Meaning of Kudos

[littlemousling]

Poll #10088 Meaning of Kudos

This poll is anonymous.
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 369

When I click the Kudos button, it most often means (one or more of) the following:

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Good job!
261 (70.7%)

I liked this!
339 (91.9%)

I finished this and didn't hate it!
60 (16.3%)

I ADORED this!
204 (55.3%)

I like clicking buttons and assign no meaning!
4 (1.1%)

None of these options apply
6 (1.6%)

This is a sort of follow-up to bethbethbeth's great Kudos/Comments poll here. There are a number of comments there discussing the various reasons people click the Kudos button, some of which may be more common reasons than others.

Feel free to expand on your answer!

Comments

[radondoran]

I usually try to remember to click the Kudos button if a fic made me happy in some way--like, maybe there was one part I really liked, or maybe I loved it but would feel weird talking about why (I loved the other poll's option about kudos'ing anon "because of REASONS"). Or maybe it was completely amazing, and I just can't think of anything to say/don't have time/don't feel like stressing over writing a good comment right now/whatever. The point is, I try to click Kudos when I read a fic I enjoy.

That's why I absolutely love getting Kudos notifications--I always interpret it to mean that I wrote something that made somebody else happy, even in a very small way. And that's awesome! :D