Meaning of Kudos

[littlemousling]

Poll #10088 Meaning of Kudos

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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

[qem_chibati]

I am suffering from major insomnia/stress right now so writing comments, is hard compared to the umber of stories I want to read, and the amount of things I want to do.

I also do a lot of reading on the train, and typing on an phone can be seriously dodgy/ frustrating, or I'll have it typed out and lose it. :( so I kudos first to show I had appreciation of the story (and I only kudos stories I liked, maybe not unreservedly but at least a little) and Ill comment if I have the energy / something I explicitly want to say. Most of my comments tend to be short though.

I feel like I leave comments in about a 1:7 ratio to kudos.

Kudos actually got me reading a lot of fic again, which I like. I also have started leaving a lot more comments than before - partly because Im reading a lot again and...

It helped take away that element of stress, that I can just hit the button, that I can just leave something short, that I don't have to leave 50 tabs open, then have firefox crash. because copy pasting comments really depresses me if I have to resort to that, which puts me in a better mood - and when I'm in a better mood, I'm more likely to want to articulate my thoughts and want to leave a comment.