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[cw5523729]

I'm glad someone takes a minute to comment, but they are commenting on something I provided for them to entertain them and for free. I see a comment-decent one anyway-as their thank you to us, the author, we don't need to thank them for thanking us.

Thank you for posting this.


Feel free to thank me for thanking you.

 

[Statius]

Brave is, simultaneously, the best Disney film AND the best Pixar film.

I will not be answering questions at this time.

*raises hand eagerly*

 

[Z_TheWriter]

I'm glad someone takes a minute to comment, but they are commenting on something I provided for them to entertain them and for free. I see a comment-decent one anyway-as their thank you to us, the author, we don't need to thank them for thanking us.

I will admit that I have thanked people for commenting. But it was a single comment going thank you everyone for the great reception of my first story.
Or because I was answering something substantive, but thanking the person for commenting at the same time - again once.

 

[cw5523729]

I will admit that I have thanked people for commenting. But it was a single comment going thank you everyone for the great reception of my first story.
Or because I was answering something substantive, but thanking the person for commenting at the same time - again once.

Thank you for saying this

 

[billrokra]

I love most everything Bram Stoker wrote (not his travel books, though he never traveled to the places he wrote about), and only one book was bad, but it is almost at the top of my list. Lair of the White Worm, the only thing worse was the film adaptation of it. But it was so, so bad, it was good.

It is amazing that Stoker managed to write one of the best novels in English and, later, one of the worst novels in English. His short stories are great.

 

[lovecraft68]

Thank you for posting this.


Feel free to thank me for thanking you.

Thank you for thanking me about my post where I eschew thanking people for thanking me.

 

[Kelliezgirl]

Brave is, simultaneously, the best Disney film AND the best Pixar film.

I will not be answering questions at this time.

While I appreciated the Red-Head representation that has been sorely lacking in Disney and Pixar.
The Incredibles is the best Pixar film.

 

[YmaOHyd]

Hail, Caesar! is the great Catholic movie of our times.

 

[Off_base]

People who feel the need to reply to every single comment-not one or two that intrigues them but every damn one- on their story present themselves as being needy and desperate for attention.

It's like that touchdown analogy my uncle used when telling me not to act like an idiot and run around telling everyone I had sex with a girl. Act like you've been there before and will again because if that's how you act, you will be.

I'm glad someone takes a minute to comment, but they are commenting on something I provided for them to entertain them and for free. I see a comment-decent one anyway-as their thank you to us, the author, we don't need to thank them for thanking us.

I see a story has sixty comments, I think, hey, this has some buzz, let me check it out, then 30-literally half-are from the author I then click off of it, its lame as all hell. I also doubt readers ever see that anyone does it. They'd have to decide to come back to the story and search through the comments. Maybe some authors here who need attention as well return to look, but doesn't seem like many readers do that, so what's the real point?

Now, seeing it as needy is my opinion. That's what this thread is about.

But there is a factual issue with it as well.

Comments can push a story up in the searches as its activity so when every legit comment becomes two comments, it's playing that system. I think this can be yet another of the endless factors in contest stories and more of an issue there than random submissions.

I want whatever comment total someone sees on my story to be legit, not padded and if the number is small, it is what it is.

I respond to thoughtful comments because it's polite.
I could care less if other authors view it as needy.