Comment Archival 3: Not Mine

from https://www.fimfiction.net/story/394212/4/mother-of-the-hives/3-the-concert

https://www.fimfiction.net/user/163636/Iso_the_Werewolf said:

If comments are author food could you describe the many flavors of comments?

https://www.fimfiction.net/user/27863/Voldine said:

As a fellow author this is how I classify them:
Spicy - Comments that get the author feeling a bit worked up about how much a person is gushing over their story.
Salty - Tears of bitter fans whining about how plot point x or y messes up their waifu and makes the story Ruined Forever!
Sour - Comments that offer nothing but vile insults as to the quality of your work without actually making the criticism valid by pointing out examples.
Sweet - "awesome" "Great story" "Instant fave" Comments that are nice but offer little substance. They indicate that people are at least enjoying what you write, but they aren't as satisfying as a comment that gives you an opportunity to engage with the reader outside of the chapters.
Bitter - Criticism that is both deserved and detailed enough to point out a number of small flaws in such a way that fixes are easy to see and implement, leaving you wondering how the hell you were dumb enough to make the mistake in the first place.
Buttery - Comments that compliment the story in multiple ways, showing that readers are engaged enough to leave something more than a pithy one or two words. This can be something as simple as people making a guess about a plot point or even engaging the author in a small debate over a detail in the story.
Favorite food - Full-on multi-paragraph essays of comments that not only show that a reader is engaged, but that they CARE about the characters in the story. Short comments that do the same thing in fewer words. Anything that truly shows that the writer is properly conveying the emotions behind situations and has not only engaged the readers via piquing their interest, but by managing to tug at the strings of their hearts and play a resonating melody that truly moves the reader. These tend to be generated more by heavily emotional scenes, but a good writer knows better than to abuse their readers by making bad things happen too often. Nobody wants Darkness Induced Audience Apathy.

I will extend this that sometimes a simple bookshelf placement can be a fine wine or delightful snack if the person placing it has given a unique bookshelf name. I have a bookshelf with only two stories in it that is called 'made me laugh so hard I had an asthma attack' and I have seen one of my stories put on someone's bookshelf entitled 'Praise this story, Praise it!'