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[yvannairie]

I enjoy how Rekudo still gets both people being mad at me for saying "maybe understand that you doing nothing to engage the authors writing the fics you like so much demotivates those authors" and saying "an automated comment from someone who reread your fic and forgot they'd left kudos already may be the first and only comment someone might be able and willing to send".

Like it was one thing if either of those were my stated goal but like shit, I just made a tool. At this point it's up to people to figure out how to use that tool for themselves. If people think someone is using a tool I made wrong, take it up with those people instead of leaving me condescending comments about either Wrong Way of Doing It.

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[yvannairie]

The condescension is really what gets me. "If you have nothing to say then don't say anything" why are you saying that as an addition at the end of my reply about how Rekudo came about at least partially out of desperation to get readers to understand writers are people too.

[palominocorn]

Not to mention that... if someone is installing Rekudo it's because... they WANT to leave the "second kudos" comments on stuff they've reread? You're not breaking into people's homes and forcibly installing it on their browsers...

Like I have a lot of things that I don't say not because I don't want to say them but because: anxiety! Brainweird makes it hard to say(/type) the words in a lot of ways! How nice that there's at least one easy little script people can use to get past said brainweird!

[yvannairie]

YEAH EXACTLY that was my reaction to people being like "but I don't want to leave a comment, I just want to be able to click like again" like cool, don't install Rekudo and go talk to Ao3 about changing how kudos works!

I have slightly more sympathy for people who are like "I don't like the idea of receiving automated comments" but it's limited because all of them a) act like I think automated comments are the end-all-be-all of solving the feedback problem and b) most of them have said something about "leaving a real comment" instead while ignoring that Rekudo also comes with the "comment assist mode" by default now and it actually gives people actionable advice on how to leave a personalised comment, lmao.