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Re: Reading Time

[(Anonymous)]

I feel like some of the comments above don’t really get why people comment on short fics first, and your comment really doesn’t get it at all. It’s not that people are looking for ~easy stimulation or something rather than the engagement of the longfic.

1) Most people like to get their commenting done before the anon period is up. Prioritizing longfic can slow you down.

2) On coal especially, lots of people are interested in making people happy and/or developing a reputation for being a good egg. That means reading widely and commenting on as many fics as possible. Reading 15 1k fics in a day will mean you left 15 comments, making the authors happy and generating good will for your reputation. If you devoted all of today to reading 1 or 2 longfics, only those authors would be happy.

3) Not everyone is a thoughtful/long commenter. Knowing you’re going to leave a one paragraph comment on a 2k fic is fine, but it is daunting to some people to know they’ll do it on a 19k one, and so they put it off.

4) Authors are fretting. If you care, reading a lot of shortfic is a good way to help bring up the general Yuletide mood.

Re: Reading Time

[(Anonymous)]

lots of people are interested in making people happy and/or developing a reputation for being a good egg

I'm not saying there's no one out there who comments early specifically because they want to "develop a reputation," but I would be honestly shocked if it was more than like, one or two people.

Re: Reading Time

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

Uhm, I'm not sure where I said that readers are looking for "easy stimulation"?

I simply said that it doesn't take as much time to read 1-2k as it takes to read 15k, which seems a pretty obvious statement to make, and yes, all the reasons you list are based on the same assumption - that it takes less time to read short fic. I assume we are not going to have to argue about the linear passing of time or standard time measurements here, so I'm not entirely sure why you think we got it all wrong.

Re: Reading Time

[(Anonymous)]

I assume we are not going to have to argue about the linear passing of time or standard time measurements here
Awwwww. I would be totally into wank of that level of abstraction and quality, whether based in the Coalies diverging interpretations of physics or metaphysics.