A Question for Readers - Do You Comment?

[glennagirl.livejournal.com]

[Poll #1893608]

Comments

[carabele.livejournal.com]

At least Kudos gives a writer some encouragement that their fic is being read.

But see this is like a conflicting set of ideas:
~ Writers want to know their stories are being read, so leave kudos to encourage...
~ But their stories could be being read and actually disliked...

Here's the thing: though it's really difficult (believe me, I know) writers on the whole need to develop tough skins and not expect encouragement at every turn.

Hope that doesn't sound callous, but it was a lesson I had to learn myself. Still have problems with it now and again, I admit, but I just think generic kudos really aren't something that is worth the effort.

[mrua7.livejournal.com]

But see this is like a conflicting set of ideas:
~ Writers want to know their stories are being read, so leave kudos to encourage...
~ But their stories could be being read and actually disliked...

You're missing the point. If you don't like a story, you don't comment or don't leave Kudos. It's as simple as that.

I'm suggesting the use of Kudos, for those people who read a story, like it, but have nothing to say.

Leaving Kudos simply tells a writer their story has been read, and someone having taken the time to give a Kudos, tells the writer the story was read and liked. That to me is encouragement, and there's nothing wrong with that.

It's comparable to hitting the :"Like": option on Facebook. You don't leave a comment, but you like the post you just read. If you don't then you do nothing. That's not very complicated...

[carabele.livejournal.com]

I don't really do the "Like" thing either. [chuckle]

So I just have a different mindset.

[mrua7.livejournal.com]

Chuckle. :D