What's it take to get YOU to click Like on a comic you read?

[QueenofBabyLoon]

As always, you are the most careful, the most sensitive soul on here.

And you are right, depending on an individual's maturity level, he/she might not appreciate friendly advice and view it as a form of personal attack. We tend to get so invested into our art we forget that ideas are not part of us, but rather independent entities that have decided for a time being to share our path.

But people change, people mature throughout their lifetime. So that one comment that made them click their tongue, reconsider their own work, swear at you and cry, might come in very handy 10 years down the road. It is very obvious when someone is writing a comment out of malice as opposed to when someone is trying to help (though the help might not be welcome at one specific moment in time).

[xabelmind]

It looks like those who are creating feel the importance of giving a like, leave a comment or support

What's difficult is to convince those who only read to give at least likes. I comprehend that's really comfortable to wander around and not leave trace, who didn't do that?

Even so, I just started the second chapter of my work, this one:

Under Satyr's Orders | Tapas

And decided to post my first ink-goal.

I went crazy and made a goal with three levels: "hit the goal", "hit the goal before the chapter ends" and "get to 70 supporters". And, thinking about that, this week it came to my mind counting the likes (100 likes = +1 supporter) to help reach the third level of the goal

I have no freaking idea of what will come out of this, but I'm pretty sure many of my readers doesn't even take the time to read the info in my comment, so maybe I take @graveweaver advise and start creating something more visual to put under the update

If someone else here had a similar idea, please, tell me, I wanna know

[Maps]

I generally try to like every chapter of comics that I follow/read as a thanks to the author for their hard work. I’m also am picky about what I follow, so if I’m following, I usually am enjoying the work/story.

[vothnthorvaldson]

It is very obvious when someone is writing a comment out of malice as opposed to when someone is trying to help (to the help might not be welcome at one specific moment in time).

Well, you know, sometimes I wonder if it's that's clear to everyone. It feels to me like there is a significant number of persons that takes even constructive criticism as being somewhat malicious as soon as it comes from fellow artists and not non-artist readers; maybe because of the competitiveness, with so many comics around? Maybe I'm being overcareful. But for sure I'm more comfortable giving my opinions to people who are on the forum because I have an idea of what they expect.

[Klaustasya]

My answer is pretty plain XD
I click the like and eventually comment too when i REALLY enjoy what i'm reading. Sometimes i value more the art than the story, like...i start analyzing it and when i really like it if the story has a good steady plot i will automatically subscribe

[TopJimComics]

What's difficult is to convince those who only read to give at least likes. I comprehend that's really comfortable to wander around and not leave trace, who didn't do that?

This, so much this. I wish readers understood how valuable a like is for hitting Tapas algorithms. Like sometimes I'll post an update and it resonates well with my friends and my views might be 10x higher than average. But since most of them aren't on Tapas, I get no likes and so it doesn't show up anywhere. I'm still happy because it was well received, but it'd be nice if opened a new door to find potential subscribers.

[QueenofBabyLoon]

A critique is never welcome to anyone. I will give you an example from a Southern European having lived in the Western world. In the Western world, when your child draws you something, you praise it with words such as "good", "beautiful", etc. In Southern Europe (at least, back in the times when my mom was raised), you would say "not bad", and that is actual praise. So, when I was a child, bringing back crafts from kindergarten, I was expecting the praise my kindergarten teacher gave me. Well, I got the "not bad". And was very piqued and insulted. It got worse when my mother wanted to show me how to do it even better.

Whose fault is it that I sulked and did not take my mother's praise, that did indeed imply there was place for improvement, but that did not in any way insult what I had achieved up until then, quite the contrary? My immaturity, obviously.

More than 20 years later, that "not bad" has actually become the strength I try to build on.

Yes, people will take the smallest suggestion as the beginning of the Cold War and get ready to place nukes all around you, however ten years down the road, your comment might give them strength.

[TopJimComics]

you would say "not bad", and that is actual praise

[Before I make my joke, I want to totally agree with you]

If you think of good/bad as binary, then [not bad] = good?

(apologies for the bad engineer humor)

[xabelmind]

You know, when they are only readers, I guess we look a bit like the enemy.

I mean, we give them content to enjoy but also bother them asking for likes, comments and support

Like enjoying a series and have to bare with the ads, no?

The point is, in psichology related with marketing, repeating is the key. They say the more you get to see an ad about a product, the more you get familiarized with it, the more likely you'll buy it

And reading things like: "I forget to give a like if I don't see the message in the update" presses in that point really hard

Even so, it comes to a time when you desensibilize and stop seeing the ad even if it's in front of you

But @graveweaver made me thought. Maybe changing the ad makes something, at least there're those brands that make various versions of the ad, no?

I'm having an epifany...

I'm not an expert, don't get nuts, eh?

Also, it's not worthy if the quality of the product doesn't meet the level of exigence of the potencial client

[mong2]

For those of you that don't often click Like, are you a Creator or a Reader?

Reader

You know, when they are only readers, I guess we look a bit like the enemy.

I mean, we give them content to enjoy but also bother them asking for likes, comments and support

Like enjoying a series and have to bare with the ads, no?

I don't see creator's as enemies when they ask for likes/comments/support. It's not as though I'm being forced to like/comment/support in any way, it's still my decision whether to do it or not. Besides, a lot of people really do forget. I'm fine with leaving adblock off for Tapas since they don't bother me when reading comics.

[xabelmind]

It's just my point of view, since I have photographic memory and repeated info irritates me

[mrtoontastic]

EVERYTHING. IT TAKES EVERYTHING to get me to click like.

[QueenofBabyLoon]

Has a degree in engineering herself.

Approves of the geeky, clumsy, unfunny joke. Laughs it out.

But truly, that is how we see it. If it isn't bad, it must be some type of good.

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[Lady_DarkStar]

If it makes me laugh, or at least smile, I'll click the heart.

[simplykit]

really good art style

or a really funny story

im nice like that too

[feardeer]

I'm more likely to give a like if it's a less popular comic that I enjoy, if I know/am familiar with the creator, if it's a big moment in the comic I've been looking forward to, if it's a really beautiful and/or ambitious page, or if it otherwise stands out in a positive way.

I'm less likely to give a like if the content on the page is very negative. Even if it's a beautiful page, it's hard for me to hit like on a page where the MC is having a mental breakdown or something like that.

[KoreanTacos]

Not trying to be smart, but what if the mental breakdown is something the character is having in order to grow more as opposed to tearing down. Like it needed to happen.

[corasan]

I neither like nor comment on comic pages, but the reason has nothing to do with the comics, and everything to do with Tapas's extremely poor privacy options. I have hidden my subscription list from my profile, but there is no way to hide the list of likes and comments. There's no point in hiding the list, only to create a new one by interacting with the comics I read.

If it were possible to disable this part of the profile page, I would have no problem liking and commenting.

(Yeah, I know comments and likes would be visible on the comics I left them on, but I have a lot less of a problem with that than with a collated list of all my activity in one place.)

[feardeer]

Oh, I actually love emotional turmoil and that kind of thing as part of character/plot development in what I read. It's more like... If I hit that like button right now, I feel like I'm saying "yeah i love to see this character suffer." Something like that. It's probably silly, but that's my logic haha.

But if the page is somehow uplifting, despite the negativity, I would still give it a like.