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

[melusina]

I just went back and reread a bunch of the comments on a series of polls on Feedback that I did on LJ from 2003 to 2006 and it's interesting that at that point, when LJ was still fairly new (and DW and AO3 weren't even glimmers in anyone's eye), there was some sense that LJ comments were "less than" an emailed letter of comment, because the ease of "clicking a button" and leaving a few word response was viewed as an inadequate response to an author's work (hmmm. . sounds familiar!). The more things change. . .

[littlemousling]

That is FASCINATING.

[melusina]

From the comments to the 2004 poll:

"It only takes a few seconds to click the comment button on LiveJournal, but if someone sends me an email, I get all wibbly and happy. It takes that much more effort, which speaks volumes to me."

Which sounds almost exactly like some of the comments on why comments are superior to Kudos. . .

[zebra_in_dream]

There's an archive I'd like to post to, but I'm neither posting nor commenting, because to post I'd have to make my email address public and to comment, the author would get it. My email address isn't a random persons business whom I just wanted to tell that I liked their story.

[melannen]

And then you go back to 'zine days, where I'm given to understand people felt lucky to get any feedback at all. :D

[likeadeuce]

I don't think I've EVER gotten an emailed comment off LJ unless it was from someone I already knew well and would be in contact with. I might be kind of freaked out that a stranger had gone looking for my email address, honestly.

It's definitely a cultural shift!

[qwerty]

hahaha. I remember reading discussions of this nature as well. Every generation has a new lawn that they want people to get off of.

[copracat]

"Every generation has a new lawn that they want people to get off of."

Thanks for the laugh! What a great way to put it.

[isis]

Oh, man, I'm going to have to find my similar polls. Because I know I did a whole bunch of posts and polls like this!

[glitteryv]

Wow, that's so interesting.