I don't really figure it's any of my business why they felt it was easier to comment on some other platform. I certainly don't feel the need to worry about whether they had what I would consider a good enough reason for doing so. I pretty much give them the benefit of the doubt.
People say that a lot; I am not sure if comment culture is actually dying. For my part, I have already left over 60 comments on Yuletide fics.
Yeah, but you're one person. I made a point of writing a bunch of comments for YT this year, too, but that doesn't have anything to do with whether commenting as a whole is down, and AFAIK people have been reporting lower comment counts almost across the board. Even the "big" YT fics seem to get fewer than in the past. (That's anecdotal; I haven't gone and collected data and compared. But I've written mid-sized hits for YT a couple of times in years past, and even the most popular fics these last few years haven't gotten as many comments as I got. That's a pretty major indicator to me of comment culture dying.)
I think we do have a different mind-set here.
Yeah, I think you're right. In any case, to answer your earnest question from earlier: yes, that request still would sound entitled to me as a recip and comment-leaver.
Re: Yuletide 2014 Non-Commenters - L-Z
I don't really figure it's any of my business why they felt it was easier to comment on some other platform. I certainly don't feel the need to worry about whether they had what I would consider a good enough reason for doing so. I pretty much give them the benefit of the doubt.
People say that a lot; I am not sure if comment culture is actually dying. For my part, I have already left over 60 comments on Yuletide fics.
Yeah, but you're one person. I made a point of writing a bunch of comments for YT this year, too, but that doesn't have anything to do with whether commenting as a whole is down, and AFAIK people have been reporting lower comment counts almost across the board. Even the "big" YT fics seem to get fewer than in the past. (That's anecdotal; I haven't gone and collected data and compared. But I've written mid-sized hits for YT a couple of times in years past, and even the most popular fics these last few years haven't gotten as many comments as I got. That's a pretty major indicator to me of comment culture dying.)
I think we do have a different mind-set here.
Yeah, I think you're right. In any case, to answer your earnest question from earlier: yes, that request still would sound entitled to me as a recip and comment-leaver.