@CouchZa70875 That seems reasonable. I'm just addressing the arguments I've seen from people who want to either deprive authors of any community engagement at all or punish authors they don't personally like. An unkudo is relatively mild and valid in the cases you mention.
A pic of my beautiful wife for this year's #N7Day
EA might've cancelled the next ME game, but they can't cancel my love for this series
#SaveMassEffect
writing a long fic is constantly dreaming up future scenarios that I can’t share yet and banging my head against a wall to figure out the next sequential piece of the story
Actually the "I want to treat AO3 like a streaming service and just mindlessly consume and never once consider that an actual person made this" mindset is far more capitalistic than "I like being appreciated for my work" could ever be.