The "go here to vote for this" comment at the bottom of these always rankles me a bit. I guess that's something that community does, but I imagine it's not why you post there.
Huh, I'm so used to seeing that, it didn't occur to me that it would strike someone as weird. But yeah, I get that.
My main reason for doing these is that I love having them to look back on (and if it weren't for the LJ community, I wouldn't do them). But I have to admit it does give me a little thrill when I find that people have voted for mine. There's a more frequent poster to the community, spryng whose photography is better than everyone else's by leaps and bounds... but there are so many good stories in people's days, and I especially like the ones from faraway countries and climates. The thing about the voting is that it gives the reader a little push to read these *now* and not "when I have some down time," and it gives the poster an added impetus to try harder to tell the story well (or tell it at all).
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Date: 2014-04-13 02:44 pm (UTC)Also, mmmm Za.
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Date: 2014-04-13 03:16 pm (UTC)My main reason for doing these is that I love having them to look back on (and if it weren't for the LJ community, I wouldn't do them). But I have to admit it does give me a little thrill when I find that people have voted for mine. There's a more frequent poster to the community,