I kind of agree - sometimes it has put me off stories. Specially wanting the votes and comments to come in within a day. I vote for all stories I read and try to comment sometimes as well. Sometimes I just vote, and decide to read later on few chapters together depending on my schedule, and if the updates are not regular it takes time to get in the groove of the story so cannot comment then. I understand the effort the writers take and I’m in awe of the stories but the threatening makes me feel bad because people read at different times, and have different issues going in their life so they cannot be addressed as one person and their decisions can’t be influenced as one person. The threatening anyways won’t work because the people who occasionally log on will still not comment or vote. And like you said it does depend on liking of the reader as well, some stories I am so enamored by I can’t help but comment, it just comes out naturally as I’m so involved.