*hands* On the other side of the anecdata spectrum, I replied to all my comments, got replies back both from the authors of my gifts and from a couple of my recipients (multiple replies, in a couple cases), and also received quite a few replies to other comments I left (because I actually managed to leave a reasonable amount of comments for others this year, yay). So it's hard for me to gauge whether replies overall are down, because I gave a bunch and got a bunch.
This is me, too. I replied to all (mostly before reveals) and got a flood of replies from all my comments, and it didn't seem to me as though it was less than usual (though not more than, either. But I didn't keep track). I was particularly impressed that Fahye replied to the comments on Interlude (Rise Up) because there were so many. I definitely think more highly of a popular writer for doing that.
Re: Are replies to comments way down
(Anonymous) 2016-01-14 01:06 pm (UTC)(link)Re: Are replies to comments way down
(Anonymous) 2016-01-14 08:29 pm (UTC)(link)