Standards for Commenting Deification

For me, I comment on every part of a serial. There are other authors who make a comment about how they like the way the story is going. That's me, too.

You never commented on ANY part of any serial of mine.

I do what Bendover does sometimes, although I've started commenting on the final part only, if it's a short serial that continues over the 3 or 4 parts of it. I also endeavour to reply to any comment that is made on any of my work.

When I comment on a short serial that is already completed, I have a tendency to comment only on the last part, but I try to make such comments a bit more extensive than my usual comments. I think the reason is that it feels a bit silly to make a comment before I know where the story is going, and that I am too lazy to go back when I have reached the end. Serials which are either so long that I don't complete them in one reading or which I read as they are getting published, I have greater tendency to comment piecewise.

Probably my wording was misleading (sometimes not so easy for a non-native speaker). But obviously there is a 'comment policy' here and a definition of 'meaningful' as stated in the 'Note to commenter' above the editing field for comments.

By the way:

the argument was not a matter of judging comments, commenter, authors, behaviour or anything like that, but a matter of statistical artifact (bias). The initial post was about 1 story read / 1 story commented and 100 stories read / 100 stories comment. Statistically ('deification') they are treated equal although regarded to be different. Same is true in case of serials. There are various 'meaningful' ways to comment, but all treated statistically(!) equal and some ways to comment (specifically a probably extensive comment about the serial as a whole attached to the last part) are statistically a handicap on the way to 'deification'.

Nevertheless, despite those biases the basic idea works, provides an incentive to commenter and helps to build up a community and interaction.

personally, I comment on every chapter of a serial. It helps the author know that you as a reader are keen for more and each part of a great ongoing storyi s worthy of comment if it it keeps the reader engaged.

As far as I understood the 'comment policy' is just a demand to say more than "nice story" all the time, but it's not necessary to write always a profound analysis. I think my commenting habit depends on many factors: the content and the quality of a story, my actual mood, the controversity of a story, the originality, points mentioned by other commenters, the time of the day, if it's one of my favourite authors or a new author and so on. I just comment if I feel like it, whatever rank this will be.

My own personal preference is that if you feel like commenting on a serial, comment at the end for sure. If something about a particular part grabs you, sure, comment on that too. But as an author when I see people commenting on one part but not at the end, I always wonder if they read the rest of it. I sometimes wish we had a special category for "most commented serials/series", just like for short stories. It would be interesting to see the results on that.