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

[shinetheway]

Yeah. MY comments, the ones that I write and edit and C&P little quotes for and format and reread two or three times for the right level of squee before hitting the post button, should require sacrifice. As in, that entire statement I posted was in the context of WHAT I DO. As in, I do feel I need to repeat this since it obviously wasn't clear, ME, MYSELF, AND I. The first person singular.

I feel that sacrificing my time and energy to write a really awesome comment is more fulfilling to both me and the writer than hitting the comment button. I prefer to write comments intead of using the kudos button because I get a kick out of thinking of the grin on the writer's face when they get my 500 words of squee. I get more satisfaction going back and rereading my old comments then I do going back and staring at my name on the Kudos list.

Except somehow you have decided that what I said somehow reflects on what you do. Which is why it wasn't worth it to respond, since anyone who couldn't clearly read the 14 uses of the word I in that comment probably wasn't worth getting into some internet fistfight with.

[torachan]

So you really don't see how saying that you believe comments should require sacrifice and clicking the kudos button is just not doing enough to show appreciation doesn't sound like you'd be super judgy of comments other people leave for you? Really?

Even when you've written it all out here, I am having a hard time believing that if you feel that passionately about long comments being the best, you would be satisfied with anything else that you got as a writer, or maybe like that person ranting on bethbethbeth's post, you would just view it all as spam.

[shinetheway]

AH! Okay. So it doesn't actually matter what I say, you've decided that you know what I really, truly, actually, secretly meant, then. So glad that we've cleared that up. Why bother participating in a debate, when you can just ~know what I really meant to say?

And as an aside, let's all take a moment to savor the irony of being accused of being super judgy by someone who's pretty obviously judging me ("having a hard time believing").

Believe it if you like. Don't believe it if you like. Leave whatever kind of feedback makes you happy to whatever kind of stories make you happy. You don't get to dictate how that writer (any writer) will take the feedback, unfortunately, cause of that whole "we don't control oter people" thing. Just like they don't get to dictate anything to you about how you should give them feedback--if you give anything at all. We're all our own person, we all have our own ways and goals and feelings and thresholds and preferences and lives.

And since apparently taking the time and effort to clarify what I, you know, ACTUALLY SAID AND MEANT doesn't really count for much, I'm leaving it at that.

[(Anonymous)]

I love how you defenders of this button keep attacking people who dare to not like it the same way you do this viciously.

Way to be inclusive, anon. Way to go.

Why are you so angry that different people see things differently? It doesn't harm anyone.

[torachan]

I am very confused as to why you, an anonymous commenter, are calling me "anon". O_o