I think for the livestreaming thing, though it might be a nuisance, you'd probably have to ask the mods of each challenge you were thinking of doing it for -- I'm not sure there's a universal norm.
I'm terrible at replying to comments, so I feel you on it. I'd say that people will almost never react negatively to getting a comment reply, no matter how delayed, but that you shouldn't feel guilty or be kept away from present or future interactions by the sense that you have to answer comments first if it feels weird or like a chore to you. Basically, do what you want. The one thing I would probably avoid is answering selectively, actually, because if someone does happen to notice that you came back and answered half your comments on a post but not the other half it might make them feel bad. Maybe if there's some super-helpful feedback that you want to respond to without answering comments en masse you might PM the person who left it?
It's pretty universally agreed that commenting has fallen across LJ fandom. Fewer people are active here, even those who are often look at art on Tumblr and read fic on AO3 and think of LJ as more social than fanwork oriented. And of course a lot of people have drifted away from particular fandoms, even if they are still around in general. For me personally it's a combination of doing a lot more of my art consumption on Tumblr and being pretty iffy about Sam/Dean in the wake of the s9 consent issues (even when fanworks are past or future or AU or not set at any particular time, I find it hard not to be affected by whatever my feelings about current canon are).
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I think for the livestreaming thing, though it might be a nuisance, you'd probably have to ask the mods of each challenge you were thinking of doing it for -- I'm not sure there's a universal norm.
I'm terrible at replying to comments, so I feel you on it. I'd say that people will almost never react negatively to getting a comment reply, no matter how delayed, but that you shouldn't feel guilty or be kept away from present or future interactions by the sense that you have to answer comments first if it feels weird or like a chore to you. Basically, do what you want. The one thing I would probably avoid is answering selectively, actually, because if someone does happen to notice that you came back and answered half your comments on a post but not the other half it might make them feel bad. Maybe if there's some super-helpful feedback that you want to respond to without answering comments en masse you might PM the person who left it?
It's pretty universally agreed that commenting has fallen across LJ fandom. Fewer people are active here, even those who are often look at art on Tumblr and read fic on AO3 and think of LJ as more social than fanwork oriented. And of course a lot of people have drifted away from particular fandoms, even if they are still around in general. For me personally it's a combination of doing a lot more of my art consumption on Tumblr and being pretty iffy about Sam/Dean in the wake of the s9 consent issues (even when fanworks are past or future or AU or not set at any particular time, I find it hard not to be affected by whatever my feelings about current canon are).