unpopular fandom opinion alert

[fahye]

I really, really dislike the AO3's Kudos function.

If I get one, all I think is 'seriously, you liked it but you couldn't be bothered to leave a tiny comment?' and if I don't get one (new most depressing thing ever: the ability to calculate the Hits:Comments ratio on a fic) all I think is 'they must really have disliked it if they couldn't even be arsed to CLICK A BUTTON EXPRESSING POSITIVE OPINION'.

I can see why people like it, but it doesn't sit right with my idea of fandom courtesy. If I like something enough to read it all the way to the end, I leave a comment.

ETA: It has been pointed out to me that in my kneejerk sulkiness I missed the fact that it has accessibility merit and also oh-man-the-server-is-dead-again merit. Both good points!

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ANYWAY. Despite that, this has been a fantastic year for Yuletide! I have been reading and bookmarking like crazy.

Comments

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

The fact that it is the only fic in that fandom may ALSO make it slightly obvious. ;)

[fahye.livejournal.com]

Well when I saw that there was one in the fandom, I thought maybe you'd gotten it as YOUR gift! And then I read the tags and was like, yeah, no. DELFIC.

I wrote for a fandom audience that was much smaller than I thought it was (...judging by comments. DO NOT JUDGE BY COMMENTS FAHYE.) but my recipient left the loveliest comment ever so I just keep rereading that :)

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

Muah. I'd have liked one as my gift! Then there would have been TWO WHOLE FICS IN THE ENTIRE FANDOM.

I wrote for a fandom audience that was much smaller than I thought it was

I am really weirded out by how small my chosen fandom turns out to be. I had thought it was a much more popular book than that! On the plus side, I got a comment from someone who does't know the fandom but read it anyway...

[God I hate the hit counter, though].

[fahye.livejournal.com]

My fic is sneaky: it's the only fic in a fandom that doesn't scream FAHYE, but I really don't think any of my friends who read it could fail to realise that I wrote it. (Except that I managed, SOMEHOW, to keep medicine out of it.)

I AM LEAVING FOR THE AIRPORT SOON

NO SNOW FOR 24 HOURS, ENGLAND, OKAY?

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

(Except that I managed, SOMEHOW, to keep medicine out of it.)

Fahye that is unnatural.

It's looking good over London at the moment, we've not had snow in a bit now. FINGERS CROSSED EH.

[fahye.livejournal.com]

I know, I know ;_; I managed to compensate with a completely ridiculous amount of -- other things that I like writing about. Like clothes.

\o/ Time to break in my virgin UK passport.