesn't look like a word anymore.

[musesfool]

The people who use kudos would probably not comment at all.

I think, in general, this is true.

I do use them, but generally in places where I probably wouldn't have left a comment if that was the only option. I still leave comments where I generally would have before kudos were implemented.

I especially love to use kudos when I'm reading fic that was posted a long time ago (and the author has probably moved on), or when I discover an author and read through everything they've ever written in one afternoon (because it's hard to come up with that many original things to say in a comment).

I think a lot of people use them that way. This weekend, I got a clutch of kudos on a bunch of old stuff - all from 'guest' so I have no way of knowing if that was one person going through my back-catalog or a bunch of people - but it certainly made my weekend brighter!