Whisperspace is a great word for that! I'll check my favorited by others comments every so often, and I always have to fight the feeling that it's narcissistic. But most of what I end up taking away what people are reading at that moment, and it's always fun to realize that someone is going through an old thread or obviously doing a Star Trek rewatch.
I'll sometimes use favorites as a bookmark, but most of the time it's an 'I agree with you' or 'this is an interesting idea and you should feel good', which I think is pretty common.
The thing about using the tags on tumblr is that tumblr is so open that the whisperspace feels even more necessary. Everyone could click back and see my tags, too, but chances are only the people on my feed are going to see them. With dreamwidth, I'm not worried about my post going viral, but it would be kind of nice to have a low-interaction bump.
And now I'm thinking about kudos/commenting on Ao3, where there's a contingent that believes that the existence of kudos leads to fewer substantive comments, because people will take the lower energy route. I'm skeptical that the resulting comment would say much more than 'I like this', but hey.
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Date: 2019-01-24 03:44 am (UTC)I'll sometimes use favorites as a bookmark, but most of the time it's an 'I agree with you' or 'this is an interesting idea and you should feel good', which I think is pretty common.
The thing about using the tags on tumblr is that tumblr is so open that the whisperspace feels even more necessary. Everyone could click back and see my tags, too, but chances are only the people on my feed are going to see them. With dreamwidth, I'm not worried about my post going viral, but it would be kind of nice to have a low-interaction bump.
And now I'm thinking about kudos/commenting on Ao3, where there's a contingent that believes that the existence of kudos leads to fewer substantive comments, because people will take the lower energy route. I'm skeptical that the resulting comment would say much more than 'I like this', but hey.