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

[potentiality-26.livejournal.com]

Yeah, exactly!

I'm not sure how those work (I don't really use bookmarks, I just add a fic to my favorites or download it if I really like it) but if private bookmarks allow you to make comments without the writer being able to see them, then yeah, that would be the place to do it.