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fic writers love & appreciate comments with all our hearts. we do. but i wanted to make it clear that just because a writer doesn& #39;t respond to your comment, it doesn& #39;t mean they don& #39;t care about it or that they don& #39;t appreciate you reading their work. [thread]
i understand feeling ignored, or being anxious that the author didn& #39;t like what you said. partly i& #39;m writing this thread to try and assuage those worries. readers & their comments mean the world to writers, your enthusiasm & encouragement is what fuels us!
i can& #39;t speak for every writer, but personally i know i read every comment on all of my fics. i try to respond to as many of them as i can, even if it& #39;s a simple "thank you!" however that& #39;s my own choice and not every author is obligated to do the same thing-
i sometimes see readers saying they don& #39;t feel the need to comment if the author doesn& #39;t respond to comments. and of course, no reader is obligated to comment. however, if that& #39;s the only reason you& #39;re not commenting, i just wanted to try and put some things in perspective-
think of fic comments as similar to leaving a tip at a restaurant. it& #39;s not necessary per se, but it& #39;s a token of gratitude. and you don& #39;t expect the waiter to give you a tip in return. they already provided the service for you.
this isn& #39;t a perfect analogy, because it takes less time to pull a few bills from your wallet than to type out a long comment. but hopefully you get what i mean. the writer already wrote & published an entire (free!) story. they don& #39;t owe a long response to every comment.
there& #39;s also a lot of other factors to consider i.e. the writer might have a lot of other comments to respond to, they might have social anxiety, they& #39;re not sure how to respond to something, they& #39;re overwhelmed with work/school/life/etc.
just speaking for myself (and i& #39;m sure for many other writers too) comments can really make my entire day. i& #39;ve gotten wonderful comments that moved me to tears. i wish i could respond to every single one. and i just hope readers know how much their kind words are appreciated.
so please don& #39;t feel discouraged from commenting on something solely because you think the writer won& #39;t respond (or that they& #39;ll only give you a short response). there& #39;s many reasons why they might not reply, but none of them are that we don& #39;t appreciate you. 
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