not to be an asshole or anything, but fic writers literally spend hours on their works for other people to read and
for those who arenât familiar with ao3, this means 214 people read it.
out of these 214 people, 23 left kudos, which you donât need to be registered for, all you do is press a button thatâs right where the work ends.
(jsyk, i logged out of ao3 so i could browse as a guest).
you can see the âtopâ button, the âkudosâ button and the âcommentsâ button.Â
you donât have to be registered to comment, either, all you need to do is enter a name and your email adress.
as you can see, itâs very, very simple to kudo and comment. which brings us to my point.
itâs shown that there are two comments, but itâs in fact a comment and the authorâs reply, because ao3 doesnât differentiate these two. which means,
 out of 214 people who read this work, 23 left a kudo and only 1 commented. thatâs 10% and 0,4% respectively.
do you have any idea how disheartening this is for an author? 10% of all the readers let them know they enjoyed the work, and not even 1% give actual feedback.  THIS is why you should always at least leave kudos. THIS is why weâre overjoyed when people comment even shit like âwow they bake vegan cookies!â. to have ONE person in a HUNDRED say anything at all, itâs great.
COMMENTS AND KUDOS KEEPS AUTHORS MOTIVATED. THE BUTTONS ARE HERE FOR A REASON. DONâT ACT LIKE CAVEMEN. THANK YOU.
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