I find that with a few close LJ friends, I don't comment on their fic because I tell them elsewhere (in person, MSN, email, etc) that all of their fic is great, so there's no need to comment on it OL. Unless they write something OMFG AMAZING or something that makes me double-take with its crappiness, I won't comment.
I'm not really an MSN or email person so I usually stick to livejournal with my comments. However, for the MSN inclined I can totally see why that would be of advantage.
Okay, the use of LJToys to effectively "spy" on how many people read your stories annoys me. Primarily because I only comment on a story if I really like it. It's like the old saying, "if you have nothing nice to say, don't say anything at all." If I read something and it's "meh," then the author doesn't really need to know that. Because 9 times out of 10, when someone says "leave me feedback," they mean, "tell me this was brilliant and you loved it." No one wants to hear, "Well, this didn't do it for me and your characterization felt off." So, if people are cyberlurking and then SEEING that X, Y, and Z person read but didn't comment, it defeats the purpose of me keeping my mouth shut about what I thought.
I find LJToys very creepy. And I'm glad I don't have a paid account so I can't even get tempted. Then again, my journal is really boring. I don't really need to know whether people read my meta or my random picturespams if they don't feel like commenting.
Um, I didn't bother to add it to the mood theme thing: too complicated and I'm shallow, I wanted to keep my pretty mood themes anyway. I added it to the sidebar - depending on your layout, you just need a free text box, the blurb section or someting like that to cut and paste the code. I'm just saying... ;-)
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