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Re: AO3 behaviours and gifts

[(Anonymous)]

including coalie with goldfish brain who reads each gift fic twice a week

If your reading comprehension is as bad with your gifts, I get why you don't reread them.

I said I was on my gifts page rereading old gifts twice a week. Which amounts to rereading an individual gift I received maybe 2-3 times per year (some more, some less). No, I don't go on AO3 every Monday and Thursday and reread 200+ gifts every time. Shocking.

Re: AO3 behaviours and gifts

[(Anonymous)]

Hey, if you have 200 gifts, wonderful for you! Not exactly an average number. If you humbly mentioned this gift total in your initial response, then my bad for not remembering it. If you didn’t, poor reading comprehension isn’t the charge to level—just making an ass out of u and me because I thought you’d have an average number of gifts.

(Though if you have 200 gifts and are still in the rejecting-when-you-don’t-like-a-fic cohort, I still have questions for you, The Collector..)

Re: AO3 behaviours and gifts

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think I mentioned a number but I did say that I reread fics every few months.

But yes, I'm in the 'it's okay to reject gift when you hate them' camp. Not to say I do this all the time, it happened maybe three times in today over my entire time on AO3. Most of my gifts are outside of exchanges and things I specifically prompted for from specific authors on LJ/DW/Tumblr, so there's less room for "this is terrible I don't want to see it".

Re: AO3 behaviours and gifts

[(Anonymous)]

DA

I think people on coal forget that gifts aren't necessarily just exchange gifts. I do a lot of prompt requests on Tumblr and things like 3 sentence ficathon, and if the authors repost those on AO3, they gift them to me. Having a few hundred gifts doesn't (have to) mean that you're a BNF or that you do 50 exchanges a year, it usually just means being fairly active in fandom.