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

[girlpearl]

I will totally also use kudos to mean "I liked the hell out of this but no way am I putting my name on a werewolf watersports bdsm [insert shameful kink here] epic." Sometimes anything I would say in a comment feels a little too id-revealing for a stranger, and a generic "thumbs-up!" is a lot safer.

[littlemousling]

Hey bb! I totally get what you mean, but do you think you could reword that a bit? The author generally puts hir name on those fics, and I don't think you meant to imply that they should be ashamed about [whatever kink], but it's reading that way to me.

[girlpearl]

Hrm, sorry, was being tongue-in-cheek but I see what you mean. I don't even mean necessarily kinks that I am embarrassed about--let alone that someone else should feel ashamed of--just stuff I don't, for whatever reason, feel comfortable talking about with strangers.

[littlemousling]

<333 I figured it was something like that. Thanks for explaining, I appreciate it.

[girlpearl]

No, thanks for pointing out what I said; I went back and read it and was HORRIFIED. That's not what I meant at all!

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