I get that it can sound like a compliment - 'hey, I don't usually like them, but I did here! good job!' - but it comes across kind of tasteless when so many in a row point out to the author that they don't like something the author liked enough to write a story about. This was something kink_bingo talked a lot about over the summer, and it's been on my mind since then.

*nods vigorously*

I stayed out of the discussion at kink_bingo because I really do think what they were talking about was a degree of magnitude worse, where it impacts someone's sexuality, their identity -- a lot more akin to "I can't stand actual gay people, but I loved this slash fic you wrote!" than "I hate this character, but I liked them in this story." But, yeah -- it's very unpleasant to get a big block of comments like that, even though I know people are well-intentioned when they write them. The kink_bingo discussion, combined with my own unhappiness at finding a comment like that in my inbox has made me much more careful not to write comments like that on other people's fic. I know I've done it in the past -- it's kind of the natural thing to do when you're spilling out your thoughts into the comment box. And part of it does have to do with how it's phrased -- "Normally I loathe that whiny bitch but you made her bearable; good job!" has a rather different tone from "Wow, I never really thought about this pairing before, but you really sold me on it!" *g*

In this particular case, I did feel that some of the commenters were using the comments to air their grievances on the pairing and on Rodney, and I really didn't want to read that.