#admin answerin'

Do you avoid reading and leaving comments on fics that have content that's...not necessarily triggering, but just more disturbing? Like I'm always excited to read a fic no matter what, but if I see there's incest or underage sex past like, a mention, I'm like, "This is illegal, how can I support this?" sort of thing. It's not a morality thing about the person who wrote it, it's more a "am I a terrible person if I read this," sort of thing. I can always find something good to comment on in someone's writing, but yeah.

Do you have any advice / know any good guides for adding additional tags to fics? Additional tags are one of the main ways I filter when I'm looking for something to read but I never know what to add when I'm tagging my own work

People always talk about live blogging a fic and I don’t fully get what that means? Because my brain sees blog and thinks tumblr but this is the comment on ao3 so authors see your comments blog

i see people starting to freak out about ao3 being down for 20 hours on the 26th (honestly same) and as always when the archive goes down for a time i think that's a splendid opportunity to issue a reminder that if ao3 is so important to so many people said people should totally consider telling their favorite authors just how much they love their work and how much it matters to them ^^

It hasn't been a week, so my fic doesn't count for the spreadsheet. I just wanted to vent a little how demoralizing it is to post a fic, and then 24 hours still not have gotten a comment. It wasn't even long. 1.5k. And I get 10+ kudos and *no* comments? Not even an emoji? It hurts. It's a small fandom, so sure, I should expect a trickle, but *come on.*

Probably an unpopular opinion, but I don't really like the 20 fics per fandom limit...big fandoms like idk One Piece or Doctor Who or Supernatural simply have more fics overall, so the total number of commentless fics is of course also higher if compared to smaller fandoms. And that way it kind of feels like the bigger fandoms get a punishment/penalty simply for being popular

Being in the same Discord server with multiple authors you've been fangirling over is both fun and anguish. Wdym one just droppes a snippet on me. Wdym i get to watch the word counts for said fic go up in the sprints. Wdym i get to suggest ideas to fix plot holes?? What is this otherworldly locked commenter level am i unlocking here.

I know this is nobody's fault (especially not yours or the other participants)...but seeing all these happy stories about people finding friends through commenting, or secretly submitting their friend's fics, or someone getting a comment and it makes their day always make me feel quite bittersweet. Of course I'm happy for all these people and it's great that the project is such a success for them, but I also can't help but wish that for once it would happen to me too :'( (I know it won't happen and I kinda made peace with that knowledge, but it would make fandom feel less lonely idk)