thank you for your detailed reply! i was confused initially because i interpreted your first response as saying you could comment or give feedback and i wondered how they could be two separate things. i get you now, and i really appreciate you taking the time to explain how you differentiate between each type of comment.
for me, the trend that i'm seeing in kpop ficdom is that no comments are being left, spazzy or critical. i wasn't here much for this round of olymfics but if it went the way of every other fic comp or exchange there was a great deal of discussion on the meme, with anons dissecting each story and giving their opinions on everything from characterization to formatting and yet not even leaving a polite "thank you for writing" comment on the fic itself.
you're right in that writing, and especially fanfiction writing, is something we do because we love the artists and enjoy the writing process, but does anyone write for a void? i'd like some sort of acknowledgement of reading for anything i've done, whether it's a quick drabble dashed off in twenty minutes or something i've battled with for months, struggling with every word. i go to ao3 and see fics for popular fandoms with thousands of kudos and yet often we as a fandom can't even bring ourselves to sign the guestbook after reading a fic we've enjoyed.
i understand that you don't want to have something you do as an escape be marred by critical feedback, but just wondering - do you disable comments all together when you post to lj? i've never done that, nor seen it in kpop ficdom, and when the comment option is there i don't know how we can expect anyone to not use it.
yes, i believe that spazzy comments are acceptable! i was just confused by your comment, lol. in many ways i think they are expected, and while posting doesn't automatically mean you are entitled to a certain number of spazzy comments i think the onus is on the reader to let an author know when they've enjoyed reading their fic.
i've had a lj for around eight years now and i've been in kpop fandom for nearly half of that, and it's my changing experience with the ficdom that prompted my original comment. even two years ago i would see writers receive x amount of comments, and now when they post fics of the same calibre i see a quarter of those comments. i don't understand why this is happening and that's why i posed the question to the world/meme!
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for me, the trend that i'm seeing in kpop ficdom is that no comments are being left, spazzy or critical. i wasn't here much for this round of olymfics but if it went the way of every other fic comp or exchange there was a great deal of discussion on the meme, with anons dissecting each story and giving their opinions on everything from characterization to formatting and yet not even leaving a polite "thank you for writing" comment on the fic itself.
you're right in that writing, and especially fanfiction writing, is something we do because we love the artists and enjoy the writing process, but does anyone write for a void? i'd like some sort of acknowledgement of reading for anything i've done, whether it's a quick drabble dashed off in twenty minutes or something i've battled with for months, struggling with every word. i go to ao3 and see fics for popular fandoms with thousands of kudos and yet often we as a fandom can't even bring ourselves to sign the guestbook after reading a fic we've enjoyed.
i understand that you don't want to have something you do as an escape be marred by critical feedback, but just wondering - do you disable comments all together when you post to lj? i've never done that, nor seen it in kpop ficdom, and when the comment option is there i don't know how we can expect anyone to not use it.
yes, i believe that spazzy comments are acceptable! i was just confused by your comment, lol. in many ways i think they are expected, and while posting doesn't automatically mean you are entitled to a certain number of spazzy comments i think the onus is on the reader to let an author know when they've enjoyed reading their fic.
i've had a lj for around eight years now and i've been in kpop fandom for nearly half of that, and it's my changing experience with the ficdom that prompted my original comment. even two years ago i would see writers receive x amount of comments, and now when they post fics of the same calibre i see a quarter of those comments. i don't understand why this is happening and that's why i posed the question to the world/meme!
thank you again for your reponses, anon!