Yes. AO3 is different for those of us who are used to older archives or more fandom specific archives. Skyhawke, of course, uses the star rating system and I wonder if AO3 did that one better intentionally with the kudos thing. I'm not faulting AO3, mind - I think they responded to a desire to "easily" let a writer know someone liked their story. As I mention above, the alternative wouldn't be comments - it'd be silence. So kudos are nice, and yet ... kinda blah.

I do think we here (and maybe the ST fandom, especially TOS) are less into new archives and more into places that are fandom specific, so there's that (that's just an idea I have and it might not be right).

Can you be into the pairing without being into the fandom? That's something I'll have to think about ...