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Re: FILL COMMENTING CHALLENGE.

[(Anonymous)]

I agree. While more kudos doesn't necessarily equal a good fic, I'm usually suspicious of fics that have, say, double the amount of comments than kudos. Though, in my experience, it's not so much that the fic is terrible or offensive, just that the author is having a long conversation in the comments with a reader.

But I come from the days of LJ fandom where people wouldn't respond to reviews on their fics because it looked like you were inflating your comment count to make your fic seem more popular. So I might be biased.

Re: FILL COMMENTING CHALLENGE.

[(Anonymous)]

IDK. I was in LJ fandom, and in my corner of the Internet it was really common and considered polite for people to respond, long conversations were common, and the idea that this was inflating comments to make yourself look popular was considered ridiculous. There's no one norm, but not everyone will jump straight to that conclusion.

Re: FILL COMMENTING CHALLENGE.

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe it was just the fandoms I was in, since it was a pretty common faux-pax.

Re: FILL COMMENTING CHALLENGE.

[(Anonymous)]

SA

That was supposed to be faux pas not faux pax. That's what I get for staying up so late. Whoops.

Re: FILL COMMENTING CHALLENGE.

[(Anonymous)]

this must be really different sections of fandom lj, that we were in, coz i have been on lj for 15 years, and i never saw the comments counts the way you do!?
in my particular fandoms, lots of comments to fics just meant, you and the author or the other readers we chatting with each other...