AO3 musing

[soc_puppet]

I kinda wish it were possible for logged-in users to leave guest-marked kudos on archive-locked works. Or like. Kudos by users who would prefer to remain anonymous? (In general would be great, honestly; yes, you can just log out and log back in again, but that's more of a hassle than most people want to go to.)

Being able to leave anonymous comments on archive-locked posts seems like a recipe for harassment, but just leaving anonymized kudos? Might help with the problem of logged in users being reluctant to leave kudos on Explicit fics, particularly those with more stigmatized kinks.

IDK, I'm not sure how it would work, but I think the idea has at least a little merit. And me wanting my explicit fics to get more kudos and attention might be part of it, too.

Comments

[krait]

Huh.

Every now and then I'm confronted with the fact that other people put a lot more thought into these things than I do. I leave kudos on fics I like, regardless of rating or content. The internetFandom is for porn, why would people not leave kudos on porny fic? Seems silly to me to read it but not kudos it! Support your pornfic authors, or else you won't have any more porny fic to read...

[soc_puppet]

It's part of the purity culture takeover of fandom, unfortunately. People are afraid to identify-ably interact with "problematic" fics, and with how some of the harassment campaigns are going these days, I can't say I blame them. I've also heard of some authors not correctly tagging their fics because bad actors would peruse the tags in order to harass anyone who wrote that stuff.

Anyway, it's not something that I tend to come across in my own fandom interactions, but with fandom climate as it currently is, I can say I sympathize. Around ten years ago, my anxiety was much less well managed and I was irrationally afraid of being perceived as consuming fic in a fandom I didn't "belong" to; there's a whole fandom that I read a lot of fics for that I don't know if I left any kudos on because of that, logged in or otherwise. Which was very much a me problem, and I'm glad I worked it out, but yeah. Sympathy.