Podfic receives very, very, VERY little comments in general. We're talking a ratio of hundreds of downloads to one comment (there's no way to know if a downloads is equal to a listen, or to ten listens, or what; we have no clue). This is partly because listening happens away from the point of download (in time and often in space too), so what slowly happened is that some people have gotten into the habit of leaving a comment to say 'I'm downloading this, thank you', which is a minimum thing where you get to express that you're happy that that podfic exists, that the podficcer did the work, and that you're anticipating listening to it. Then, you come back later - or you don't - to give actual, post-listen feedback.
This culture/habit has evolved on sites with comments but no easy button, like LJ/DW (many, MANY people don't do it; I don't want to make it look like it's super prevalent… but some of us have the habit, sort of, now)… And on AO3 the Kudos button is a handy way to replace that essentially phatic comment of 'yay, downloading!' that is not really proper feedback.
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Date: 2012-04-07 01:50 am (UTC)This culture/habit has evolved on sites with comments but no easy button, like LJ/DW (many, MANY people don't do it; I don't want to make it look like it's super prevalent… but some of us have the habit, sort of, now)… And on AO3 the Kudos button is a handy way to replace that essentially phatic comment of 'yay, downloading!' that is not really proper feedback.