Here we go again

[potentiality_26]

It bothers me so much when people bookmark a fic on AO3 and say negative things about it (or even just say how they liked these parts of it but not those).  I mean I keep telling myself not to look at the bookmarks on my fics because I know I’m gonna see something that upsets me, but that means that I also have to miss out on the nice things other people wrote.

Making a negative bookmark, to me, is almost worse than leaving a negative comment because that way the writer can see those remarks, but they can't do anything about them either.

And if you can’t bring yourself to bookmark something without caveats, without also saying what you didn’t like about it, maybe you don’t really need to bookmark that thing.
 

Comments

[ride-4ever.livejournal.com]

WTF! I never looked at comments attached to bookmarks, so I didn't even know that Negative Bookmarks Is A Thing! *shakes head in incomprehension*

[potentiality-26.livejournal.com]

I think it only really happens in the bigger fandoms, so you might not have seen it. Like in my experience only maybe 25% of bookmarks even have comments on them, and only maybe 25% percent of those will be negative, so it's really not very many- but if you're scanning through the bookmarks people left and you see one, it's definitely a WTF moment.