It's already Comment Day in some time zones, so it's time to release the stats form!

This is just an optional bonus, but if you are commenting on fic today, we thought it would be a fun idea to release a form to collect some basic info about the fics, so we could get some stats!

If you want, once you've commented on a fic, you can fill out this form! All the questions are optional, and should hopefully let us get some fun graphs. There's a place to rec the fic you commented on, too! And you can fill it out as many times as you want, for as many different fics as you comment on!

Let's look at some of the stats we've collected so far!

The most popular rating of fics to comment on was teen!

The most popular category was M/M, with F/M close behind.

People are mostly commenting on short pics, with 2001-5000 words making up a quarter of the fics commented on.

Our most popular fandom to be submitted is Harry Potter, with a whopping 16.4% of all fics submitted.

We added this question in late after someone submitted a live journal fic, so this graph isn't fully representative, but so far it looks like mostly people are finding fits on Ao3!

It looks like Angst is our most popular genre, with 38.2% of submissions including it, but that's followed by AU at 26.5%, and Canon-Compliant and Hurt/Comfort both at 25%

We've had 42 fics recced in the list so far, you can check them out in the form results or the Ao3 collection!

Hope you're all having a good comment day everybody!

Comment Day has come to an end (though of course we encourage you to comment every day you read something,) and it's time to look back at our stats form!

We had a total of 226 responses!

Teen is still our most popular rating overall, but Gen took the second place slot from Mature since last time we updated.

The most popular category was still M/M, with F/M close behind.

It looks like short fiction took it, with the most popular length of fic being 2001-5000 words, but it's notable that in the expanded spreadsheet you can still see that fics of over 50k and 100k were recced as well.

We added the one-shot question later, but still got a good response! And you can see that there's a pretty even split between one-shot and chaptered, and this went back and forth several times over the course of the day.

We got too many responses for google forms to do a breakdown of which fandoms people were from, but breaking into the spreadsheet shows that most fandoms were recced once or twice! The exceptions are Harry Potter, with 23 recs, and 일렉시드 | Eleceed (Webcomic), with 18. Biohazard | Resident Evil (Gameverse) also had 8!

The results were pretty heavily slanted towards Ao3, but FF.net made a strong showing as the evening came!

Angst was our lead response for genre for most of the day, but AUs took it in the last few hours, at 29.3% Au and 27.4% Angst! With strong showings also by Fluff (25%), Romance (23.6%), Canon-Divergent (23.6%), and Hurt/Comfort (19.7%).

We've had 93 fics recced, you can check them out in the form results or the Ao3 collection!

Hope you're all having a good comment day everybody!

It's already Comment Day in some time zones, so it's time to release the stats form!

This is just an optional bonus, but if you are commenting on fic today, we thought it would be a fun idea to release a form to collect some basic info about the fics, so we could get some stats!

If you want, once you've commented on a fic, you can fill out this form! All the questions are optional, and should hopefully let us get some fun graphs. There's a place to rec the fic you commented on, too! And you can fill it out as many times as you want, for as many different pics as you comment on!

It's already Comment Day in some time zones, so it's time to release the stats form!

This is just an optional bonus, but if you are commenting on fic today, we thought it would be a fun idea to release a form to collect some basic info about the fics, so we could get some stats!

If you want, once you've commented on a fic, you can fill out this form! All the questions are optional, and should hopefully let us get some fun graphs. There's a place to rec the fic you commented on, too! And you can fill it out as many times as you want, for as many different pics as you comment on!

It's already Comment Day in some time zones, so it's time to release the stats form!

This is just an optional bonus, but if you are commenting on fic today, we thought it would be a fun idea to release a form to collect some basic info about the fics, so we could get some stats!

If you want, once you've commented on a fic, you can fill out this form! All the questions are optional, and should hopefully let us get some fun graphs. There's a place to rec the fic you commented on, too! And you can fill it out as many times as you want, for as many different pics as you comment on!

About This Event

You know when you leave a really long comment on a fic? Something that makes you go 'oh man if only I could bring this energy to my regular deadlines', but you just gotta tell someone how awesome their work is? What if we had a whole day celebrating that?

What is this event? Comment Day is a celebration of leaving comments on beloved fic, both to tell the author what their work means to you, and to appreciate reflecting on the parts of a work you enjoy! We all pick a fic (or maybe several fics, if you wanna go hard) that is our favourite, and work on a really detailed, fun, personalized comment, and on Comment Day we all go out and leave someone a comment that will make their day.

This blog will have tips and tricks about crafting a good comment, polls and graphics collecting stats for the event and a general celebration about how fun leaving comments can be. You don't normally get to tell the creator how awesome their work is with things like books or movies, we get to do that with fic, and isn't that fantastic?

Date: 15 September, 2024, whatever time zone that takes place in for you.

Tips on Commenting:

Comment Day Stats

Ao3 Collection (so you can bookmark fics you commented on to a big collaborative collection).

Comments are a critical part of the fandom ecosystem. But sometimes it can feel hard to think of what to say and I get all tangled up and just don't write anything.

I have 2 go-to comments when I want to be supportive but my brain won't brain. This could be a strategy that helps you comment more often too!

Mine are:

That was great. Thanks for writing and sharing. ❤️

Second read, second kudos ❤️

It's already Comment Day in some time zones, so it's time to release the stats form!

This is just an optional bonus, but if you are commenting on fic today, we thought it would be a fun idea to release a form to collect some basic info about the fics, so we could get some stats!

If you want, once you've commented on a fic, you can fill out this form! All the questions are optional, and should hopefully let us get some fun graphs. There's a place to rec the fic you commented on, too! And you can fill it out as many times as you want, for as many different fics as you comment on!

So far, we've had 140 people fill out the form with fics they've commented on! 15 of them are for fics under 1000 words, and on the other end of the spectrum we've had submissions for 3 fics over 200,000 words: for Biohazard | Resident Evil (Gameverse), Doctor Who, and it didn't have a listed fandom but it was F/F Darkfic@

Ao3 Collection!

We decided to take a step further and set up an Ao3 collection to bookmark fics we comment on! If you are on Ao3, you can bookmark to this collection as well!

Comment Day Collection

To bookmark a fic to the collection, when you bookmark a fic just add CommentDay2024 in the collections field of the bookmark!

Go forth and bookmark, if you want!

We're up to 50 works bookmarked in the collection!

So many lovely comments!

It's already Comment Day in some time zones, so it's time to release the stats form!

This is just an optional bonus, but if you are commenting on fic today, we thought it would be a fun idea to release a form to collect some basic info about the fics, so we could get some stats!

If you want, once you've commented on a fic, you can fill out this form! All the questions are optional, and should hopefully let us get some fun graphs. There's a place to rec the fic you commented on, too! And you can fill it out as many times as you want, for as many different pics as you comment on!

It's already Comment Day in some time zones, so it's time to release the stats form!

This is just an optional bonus, but if you are commenting on fic today, we thought it would be a fun idea to release a form to collect some basic info about the fics, so we could get some stats!

If you want, once you've commented on a fic, you can fill out this form! All the questions are optional, and should hopefully let us get some fun graphs. There's a place to rec the fic you commented on, too! And you can fill it out as many times as you want, for as many different fics as you comment on!

Let's look at some of the stats we've collected so far!

The most popular rating of fics to comment on was teen!

The most popular category was M/M, with F/M close behind.

People are mostly commenting on short pics, with 2001-5000 words making up a quarter of the fics commented on.

Our most popular fandom to be submitted is Harry Potter, with a whopping 16.4% of all fics submitted.

We added this question in late after someone submitted a live journal fic, so this graph isn't fully representative, but so far it looks like mostly people are finding fits on Ao3!

It looks like Angst is our most popular genre, with 38.2% of submissions including it, but that's followed by AU at 26.5%, and Canon-Compliant and Hurt/Comfort both at 25%

We've had 93 fics recced in the list so far, you can check them out in the form results or the Ao3 collection!

Hope you had a good day, everybody! We'll see you this time next year, and in between, in the comments of our favourite fics. :D

It's already Comment Day in some time zones, so it's time to release the stats form!

This is just an optional bonus, but if you are commenting on fic today, we thought it would be a fun idea to release a form to collect some basic info about the fics, so we could get some stats!

If you want, once you've commented on a fic, you can fill out this form! All the questions are optional, and should hopefully let us get some fun graphs. There's a place to rec the fic you commented on, too! And you can fill it out as many times as you want, for as many different pics as you comment on!

It's already Comment Day in some time zones, so it's time to release the stats form!

This is just an optional bonus, but if you are commenting on fic today, we thought it would be a fun idea to release a form to collect some basic info about the fics, so we could get some stats!

If you want, once you've commented on a fic, you can fill out this form! All the questions are optional, and should hopefully let us get some fun graphs. There's a place to rec the fic you commented on, too! And you can fill it out as many times as you want, for as many different pics as you comment on!

It's already Comment Day in some time zones, so it's time to release the stats form!

This is just an optional bonus, but if you are commenting on fic today, we thought it would be a fun idea to release a form to collect some basic info about the fics, so we could get some stats!

If you want, once you've commented on a fic, you can fill out this form! All the questions are optional, and should hopefully let us get some fun graphs. There's a place to rec the fic you commented on, too! And you can fill it out as many times as you want, for as many different pics as you comment on!

It's already Comment Day in some time zones, so it's time to release the stats form!

This is just an optional bonus, but if you are commenting on fic today, we thought it would be a fun idea to release a form to collect some basic info about the fics, so we could get some stats!

If you want, once you've commented on a fic, you can fill out this form! All the questions are optional, and should hopefully let us get some fun graphs. There's a place to rec the fic you commented on, too! And you can fill it out as many times as you want, for as many different pics as you comment on!