Well, this hasn't been my experience at all, I must say, in commenting on people's LJs. I do think there is a certain etiquette to commenting and it can seem, to the writer, as if the commentor is being rather demanding if they show up, out of nowhere, on a random post, and ask when X will be updated. I would be especially taken aback if it was someone with whom I had never engaged in a dialogue before.
See - it is really easy for a writer or vidder or artist or essayist or just anyone in fandom, to chafe against a certain sense of entitlement a few other fans might feel. So, especially when as I said before, you've never engaged in dialogue with this specific fan, they come on your LJ and ask about WIPs (which might be tangled in their own emotional angsty drama) it could take you aback. At the very least it could feel as if this stranger was demanding that you update, without ever engaging meaningfully with you over the text.
But this particular challenge?? Has nothing to do with asking what a fandom participant can do for you --- it is just about thanking them for what they have already done. And kudos always goes over like gangbusters.
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Date: 2005-10-28 06:05 pm (UTC)See - it is really easy for a writer or vidder or artist or essayist or just anyone in fandom, to chafe against a certain sense of entitlement a few other fans might feel. So, especially when as I said before, you've never engaged in dialogue with this specific fan, they come on your LJ and ask about WIPs (which might be tangled in their own emotional angsty drama) it could take you aback. At the very least it could feel as if this stranger was demanding that you update, without ever engaging meaningfully with you over the text.
But this particular challenge?? Has nothing to do with asking what a fandom participant can do for you --- it is just about thanking them for what they have already done. And kudos always goes over like gangbusters.