I am neutral about the kudos myself, but I am always happy to receive notice that someone is reading my stories, whether it comes in the form of kudos, comments or a hit count. So it's all good.
I took note of how people who are shy about leaving comments or don't know what to say REALLY LOVE the kudos function, and for that reason alone I'm all for it!
And your sentiment that it's difficult to find the right words or the energy to reply to comments, so kudos helps you as a writer.... that seems to make it valuable as well.
I've never been the kind of writer who receives so much feedback that it becomes oppressive to reply to all of it, so I have no idea how that would be, LOL.
But clearly kudos serve an important function for many people.
Interestingly, I always saw them as something you could do in place of comments, but lately I've been getting BOTH a kudo and a comment from some readers.
Basically I am all about anything that helps fandom feel like a communicating bunch of like minded folks. Like a community. :)
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I am neutral about the kudos myself, but I am always happy to receive notice that someone is reading my stories, whether it comes in the form of kudos, comments or a hit count. So it's all good.
I took note of how people who are shy about leaving comments or don't know what to say REALLY LOVE the kudos function, and for that reason alone I'm all for it!
And your sentiment that it's difficult to find the right words or the energy to reply to comments, so kudos helps you as a writer.... that seems to make it valuable as well.
I've never been the kind of writer who receives so much feedback that it becomes oppressive to reply to all of it, so I have no idea how that would be, LOL.
But clearly kudos serve an important function for many people.
Interestingly, I always saw them as something you could do in place of comments, but lately I've been getting BOTH a kudo and a comment from some readers.
Basically I am all about anything that helps fandom feel like a communicating bunch of like minded folks. Like a community. :)