Contest 59 Voting/Results

[pipisafoat]

Okay, yes, we all know who won, but clickyboxes are fun! And reading the entry is also fun!

Poll #11264 Contest 59 Voting

Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Just the Poll Creator, participants: 3

A click for liking it!

catness's entry here
3 (100.0%)

Comments

[silverflight8]

"A click for liking it" brings up the memories of the inevitable sprawling wank arguments about kudos on AO3 *shakes head*

[pipisafoat]

hahahahaha oh, wank, do you know how much I enjoy reading wank. It's like reading meta, only with more laughing at people. :D

HELLO this morning I tried to type "Silver Award" and definitely wrote "Silverflight8 Award" on automatic.

eta: also my mother just read aloud an email from one of her bosses-ish, who apparently ALWAYS signs things with "Kudos, $name" and it was just such hilarious timing for me after this comment

[silverflight8]

I went trawling through and found some links if you want. I mean, mostly they're not that bad but everytime the subject comes up I scroooooll because the arguments are always exactly the same and no one gets anywhere and it all seems pointless to me? Can't control responses of people etc. IMO kudos is such a huge topic because it kind of touches on a lot of things applicable to a lot of people - writers' desire (or not) for responses/types of responses/comments, readers' desire to leave/not leave types of response. who owes who what (I gave you story, why no comment? etc), some AO3 dislike thrown in, get off my lawn "comments means you worked harder and didn't just click a button", ambiguity over what kudos means ("I read this!" "I didn't hate this!" "I liked this!" "I feel obligated to say I finished it!" "I like clicking buttons"), "death of commenting culture" and it goes on and on. And it's not, say, fandom or genre or anything-specific, so everybody can jump in.

http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/34242.html?thread=156788418#t156788418

http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/34242.html?thread=156598466#t156598466

And the monster thread: http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/31204.html?thread=140390884#t140390884

Having now typed up that I feel like some very interesting meta could be written about kudosing. Jeez.