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

Coalclaw Adventures

Keep the yulewank spirit alive

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."