Open letter

[kat_lair]

Dear Fanfic Author,

If you are not going to bother answering comments, then I'm not going to bother with leaving you one, no matter how much I liked your fic. And no, I'm not talking about comments a few days old that you just haven't gotten around to yet. I'm talking about comments that were left several months ago and haven't been acknowledged with even a simple 'thank you'. Also, if it's clear that you're only answering comments left by your in-crowd or other so-called BNFs, then I will be doubley disinclined to acknowledge your fic in any way. Because nothing gets up my nose faster than that sort of high-school elitism and if that makes me a petty bitch then so be it. You can take your entitlement issues and 5 pages of unanswered comments and fuck off.

Ask me if I care,
Kat

Comments

[delicatelight.livejournal.com]

I hate that. I'm not great about answering comments sometimes, but I always answer fic comments. Someone has taken the time to tell you that they enjoyed what you created, the very least you can do is give a simple "thank you."

[kat-lair.livejournal.com]

I will always answer all comments on my posts, fic or not. Sometimes with a few days delay but I will do it. And I agree with your point whole-heartedly. In an unlikely scenario that person would both get 10 pages of comments AND be super-duper busy at the same time, it takes 1 minute to edit the post to leave a general "thank you everyone, will get back to you soon" message at the bottom of the page or something.