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

[greedy_dancer]

Hmm, I keep thinking about this and now I'm wondering if the people who say "kudos = my story wasn't even worth a comment??" are people who usually have the time/spoons to leave "I liked this" comments. And might just not be aware of how many people are simply not able to do that, thus transcribing "I don't have the spoons but I liked this" to "I don't even like your story enough to comment 'properly'".

It really comes down to realizing that yeah, 5 of the kudos might replace "yay, read this" comments you would have otherwise gotten, but they add a greater number of "I read this and probably liked it at least a little" from people you wouldn't have heard of anyway. So there IS a loss, somewhere in there. To me, the gain is greater though. (And yet I'm willing to go without those "yay" reactions from spoonless people when I first post to journal without crossposting to AO3. Comments still feel like a greater reward to me, something that I think is inscribed in our fannish culture right now. I never said I was coherent in my feelings on the subject >.>)