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Apr. 12th, 2019 06:35 pm
A note on commenting
There's not much that I miss about Tumblr, but one of those few things is the ability to just 'like' a post and move on. Because sometimes you just don't have anything you want to add to it or say about it or it's too personal to reblog but you just want to let the OP know that you saw their post and liked it or are supportive of them.
AO3 has the same function for fics, where you can just leave a 'kudos' and you don't have to comment to let the author know you liked their fic.
But there's no way (that I've seen) to do that on DW. So I'm gonna set up my own system here: if you like one of my posts or just want to let me know that you saw it, but you don't have anything in particular you want to say about it, you can just leave a comment with a <3 or !!! or some emoji or reaction gif or whatever. I will still be thrilled and love it (and probably respond with an emoji of my own).
(As a writer, I LOVE getting comments because I love seeing what parts of my fics people like and it helps me to know if my characterizations work. But as a reader, I know that sometimes you just don't have it in you to write anything. And that's okay! I just want to make it clear that I am totally okay if you want to just do a drive-by comment on any of my posts here.)
(I will admit that this partly came about because sometimes I read others' Sunday Six snippets and I like them but don't have anything in particular to say about them so I end up...not saying anything at all because I just think to myself 'I'll come back to this later when I've thought of something' and then I never do. So, sorry to all the writers whose Sunday Six snippets I read and liked and never commented on.)
AO3 has the same function for fics, where you can just leave a 'kudos' and you don't have to comment to let the author know you liked their fic.
But there's no way (that I've seen) to do that on DW. So I'm gonna set up my own system here: if you like one of my posts or just want to let me know that you saw it, but you don't have anything in particular you want to say about it, you can just leave a comment with a <3 or !!! or some emoji or reaction gif or whatever. I will still be thrilled and love it (and probably respond with an emoji of my own).
(As a writer, I LOVE getting comments because I love seeing what parts of my fics people like and it helps me to know if my characterizations work. But as a reader, I know that sometimes you just don't have it in you to write anything. And that's okay! I just want to make it clear that I am totally okay if you want to just do a drive-by comment on any of my posts here.)
(I will admit that this partly came about because sometimes I read others' Sunday Six snippets and I like them but don't have anything in particular to say about them so I end up...not saying anything at all because I just think to myself 'I'll come back to this later when I've thought of something' and then I never do. So, sorry to all the writers whose Sunday Six snippets I read and liked and never commented on.)
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