i think thanking people for watches should be done to let the watcher know that you appreciate them watching you.

Thank you for the input. I think I may start doing that.

I guess it's really down to personal preference.
Most people leave it as a courtesy, but some other people find it annoying, and most generally don't mind if you leave no comment.
Personally, I'm impartial. If I've got spare time, I'll thank the watcher, but it's no biggie if someone doesn't thank me.

Hm, that seems to be the most common attitude, based on a grand total of eight comments anyway. I spose I might as well start thanking people though (provided they don't have something on their page requesting that such comments not be left, of course).

I kinda saw it as common courtesy thing. Especially on here, anyway.

I see. I may start doing it, then.

I've started to try doing that myself recently. It's a nice gesture, but be aware of users who have the note at the top of their page requesting you to not thank them for the watch/fave.
Otherwise I try to do it when I can. Some users even post journals as a massive thanks when there are a whole bunch of new viewers or favorites of their work.

I might as well. I don't have enough of a flow of watchers for it to be inconvenient to do.

Personally I don't like thanks for watches. Especially not the thanks for faves.

I dunno, I just find them obnoxious somehow. Like "omg I don't care that you have a note that says you hate these shouts but im gonna do it anyway because that way people might see me and watch me too". That's SOMETIMES the case. Sometimes it's just plain ignorant. Other times, it's actually trying to be nice, but the copy-paste nature of those shouts gradually become more and more meaningless so you may as well not do them. You're turning into a spammer.

Though it's not that the watches/faves are unappreciated. It's good to be thankful to someone for it definitely, but it's better to do that with submission comments or via milestone journals, you know? Just be sociable with your watchers/fans to a degree. It wouldn't be a bad idea to take a minor interest in what they upload themselves. If you're gonna thank someone for a watch/fave, do better than that and fave something else or be like "hey thanks! I like your art/the way you ___ in it!" or whatever.

The people who watch me for whatever reason I'm generally friendly with, and I thank them for their comments by commenting back to them the best I can. I feel it goes without saying that I'm thankful for the watches and faves I get. Just, like, hey, they're people too you know?

Basically - There's a point where you can seem stuck-up and uninterested in anyone but yourself and your current friends. There's also a point where you can appear not stuck-up, but omgannoyingplzstop.

And then there's a lovely compromise - comment replies and taking a modicum of interest in people who like you. It's not that you gotta be buddy-buddy and watch-back, just like, be decent and don't take it all for granted, see.

The majority consensus seems to be that it's a polite thing to do, provided the person does not have something saying they don't like those shouts. Gotta agree that at that point it just becomes rude.
As things are at this point, I pretty much always respond to comments. I don't get enough that it becomes a huge nuisance to do so, so why not.
I suppose the same applies to watches; I don't get so many that it's impractical to thank all of them, so I might as well.

it's not rude. it's nice to be thanked, but i do NOT go around expecting a thank-you for every fave and watch i do. that would be pompous.

I might as well. It's not difficult to do so.

It's all really up to you. Some people think of it as standard practice on here, others don't. I like to thank watches personally, but I don't expect everybody to do it: especially when they get a lot of new watches daily! I don't thank for favs anymore because it was getting a bit too tedious... So if you think it'd be tedious to thank everyone individually like that, then I'm sure they'd understand.

If you'd prefer, it also might just be good to thank people en masse in a journal, sort of like you've done here. But it's really your call.

I don't have a high enough flow of watchers for it to be inconvenient to thank them as they come (even when my ad was running), so I might as well.

Nope. Some people actually find thanks annoying, because it's just more notifications that fill the message box.

I think I'm gonna start doing it, but obviously I won't leave such shouts on the pages of people who make it clear they don't like those.

WTF is up with that avatar?

Also, yes, you're a horrible person for not thanking peeps. XD

When I reply to a comment, it looks up at the person's icon... silently judging them.

GET OUT OF MY FUCKING HEAD!

Neveerrrrrrrrr!

...There's naked ladies in herrrrrrrre!

Don't flatter me! My mind's an empty abyss!

An empty abyss full of debauchery! Go sit in the corner, young man!

/me sits in the debauchery corner. "Woohoo!"

Hey, no debauchery in the debauchery corner! :U

Then what's it for?

For being guilty of debauchery, but not continuing it. :U

Oooooooh So I can't keep my hooker here?

Nope, 'fraid not. He has to go.

Touchee

;P