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May. 12th, 2006 10:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lobelia321*falls down exhausted*
I have just finished replying to the very last commentrix on my first person and present tense post. I got 30 odd comments! I got threads wriggling down into that little linky thing! My comments counter says '60 sweet nothings!' It is weird: every few weeks or so I seem to get one of those posts that attract metafandom, and this one also attracted something called Hogwarts Today.
The first time this happened I got into a state. Remember that? The second time I was already more philosophical, though still flustered and put out (how dare someone link me?!). This time, the third, I have much mellowed. I have, however, this strange etiquette driving me that means I must reply to every single comment.
Now the thing is this post hardly attracted any comments from the friendly faces on my flist. All of these people were unknowns to me! So, although some were very nice and some interesting, it was still exhausting replying to them all, like moving around a cocktail party full of strangers, making smalltalk or holding forth, and having to introduce yourself over and over again. I found myself copying and pasting replies because I just couldn't be bothered typing the same thing over and over, and commentrixes did tend to say the same thing over and over, meaning they hadn't read the others' comments first (I guess).
When I write fic, I love and crave every single comment. I gather them all in, the trite ones, the gushing ones, the intellectual ones, the critical ones, the friendly ones. But with this sort of musing-post, it exhausts me and I wish there were fewer of them!
I have just finished replying to the very last commentrix on my first person and present tense post. I got 30 odd comments! I got threads wriggling down into that little linky thing! My comments counter says '60 sweet nothings!' It is weird: every few weeks or so I seem to get one of those posts that attract metafandom, and this one also attracted something called Hogwarts Today.
The first time this happened I got into a state. Remember that? The second time I was already more philosophical, though still flustered and put out (how dare someone link me?!). This time, the third, I have much mellowed. I have, however, this strange etiquette driving me that means I must reply to every single comment.
Now the thing is this post hardly attracted any comments from the friendly faces on my flist. All of these people were unknowns to me! So, although some were very nice and some interesting, it was still exhausting replying to them all, like moving around a cocktail party full of strangers, making smalltalk or holding forth, and having to introduce yourself over and over again. I found myself copying and pasting replies because I just couldn't be bothered typing the same thing over and over, and commentrixes did tend to say the same thing over and over, meaning they hadn't read the others' comments first (I guess).
When I write fic, I love and crave every single comment. I gather them all in, the trite ones, the gushing ones, the intellectual ones, the critical ones, the friendly ones. But with this sort of musing-post, it exhausts me and I wish there were fewer of them!