The Bookmark Thing Is Really Minor - Tumblr Posts

just saw a person on ao3 who bookmarks fics and leaves public ratings and criticisms of them in the bookmarks and hmmmmmmmm

i think people forget that unless you make a bookmark private, anyone can see it. a writer can see the criticism you’re giving them, even if you don’t comment it.

the bookmark comment i got wasn’t even that bad, i just saw worse ones when i clicked on OP’s account. they’ve written digs or unnecessary comments on most of their bookmarks (eg “umm nothing happened. i thought there would be more??” or “ummm not like amazing, also no plot, but like, i liked the idea”)

it’s never even occurred to me to bookmark something i haven’t enjoyed a lot, and i definitely wouldn’t leave a criticism - if i were to do that, i would make the bookmark private because i know how discouraging it can be for writers.

idk, i guess generally the fact that some people still think it’s okay to leave mean comments on fics is baffling to me. i still get the odd hate comment/criticism here and there, and mostly i just ignore because there’s no point interacting, but i feel like this bears repeating ; criticism of someone’s writing - when unsolicited - does so much damage. even when it is solicited, people should be more careful with how they handle it. one nasty comment is literally all it can take to break someone’s confidence.