Yeah, like, I know I said I didn't want to make this observation/confusion of mine into a call to action, but I did actually adapt it a little to make a post offering copying and pasting nice things you were saying anyway into AO3 comments (or tags on reblogs, replies to posts, etc.) where the creator could see them, or leaving a comment on AO3 as well as/instead of enthusing about it to them in conversations in other fandom spaces, because it's nice to re-visit the comments on the work itself where it is posted, because I do think that this just genuinely hasn't occurred to a lot of people as an option before now.
Also, like, I am not immune to squeeing at length somewhere the author can't see and then forgetting to comment! I have a huge tag on my Tumblr where I was liveblogging my reaction to a fic and then I forgot to comment on it until years down the line, even after the author had been linked to the posts and reblogged to say they were really happy seeing that I loved it so much and what I had to say about it. Like... complete brain fart there, and I do not know why I didn't comment at the time. But, I guess, I was genuinely mortified when I went back to reread it and saw that I had never commented? Which, I think, might not always be a universal reaction from what I am gathering about the current commenting/reacting culture.
I don't think people have to alter what they're doing if they really don't want to, but my (perhaps misguided) belief is that most people would want to know if there was a way they could make people happier and enrich their fandom experience without going to much additional trouble beyond stuff they were already doing, and the only reason they aren't doing the thing I believe to be common sense is because it's less commonly understood than I imagined, so hopefully it is received in that spirit.
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Date: 2023-03-13 08:08 pm (UTC)Also, like, I am not immune to squeeing at length somewhere the author can't see and then forgetting to comment! I have a huge tag on my Tumblr where I was liveblogging my reaction to a fic and then I forgot to comment on it until years down the line, even after the author had been linked to the posts and reblogged to say they were really happy seeing that I loved it so much and what I had to say about it. Like... complete brain fart there, and I do not know why I didn't comment at the time. But, I guess, I was genuinely mortified when I went back to reread it and saw that I had never commented? Which, I think, might not always be a universal reaction from what I am gathering about the current commenting/reacting culture.
I don't think people have to alter what they're doing if they really don't want to, but my (perhaps misguided) belief is that most people would want to know if there was a way they could make people happier and enrich their fandom experience without going to much additional trouble beyond stuff they were already doing, and the only reason they aren't doing the thing I believe to be common sense is because it's less commonly understood than I imagined, so hopefully it is received in that spirit.