Hi! I read a lot of fanfic and leave a LOT more kudos than comments and that honestly has very little to do with the specific author / fic and mostly to do with "how much brain I have left for communicating today"[1] at the time I read the fic. I maybe make more effort for very-favourite authors but ... pretty sure there is no one for whom I have managed a comment on every fic of theirs I've liked. I don't have any panic or anything about commenting, it's just that I'm highly likely to be reading fic (or anything else for that matter!) when my ability to string words together in response is pretty much zero.
[1] I have a full-time job which involves a lot of translating between humans and computers, and then I come home and parent my children and by the time they're asleep I don't want to talk to *anyone* for a while.
I've think for me at least the way authors encourage comments is to consistently *act* as though they welcome them. Whether that's responding to comments other people have left before I got there (I will pretty much always read existing comments before adding any) or e.g. notes on a chapter or series update saying "thanks for your lovely comments on [last part], I'm so touched!" That gives me some idea what I can expect if I do feel able to string some words together that time.
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[1] I have a full-time job which involves a lot of translating between humans and computers, and then I come home and parent my children and by the time they're asleep I don't want to talk to *anyone* for a while.
I've think for me at least the way authors encourage comments is to consistently *act* as though they welcome them. Whether that's responding to comments other people have left before I got there (I will pretty much always read existing comments before adding any) or e.g. notes on a chapter or series update saying "thanks for your lovely comments on [last part], I'm so touched!" That gives me some idea what I can expect if I do feel able to string some words together that time.