400 comments seem like an awful lot. The number alone looks overwhelming. But maybe there's a price to everything, isn't it?
For me, there is a difference between a post in a fest and one in an individual journal. In a journal, I can look at the authors responding habits and decide if I want to leave feedback. If they don't care for feedback, I'm fine with that. In a fest - not so much, because I don't want to wait with the comments after the authors are revealed.
I don't want to stop commenting, because a comment, to me, makes the difference between seeing a fic and the author behind it or simply consuming the story without any acknowledgment. Leaving no feedback doesn't make me happy, because I feel that I've been cheating the author of some part of the fanish exchange.
So, altogether? I guess I rather go on as before and learn to shrug off those non-responders as impolite. It's not in their power to spoil the fun. :-)
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400 comments seem like an awful lot. The number alone looks overwhelming. But maybe there's a price to everything, isn't it?
For me, there is a difference between a post in a fest and one in an individual journal. In a journal, I can look at the authors responding habits and decide if I want to leave feedback. If they don't care for feedback, I'm fine with that. In a fest - not so much, because I don't want to wait with the comments after the authors are revealed.
I don't want to stop commenting, because a comment, to me, makes the difference between seeing a fic and the author behind it or simply consuming the story without any acknowledgment. Leaving no feedback doesn't make me happy, because I feel that I've been cheating the author of some part of the fanish exchange.
So, altogether? I guess I rather go on as before and learn to shrug off those non-responders as impolite. It's not in their power to spoil the fun. :-)