User blog comment:Brandon Service DF/The Commenting Community, and How to Improve It/@comment-24322797-20160217180220

my thoughts~

this website as a whole has an unlikely community of people who come together over a common interest; erb. that interest is further explored by people who release fanmade battles because it's something to talk about and it kind of fuels this community a bit more than if they didn't exist or if they had been moved to an entirely different website (which from what I've been told, has been attempted before) thats not to say that the entire website would go silent without fanmade battles, but a majority of the time you see something on the recent wiki activity, it's on a fanmade battle or a new announcement blog for some artform someone else is making

when someone posts a tiny comment without much indepth review or insight, it's not to negate the battle as a whole or say "I don't feel like putting time into reviewing it." for instance, there's been several battles that I literally just commented "nice." on because I enjoyed it and didn't see anything particularly worth commenting about otherwise. if the title cards stood out, the beat was cool, the lyrics were exceptionally great or one person was exceptionally superior to the other, then I'll include that. but if it's just standard format like the rest of the battles before it, then yes, it's still great, but I don't feel it warrants a specifically new review from me

to answer your question of "is someones day made from such a simple response as "____ won good battle", the answer, for me at least, is yes. this comment signifies that not only did the person read (some/all) of it, but they also liked it enough to choose a specific winner and let me know they enjoyed it. that alone is proof that the battle was a success if at least one person liked it. now of course in the context of "I'm only commenting this because you asked me to", that's obviously a bit different and is really only a sympathizer for your friend that wants more comments. On to the next point regarding that,

the amount of comments someone gets isn't even always proportional to the amount of times they advertise it. For me at least, sending the link to a battle on chat says "hey guys if you're interested then check this out" more than it does "hey guys read this and give me a review" like I believe you said. (of course the case could be way different for others as I don't speak for people on this site.) I would agree that the "Desperation" for comments from some people can be a bit excessive and the "need" to be on the front blogspot is out of hand sometimes, but at the end of the day, that stuff doesn't matter remotely. Getting on the blogspot can mean anything from "you made a good battle and a lot of people suggested and commented" to "joe said the grinch isn't a cartoon character and a huge arguement ensued." Let's take your example of Legion and Cyan. Legion and Cyan don't get to the top blogspot as often as someone like wonder or TK, but that's not because their writing is of detrimentally less quality. If anything, I'd chalk it up to their battles featuring more obscure characters that the majority of wiki might not be familiar or interested in.

does this mean cyan and legion are unsuccessful? no. should they change their forumla? certainly not. because they enjoy making these battles with these characters and that's really all there is to it. making battles on here isn't a business, (and again I don't speak for the majority but this is just my impression) making battles is basically a hobby that's done for fun because the vast majority of people on this website enjoy reading them. it's basically making a cool piece of art or movie and saying "hey guys check this out you might like it." When it's all put in perspective, comments are usually just words of encouragement saying "Hey. I read this. It was cool." and don't always need to be super indepth to count.

wow that was a clusterfuck of incoherent thoughts that probably wronged itself several times, but I thiiink that's all I have to say. probably going to go back and edit this later because I said something I didn't mean to