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heavensqueen ([personal profile] heavensqueen) wrote in [community profile] yuletide_coal2015-12-27 01:37 pm
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Coalclaw Adventures

Keep the yulewank spirit alive
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Re: YT sins

(Anonymous) 2015-12-28 04:34 am (UTC)(link)
Wow, not what I said AT ALL. I said I thought it was an asshole move but I was PLEASED that it's actually boosting the rankings of one person's disliked fics. Reading comprehension much?

Re: YT sins

(Anonymous) 2015-12-28 04:42 am (UTC)(link)
Except that's exactly what you said. You said it's an asshole move because OH NO DECEPTION. Except that the person getting the kudos would never know that they were being deceived and it would have literally no impact on them except positively. So please, tell me again how it's an asshole move to do something helpful for someone that would make them happy.

Re: YT sins

(Anonymous) 2015-12-28 04:47 am (UTC)(link)
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It's not helpful if it comes from a bad place? The end result is helpful though which is what makes it great. They're cutting their nose to spite their face.

What they're doing is like someone cutting in line at the supermarket to be an asshole. The person who they cut in front of ends up being the 1 millionth customer and gets free groceries for life.

You can think someone is being a douchbag and rocognize them as such while still be pleased at the positive end result.

Re: YT sins

(Anonymous) 2015-12-28 05:26 am (UTC)(link)
How on earth is it not helpful? The author doesn't know it's coming from a bad place. The readers browsing through the archive don't know it's coming from a bad place. The readers who sort the archive by kudos don't know it's coming from a bad place. It's not like your analogy at all because someone would know that a person had cut in front of them in line, even if they were happy that it happened a few minutes later. But in this case, literally no one but the OP would know that they're leaving kudos negatively.

What it really would be like is if the person in the front of the line at a supermarket thought "that guy behind me is really ugly. I'm going to pay for his groceries."
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