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Script originally written by ScriptMouse.

I modified it a couple of years ago to put `blockquote` tags around extracted quotes (in addition to italics).

ScriptMouse didn't define a license when they originally published the script, which means that I'm not actually entitled to publish a modified version of it without their permission.

I hope that one day they'll see my comment about modifying it and either give me their blessing or tell me to unpublish my modified version.

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/395902-ao3-floating-comment-box/discussions/113440

Either way, I'm grateful to them for writing & publishing the script.

AO3 Floating Comment Box made it so much easier for me to leave comments on fics.

Lots of times I have just not commented on fics that I really enjoyed, because I couldn't think of something to say in the moment, or didn't have the social battery to even leave an incoherent keysmash.

With the floating comment box, whenever I read something that moves me (joyful, horny, funny, angst, fear, amazement, whatever), I can select the text, add it to the comment box (with quote formatting) and then drop in a comment or even just an emoji.

Then the author at least knows that those particular words caused a reaction in me.

I think that's a thing authors like...? Anyway I'm sure that most authors would like it more than receiving no comment at all, which was my previous default behaviour.