potofsoup

Thanks for all the helpful advice! Yeah, having the email notifs in a separate folder has helped me a lot. As is waiting for a bunch of comments to accrue on a post and then commenting directly on the page instead of hitting reply on the email.

> It was the same on Tumblr, right?
Hmm... not exactly? I chose the word "participant" on purpose, because on tumblr, you have an audience, and if one of my posts explodes and gets a crapton of notes, it usually doesn't require actual interaction or conversation from me. Whereas on DW, a post seems to be written to a group of potential participants to the conversation, and not just a mass of potential audience/consumers for the information. I think it's an important distinction and it's one that I value. It just takes some brain-switching, and perhaps some soul searching about what I want out of fandom -- the audience:participant ratio, if you will.