Profiling

[levade]

I really dislike it when you go to an author's profile on any site and they have absolutely no bookmarks, no faves, no nothing. Just what they wrote. Why do I dislike it? Because....share what you find. If you love something, bookmark it, fave it, so the rest of us can find it too!

Geez, spread a little love, will ya and stop hoarding! I read your stuff, and I comment (and that's rare these days. Most readers just zip on without letting you know if they liked or hated something -- Facebook mentality: Can't love it or diss it, I'm gone). I know the awards try to fix this, but don't get me started on that. LOL.

It's funny to me though the more they talk about networking and social media, the more insular people get.

Go fig.

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[sparowe]

I'll keep that in mind. I think I have favourites on mine--we're talking FF.net, right?

[levade]

Or Archive of our Own or anywhere they let you do these things. It's just boggling to me that someone has NO bookmarks or faves. What, they post and run? Sorry, but when I see that I just don't even want to look at their stories.

[levade]

And that was a bit harsh, sorry. I just am a greedy little harpy who wants to find all the glorious fic treats, so I go snooping about on fave lists to see what others have found. It's how I found some of my favourite people, and stories! So, sorry. *wry grin* Always, always love to see what people liked.

I'm dying to dig into ST again, but I've worked so hard to avoid being spoilt before we see it with my mom this weekend! Not easy!

[sparowe]

No, it's okay. This is a valid thing, and if it makes a difference to you, it likely means something to other people, too. Though admittedly, views haven't been a problem for me, years after posting it, I'm still getting feedback. Really need to work on the second one, which has stalled as I've moved on to other things--but I think people deserve to know what happened. Also, I can't write the third until I write the second, but now I'm rambling.

Anyway, I haven't checked to see if my favourites are displayed or not. I'll do that next time I log in, probably. The only thing I can offer there is that... depending up on what I'm writing, I may not be comfortable sharing some of what I've read and enjoyed, especially if it's from another fandom. There's at least one Tales of Vesperia story that is pretty shocking, that I don't know what readers of Doctor Who and Burn Notice would make of, and I'm not sure if I'm comfortable being judged on that, if that makes sense.

[idleleaves]

... I have no bookmarks or faves on AO3 or FF.net. >_>

I used to save a ton of links to fics on Delicious before it went all arse-end-up, and I had that Delicious list linked in my profile. But now it's gooone. Rargh.

[levade]

Ah *.* I'm sorry to sound like a harpy! You know why I dislike it...is because I'm a greedy little reader. I love to see other people's shiny fic finds. I've found some of my favourite stories that way, and met other lovely people. So I guess I'm just whinging?

I had no idea that Delicious was gone!

Man. I've been out of it. o.O;

[idleleaves]

HEE. :D You don't sound like a harpy. You just reminded me of my long-ass bookmarks list.

Well, Delicious is still there, but it's so screwed-up now it may as well not be. I transferred all of my bookmarks to a different bookmarking sites, deleted my Delicious account, and then... the other site went belly-up. -_-

[idleleaves]

... And now I want to go back and see if they fixed all the splodey issues they had however many months ago when it was bought out. *goes off to see*