I used to be a unicorn. When I read nearly exclusively in Tolkien only archives, I did comment on everything I read; one year, I even commented on every single nominated story in the MEFAs (a difficult task I never attempted to repeat!)
When I broadened my reading to multi-fandom archives, I still commented on the Tolkien stories I read, but only rarely on stories in other fandoms.
Now, however, I seem to have less time. I often tell myself that I'm going to come back later, but rarely remember. Occasionally, I've composed a comment in my head and thought I'd made it, only to find later that it's not where I thought I'd put it.
Another factor is that much of my reading is now done on my iPod, which is rather awkward to use in commenting--so again, I'll tell myself I'll comment when I can sit down at my desktop, but seldom remember when the time comes.
So, though I still comment on most of the Tolkien stories I read, I'm not nearly a unicorn anymore, and probably am not even at 50% anymore.
I wonder how much the commenting/not commenting thing is affected by what device a person is reading the story on? Did your survey cover that?
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Date: 2017-03-24 04:07 am (UTC)When I broadened my reading to multi-fandom archives, I still commented on the Tolkien stories I read, but only rarely on stories in other fandoms.
Now, however, I seem to have less time. I often tell myself that I'm going to come back later, but rarely remember. Occasionally, I've composed a comment in my head and thought I'd made it, only to find later that it's not where I thought I'd put it.
Another factor is that much of my reading is now done on my iPod, which is rather awkward to use in commenting--so again, I'll tell myself I'll comment when I can sit down at my desktop, but seldom remember when the time comes.
So, though I still comment on most of the Tolkien stories I read, I'm not nearly a unicorn anymore, and probably am not even at 50% anymore.
I wonder how much the commenting/not commenting thing is affected by what device a person is reading the story on? Did your survey cover that?