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

[daasgrrl.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's coward's feedback, basically. I don't actually mind if they liked it with reservations, I'm okay with that, but bookmarking it with nothing else but a "whatever" kind of comment I just don't get. I was a bit 0.0 at someone who liked to attach huge comments to their bookmarks basically outlining the entire plot of the fic, but maybe that could go either way with readers, idk.

[potentiality-26.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's really odd when a fic gets bookmarked with "it's all right" or something, like you went through a lot of trouble for something you apparently didn't care much about, whoever you are.

I haven't seen bookmarks like that myself, but they sound weird.