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Quid Pro No Quo
15 years ago
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I had a little flash of realization a last week. I don't normally respond to comments people leave on my submissions, and I wondered... is that a reason people might not leave comments in the first place? After all, everyone wants to know someone is on the other end listening.
Thing is, Fur Affinity's comment system is really pretty clumsy. Sure it's no problem to reply to comments when you have a handful of them, but what about some people here who can easily lay down 50 comments in two hours? Do you respond to all of them? Only a select few? How do you decide who gets a response and who doesn't? And if you do reply to a lot of comments, I feel it kind of clutters up the comment section, not to mention inflating your comment count.
Furthermore, I think I'm just not a fan of threaded comments. It pretty much forces you to respond to everyone individually if you want them to know you've responded to them. Make note of this moment, because I don't have a lot of good things to say about Facebook. But they know how to do comments. Un-threaded and once you comment, you get notified of all new comments that are added. It's a lot more like a forum post.
This would work a lot better for me. I'd love to just lay down a comment that says 'Thanks everyone, I appreciate your feedback' and then maybe call out some individual shots. And I can do that here, but nobody who has commented before would have any clue I had said anything. The only way to notify the people who have already left comments is to comment on everyone's comment, and that's cumbersome and looks funny (at least to me).
So I guess what I'm trying to say to all my watchers who still read my journals... I always welcome and enjoy your comments. I may not be so sure how to show it, but I'm always happy to get comments and hear from all of you and what you think of my submissions. I'll see what I can do to maybe make it better known... but in the mean time, please remember I'm happy all of you are watching. Hopefully now and then I provide you with something you like.
Cheers.
Thing is, Fur Affinity's comment system is really pretty clumsy. Sure it's no problem to reply to comments when you have a handful of them, but what about some people here who can easily lay down 50 comments in two hours? Do you respond to all of them? Only a select few? How do you decide who gets a response and who doesn't? And if you do reply to a lot of comments, I feel it kind of clutters up the comment section, not to mention inflating your comment count.
Furthermore, I think I'm just not a fan of threaded comments. It pretty much forces you to respond to everyone individually if you want them to know you've responded to them. Make note of this moment, because I don't have a lot of good things to say about Facebook. But they know how to do comments. Un-threaded and once you comment, you get notified of all new comments that are added. It's a lot more like a forum post.
This would work a lot better for me. I'd love to just lay down a comment that says 'Thanks everyone, I appreciate your feedback' and then maybe call out some individual shots. And I can do that here, but nobody who has commented before would have any clue I had said anything. The only way to notify the people who have already left comments is to comment on everyone's comment, and that's cumbersome and looks funny (at least to me).
So I guess what I'm trying to say to all my watchers who still read my journals... I always welcome and enjoy your comments. I may not be so sure how to show it, but I'm always happy to get comments and hear from all of you and what you think of my submissions. I'll see what I can do to maybe make it better known... but in the mean time, please remember I'm happy all of you are watching. Hopefully now and then I provide you with something you like.
Cheers.
And I'll probably never join Facebook.