for me... responding to feedback takes a lot of... energy.

y'know...i just came back and reread your comments and started to realize that for me it's never about someone falling bhind on responding to a popular story or even not responding at all...we all get overwhelmed or just can't catch up or have RL issues interfere...it's the systematic no-reply policy or (almost worse) the selective policy (i'll only respond to my friends).

i'd never get upset about not getting a response on a story or two or even three...it's no responses on involved emails and consistent refusal to acknowledge comment feedback that drives my policy, at least... [and i know othersfeel different, though i don't seem to be alone in my feelings...]