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LittleMousling ([personal profile] littlemousling) wrote in [community profile] ao3some2012-04-06 09:03 am

Meaning of Kudos

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 [personal profile] 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!
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[personal profile] dancing_serpent 2012-04-06 02:57 pm (UTC)(link)
I chose "None of these options apply" because I don't leave kudos. That word got stripped of any positive meaning for me back in the late 90ies/early 20**s - I was part of a group of authors then who constantly misused it. It got so popular that people started using it for pretty much everything, even as greetings. Got really annoying, really fast and now only carries memories of irritation for me.