esteefee: A golden haired, green-eyed Little Fuzzy from the book by H. Beam Piper (talky-hands)
esteefee ([personal profile] esteefee) wrote in [community profile] ao3some 2012-04-10 05:20 pm (UTC)

Yes, sure. Me too. But that doesn't mean I'm going to GET what I want, you know?

But, to reiterate, in a gift economy, it is important for the sustainability of the economy that its members try to "circulate and redistribute valuables within the community".

And in that context, I think kudos are the least valuable gifts, like leaving, I dunno, a single rose petal outside my door.

Whereas comments are like leaving food.

And I do think there are some situations where kudos are very much like silence. e.g., when a single kudoser leaves a kudos on every single story in an 80K word series, but not a single comment. Then it definitely feels like deliberate silence from that particular user, as the kudos trickle in one after another. It's like they are spending the day with me without saying a single word.

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