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

[kat-lair.livejournal.com]

Yes I'm sure there are exceptional circumstances when Author posts a fic only to have her entire house destroyed in a freak accident while a particularly strong solar-flare disables all network connections in the entire county... Okay, okay, I'm being a sarcastic bitch but what I'm trying to say that you can pretty much tell when someone is on unexpected hiatus because of RL stuff and when someone is just lazy and ill-mannered.

[twofourteen.livejournal.com]

Oh, I know what you mean. A lot of people argue that like, you can only say "Thank you" so many ways. And like, I get that. But still ACKNOWLEDGING the feedback. I know in some cases people have just been like, flummoxed with feedback and just were like "A HUGE GENERAL THANK YOU!!" which I can appreciate all the same.

[kat-lair.livejournal.com]

*nods* Yeah, that's absolutely fine. It takes too minutes to edit the post with "thank you everyone blah blah blah" if you really are too swamped to deal with comments individually.