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Have you ever not commented on your gift? If so, why? I have not received comments about half the times I've participated in various challenges including Yuletide, including on 15k+ fic.

I always comment. Even on fics I don't love I always find something nice to say. The only reason I wouldn't if is the writer included one of my DNWs. In that case I would also reject the fic.

I always make a point to leave a long detailed comment on whatever I get, for exactly the reason you've described above - it sucks to not receive a comment on something you've poured your heart and soul into and I refuse to contribute to that. Thankfully I haven't got a single YT gift that I wasn't delighted with yet, but I think I'd still do it even if the fic in question was mediocre or outright terrible.

You're my favourite kind of participant and the reason I keep on doing exchanges <33

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The very first exchange I participated in, I didn't really like my gift (OOC, bad SPAG) – but I did my damnedest to make sure my author never had a reason to suspect I felt that way! Left a long comment highlighting a few lines I liked and gushing about how sweet the fic was.

You're on coal.

I've always commented so gar, even when I later rejected the gift. I wouldn't comment if it was hitting a DNW (I would also insta-reject and take it to the mods).

If someone doesn't comment after a year I ungift it to them and feel vindictively pleased. Probably bad form.

wouldn't that get you banned from Yuletide?

The mods haven't noticed in my case, so idk

I left a placeholder on my gift in 2005 and never went back and redeemed it.

(Why did I leave a placeholder? Well, since some people seem to have missed the context on the other post: It was 2005. Smartphones didn't exist. I had spent the entire anon period in a place where I would have had to obnoxiously leave a family gathering to borrow somebody's car and park in the [closed] library's lot hoping I could pick up their wifi, without saying why because nobody else in the family even had social media back then, much less knew what fanfic was. I had downloaded the fic real fast in a restaurant on the drive there but it was too long to read and comment on over lunch. This was fairly standard at the time to the point that there was YT infrastructure around the fact that at least a third of the participants would not have internet during the anon period. By the time I got back to a place where I could privately log on to the website to comment, the fic was two weeks old, I was deluged under college work again, a bunch of other people had commented, I kept putting it off since I'd already missed the anon period deadline anyway, and then a massive personal-life crisis hit that dropped it way down in priority.

It was a really good fic and I loved it. I met the writer in person at a con a few years later, apologized and gave feedback face-to-face.)

Honestly, even these days when "not having internet access over the holiday" is much less likely, I would assume that anybody who didn't leave a comment is having issues on their end, not that it has anything at all to do with your fic or their opinion of your fic.

I've noncommented a couple of times, when life stuff made it too hard and by the time it let up so much time had passed it felt weird to say anything/I couldn't figure out how to apologize without pity partying

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