#nomorezerocomments

[astaldis]

The Witcher Short & Funny - Fic Rec

For a quick laugh (how did this not have a single comment???)

Imagine you are stuck in quarantine with Geralt and Jaskier by TheHirsch

Gen; Published: 2020-04-09; Words: 349

[can-tab-eater-offical]

Oh yeah time to go on ao3 and search for my favourite tags by comments: ascending!!

@nomorezerocomments, you've inspired me

[madeofcheese]

Just left my 30th comment* on @nomorezerocomments project. One night I commented so many fics I had mild motivation outage. Lesson learned, don't over do it x'D

*I might have forgot to write up some fic

[blogger360ncislarules]

Seeing what @nomorezerocomments is doing for A03 writers is making me wish someone would do the same for FF.Net writers.

There's not a lot of new comments on there these days, and the ones that get them are mostly long time writers with established audiences. And not to mention, there's a lot of spam comments and spam followers as well, :(

[totallynotmeems]

y'all if you like spreadsheets, or love engagement on fics, check out both @/nomorezerocomments & @/fanfic-reading-challenge!

honorable mention (no spreadsheet): @/justleaveacommentfest

[nomorezerocomments]

ATTENTION EVENT RUNNERS

Do you run a fic writing event? Do your participants like comments? Well I have something for you!

The No More Zero Comments Project is a community effort to reduce the number of fics on ao3 with no comments at all. You can read more about it in our pinned post, but we have a spreadsheet of fics with no comments here, and you can submit your own fics to be added to it here. We've gotten 150+ comments so far using this spreadsheet, so it definitely works!

I find that fics for fandom and prompt events tend to get less comments (from personal experience), so if you run an event, please reblog this post (or our pinned post) so your participants can see it and hopefully get involved. Thank you!!!

[nomorezerocomments]

hey lads this might take a while

I got curious a minute ago and pulled some AO3 numbers.

I'm too lazy to fiddle with the bucket sizes to make this look better.

[nomorezerocomments]

alright! everything that has been submitted so far in now in the spreadsheet. theres 89 fics in there, for tonnes and tonnes of different fandoms. take a look!

[nomorezerocomments]

No More Zero Comments Project

Hi! Here's a big masterpost for everything you need to know about this project!

The No More Zero Comments (NM0C) Project is dedicated to reducing the number of fics on AO3 with no comments. This is a multifandom community effort with very few rules which you can very easily undertake alone, but hey, why not join us?

The goal is simple: find fics with no comments, read them and leave the author a comment. If you want, you can go out and find fics on your own, but we also have a handy spreadsheet full of fics for you to browse!

You can find the spreadsheet here. There are tonnes of different fandoms to choose from. It will be updated regularly with new fics, so check back as often as you like.

Do you have a fic with zero comments? You can submit it here to be added to the spreadsheet. There is no limit to how many you can submit, and no limits on what you can submit. Any fandom, any category, any rating, no matter how old it is. Yes, even explicit fics. We aren't picky around here. You can also submit other people's fics if you wish.

All I ask is, if you submit your own fics, try and comment on some too! Balance, equality, etc.

The only real rule for submissions is no AI. This blog is vehemently anti-AI and will not accept any fics that use it. EDIT 16/06/25: There are now two more rules - no Harry Potter fics (fuck jkr) and no fics less than a week old.

If you read a fic from the spreadsheet, please let me know here so I can remove the fic from the spreadsheet. If you see a fic on the spreadsheet that has a comment, don't fret. I'll get around to removing it soon. Admin's timezone is GMT and I'm most active in the evenings.

Have a question? Feel free to ask!

A few more bits and pieces of information under the cut!

Who runs this blog?

That'd be me, Izak, better known as @lightningzombie! I run this blog alone for now. And yes, I did put my own fics into the spreadsheet. I put it up to a vote and people said I could!

Why did you decide to do this?

Frustration with the lack of comments on my fics and the death of comment culture in general. Bewilderment when I saw a fic that had 1200 kudos and no comments. The joy that leaving 100 comments and receiving 20+ during the Febuwhump commentfest brought me. Boredom. Many reasons!

Is there a prize/competition?

Nope! No incentives whatsoever. Just the joy of fan fiction, of commenting, and community spirit.

Will you do events?

Yes, I plan to! I'm not sure what yet, though.

"I don't know how to comment!"

Yes, you do. "I like this" is a comment. "How dare you do that to [insert blorbo here]" is a comment. "<3" is a comment. "KAJSDAKSDHJ WHYYYYY????" is a comment. "I am rapidly approaching your location" is a comment. Just be kind!

How long will it take me to get a comment?

Dunno. Some people get them within minutes, some hours, some days. Depends on many things. Be patient!

I submitted something but it hasn't been added or removed

I run this blog and the spreadsheet completely alone and manually. Any submissions will be handled as and when i have time. Be patient with me, I'll get to it!

Happy commenting! <3

[shoutokutaoist]

@nomorezerocomments

Getting a comment on AO3 is such a magical experience. “Oh you liked what I wrote? You read the whole thing start to finish? YOU SHARED YOUR IMPUT WITH ME?”

Now I want to take you somewhere to get a nice warm drink and tell you about ever little detail I wrote in the fic, my crippling fear of mischaracterization, and also if you want to get married.

[bittersweetbark]

That might make it difficult for the @nomorezerocomments project :/

Comment Rate Limits for Logged-In AO3 Users

In the next few days, #AO3 will begin rate limiting comments from logged-in users to help combat a wave of spam comments: https://otw-news.org/4m69w8dr (We'll let you know when the change is live!)

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[nomorezerocomments]

theres over 200 fics with zero comments in this collection!!! lets fix that!!!

Blog Introduction

Hello! Welcome to the No More Zero Comments Project! This is a blog dedicated to reducing the amount of fics on ao3 that have no comments at all.

The goal is simple: find fics with no comments, read them, and leave a comment for the author. However, I (this blogs creator) am not in every fandom to ever exist on ao3 so this is not a task I can do alone. That's where you come in!

There are two ways you can do this. One is to go out and find fics with zero comments in your fandoms, and leave a comment. The other is to take a look at the spreadsheet i made with a list of fics i found with no comments and see if there's any fandoms you know. If I did my job right, you should be able to filter it? Who knows, I suck at technology. This spreadsheet will be updated regularly by adding new fics (and removing ones that have now received comments) so there will always be new stuff to see!

So far, the spreadsheet contains mostly fics from @febuwhump collections, as their commentfest is where i got this idea. If you want to submit one of your own zero comment fics for the spreadsheet, you can do so here.

If you read a fic from the spreadsheet and leave a comment on it (or have received a comment on your own fic that is on the spreadsheet), you can let me know here so I can remove it from the spreadsheet (you do not have to do this, I will try to check regularly to see if fics have received comments, but doing it this way will be a HUGE help to me)!

Some preemptive answers to potential FAQs under the cut!

Who runs this blog?

That'd be me, Izak, also known as @lightningzombie! Hi!

Wait, I see one of your fics on the spreadsheet!

Look. I'm not doing this for no reason. Around 14% of my own fics have no comments. In the interest of fairness, I'll only be adding one of my own fics to the spreadsheet at a time. This limit only applies to me as the owner of this blog. Everyone else can have as many as they like on there lol

Do I have to read fics from the spreadsheet?

Nope! It's just a handy tool for if you're looking for something to read, and want to help out an author in need of their first comment. You can go find zero comment fics wherever you usually get fics from

Is there some sort of prize/competition?

Nope! This is just an effort to increase fandom engagement since it fell off post-COVID. You don't have to report to me about it, you just gotta do it!

Why did you decide to do this?

Frustration with the lack of comments on my fics and the death of comment culture in general. Bewilderment when I saw a fic that had 1200 kudos and no comments. The joy that leaving 100 comments and receiving 20+ during the Febuwhump commentfest brought me. Boredom. Many reasons!

Will you do events?

Maybe! If there's enough interest we could do events similar to justleaveacommentfest.

Can I submit other peoples fics for the spreadsheet?

I mean, yeah, of course. But like, if you're going to the trouble of submitting someone else's fic, why not just leave a comment on it?

(edit: if you want to add a bunch of stuff from your fandoms that you don't have time to read/have tags you can't read then go for it!)

I don't know how to comment!

Yes, you do. "I like this" is a comment. "How dare you do that to [insert blorbo here]" is a comment. "<3" is a comment. "KAJSDAKSDHJ WHYYYYY????" is a comment. "I am rapidly approaching your location" is a comment. Just be kind!

Will you be doing this for platforms other than ao3?

For now, no. Ao3 is the platform I've used for a decade and the one I understand. However if you comment on fics that aren't on ao3, that's great! The spirit of the project is so give love to authors so do that on whatever platform you see fit

Happy commenting!

[astaldis]

Link to the spreadsheet

Do you have fics with zero comments? You can submit them here to be added to the spreadsheet.

alright, im off to bed. submissions have dried up a bit so if you have friends who are fic writers, let them know about us! if you have a spare minute, scroll through the spreadsheet and see if theres anything you wanna read

goodnight y'all!

[astaldis]

It's also a great idea to check if there are fics with zero comments for your fav ships or characters and go through the list Ao3 comes up with. There's probably a few fics that you have missed and now is the chance to read and kudos and comment on them. There might be a hidden gem for you to discover! Or you have read the fic before, but only left a kudos for one reason or another. Just send them a reread comment with a couple of extra hearts. I'm sure it'll make the author very happy!

What do you do if a no comment work gets a comment outside of this? Like if someone just casually reads it so it's not submitted?

nothing. the point of this is to get people commenting more in general, this is just an easy way i can get people in need of comments in contact with people who want to leave them.

i want you to comment on other stuff. fics with no comments or five or a hundred. this project is just a bit of fun, yknow?

[nomorezerocomments]

its a beautiful day in the nomorezerocomments spreadsheet and you are an anonymous goose

there are people looking at the spreadsheet while im adding more to it which is completely fine and why i made it public but i do feel like im at a zoo in opposite land. context:

hi guys

[lucigoo]

If anyone has a fic that has 0 comments on it, send it on. One of my earlier but fav fics (Smile) had none fir 2 years, now it has 8 and it's cause of this blog, the spreadsheet and the amazing @nomorezerocomments .

So thank you <3

good evening y'all! both forms are empty right now. i'll be around all evening so anything that gets submitted should be added to the spreadsheet quickly