Yeah, I think you're right that remembering to go back to AO3 and open the fic again and write a comment (even a copy and paste job) creates at least three additional steps that could be a barrier to commenting for a lot of people. I always remind people who are getting upset about their his to kudos or hits to comments ratio that just moving on afterwards without engaging is the standard and expecting more than, like, 10% of people who actually read the fic in total (which is likely less than the number of hits and it is impossible to know by how much) are going to leave a kudos and about 1% of those people will write a comment, even a short one. Expecting a book report from even a minority slightly larger than that is a recipe for disappointment, so managing your expectations can help if you are getting discouraged by fewer people commenting or engaging as much/in the way that you'd like. Like, vidding and podficcing kind of helped me with not getting as bummed by a lack of "engagement" (which is a way of expressing this that I hate, because it calls to mind influencer culture and, like, let's not make fandom into an unpaid influencer gig).
Obviously, all that being said, I still find it very confusing that people are enthusing about things at length outside AO3, but don't necessarily twig that creators might like to see that/might like for it to be archived with the work on AO3.
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Date: 2023-03-13 06:25 pm (UTC)Obviously, all that being said, I still find it very confusing that people are enthusing about things at length outside AO3, but don't necessarily twig that creators might like to see that/might like for it to be archived with the work on AO3.