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Is it customary here on Weasyl, to reply to comments given on pictures and journals and whatnot? I usually only reply if asked a question, but don't want to be impolite.
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I've had some nice conversations too. It's what encourages me to kinda force myself to talk more. ^^ I'm glad there are no social expectations on Weasyl yet. Takes the pressure off. XD
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No comments or replies necessary.
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I think it's less a matter of site habits and more a matter of personal opinion. I find it polite to reply to messages no matter what, but can understand than popular artists with a lot of traffic on their page may not have the time to reply to every single comment on their pages.
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I really don't get all that many comments, so if I forced myself I could probably reply to a good chunk of them. It's just that most of the time is spent sitting there, not knowing what to say. I could spend 10 minutes waffling over a one sentence comment because I MUST word it right, and a plain 'ol "thanks" isn't good enough. ^^
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Yeah, I had to force myself to change my habits and allow myself to let "short comments" be acceptable answers. Better than nothing!
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I know I used to try to reply to everything but I find I only respond to more... thought out comments I guess? Like when people say thats cool or thats really funny, I appreciate the time they took to comment but I found I was just typing a lot of thank you replies and it was a lot of effort to try and think of anything else to say.
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Yeah, if I can't think of something substantial to say I tend to stay quiet to avoid sounding robotic. To many "Thank you"s in a row start to sound a bit disingenuous.
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Personal preference entirely! I do it to get to know the people who like my work, help them feel appreciated etc. I've let it slide a bit lately though >8 Life just gets busy...
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That it does! Half of my office is still in boxes because of all the time I have to put into cleaning right now. Oi.
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It's not expected, but certainly welcome. Of course, that won't stop certain people from feeling you owe them a response.
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That's what worried me. I wanted to make sure it wasn't a sitewide feeling. :)
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I don't believe there's any sort of customs on here yet. Personally I don't expect it, but it's nice when it happens. I've had some awfully good conversations with people thanks to some out of the blue comment chains. :) Then again I'm biased, I go around commenting on journals and such all the time haha. Like now, for instance!