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I absolutely understand that there are a myriad of reasons why someone wouldn't FB a fic, even a fic they quite liked. What weirds me out (rather than just frustrating me, as not feedbacking does) is when someone recs something (and I mean a straight-up rec, not a mention in a comment thread with somebody or a "Hey, Friend X, you'd love Story L" or anything like that) but doesn't fb it. I admit to reading fic by someone I had a personal falling out with and whom therefore I can't bring myself to send fb to but some of which stories I recced because I thought they were that good. But I would think if you were too tired/busy/whatever to fb a story, even just to say, "I loved this," wouldn't you be too whatever to rec it? Though I suppose sometimes people do single line recs but wanna write more in-depth if they're sending fb. [Because I have all sorts of weird feelings about reccing without fb-ing, I have a backlog of fics to rec which I haven't fbed yet. But I am as always an outlier.]
In Lorraine's reply to my comment, she mentioned treating recs like fb, whcih seems fair to me. I just can't get away from my personal feeling of weirdness at reccing without fbing.
[Oh, and Lorraine, I remembered something else relevant to your comment about getting no response to fb. One thing I've seen come up a lot in the discussions about feedbacking is authors feeling weird responding when all they have to say is "Thanks."]
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I absolutely understand that there are a myriad of reasons why someone wouldn't FB a fic, even a fic they quite liked. What weirds me out (rather than just frustrating me, as not feedbacking does) is when someone recs something (and I mean a straight-up rec, not a mention in a comment thread with somebody or a "Hey, Friend X, you'd love Story L" or anything like that) but doesn't fb it. I admit to reading fic by someone I had a personal falling out with and whom therefore I can't bring myself to send fb to but some of which stories I recced because I thought they were that good. But I would think if you were too tired/busy/whatever to fb a story, even just to say, "I loved this," wouldn't you be too whatever to rec it? Though I suppose sometimes people do single line recs but wanna write more in-depth if they're sending fb. [Because I have all sorts of weird feelings about reccing without fb-ing, I have a backlog of fics to rec which I haven't fbed yet. But I am as always an outlier.]
In Lorraine's reply to my comment, she mentioned treating recs like fb, whcih seems fair to me. I just can't get away from my personal feeling of weirdness at reccing without fbing.
[Oh, and Lorraine, I remembered something else relevant to your comment about getting no response to fb. One thing I've seen come up a lot in the discussions about feedbacking is authors feeling weird responding when all they have to say is "Thanks."]