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dragonlady7via http://ift.tt/2ol5S84:icantbearsedtothinkofone replied to your post “I’m at a weird cross-point in writing at the moment where I’m super…”
It doesn’t let me kudos more than once, so I do try to comment on things but somettimes I get anxious about my stupid comments so I, er, don’t. Sorry? (can you see why I hardly ever post anything I write, other than the fact that it’s all shit?)
Aw no I do appreciate comments a ton, and never fear about the content of them, for reals, but I was counting kudos for stats purposes precisely because it doesn’t let you do it more than once, so like, it evens things out like for multi-chapter works and such as well. If you have something that you update four or five times, readers will come back (ideally!) four or five times, and if you have an older work that someone might have reread, that’s all going to show more traffic to the fic and make it harder to compare to a new one.
Of course that means rereads don’t get counted, and those are important I think but impossible to quantify. I recently did have a spate of comments on some older works that were all a person commenting simply “comment for extra kudos on rereading!” which was extremely sweet and I did enjoy, but I certainly don’t expect that.
No no no, I complain far too much about my lack of readership for someone who never self-promos and mostly doesn’t even read other people’s shit. I’m terrible at the sort of community-building things that are an important part of building readership and the like. I’m just a whiner, really.
And I love comments, but I’m an awful commenter, myself, so I completely understand when other people don’t leave them. I treasure them but I’d be crazy to whine about that.
I do worry that I’ve offended people or upset them or whatever, if they read and don’t kudos, but I tell myself it’s all people who are like ‘oh this is long’ or ‘whoops this isn’t the fic i thought it was, i clicked the wrong link’ or ‘oh my browser crashed and i had to reload a bunch of times before i read this’– there are a lot of reasons why your stats would register a hit. ‘I reread this eighty times because it speaks to my Soul’ is another perfectly acceptable reason. :)
I’m not seriously trying to passive-aggressive my way to better readership. I was being honest: it’s dark and it’s lonely and I’m trying to cheer myself up, since I don’t seem to be doing anything sensible about it.
It doesn’t let me kudos more than once, so I do try to comment on things but somettimes I get anxious about my stupid comments so I, er, don’t. Sorry? (can you see why I hardly ever post anything I write, other than the fact that it’s all shit?)
Aw no I do appreciate comments a ton, and never fear about the content of them, for reals, but I was counting kudos for stats purposes precisely because it doesn’t let you do it more than once, so like, it evens things out like for multi-chapter works and such as well. If you have something that you update four or five times, readers will come back (ideally!) four or five times, and if you have an older work that someone might have reread, that’s all going to show more traffic to the fic and make it harder to compare to a new one.
Of course that means rereads don’t get counted, and those are important I think but impossible to quantify. I recently did have a spate of comments on some older works that were all a person commenting simply “comment for extra kudos on rereading!” which was extremely sweet and I did enjoy, but I certainly don’t expect that.
No no no, I complain far too much about my lack of readership for someone who never self-promos and mostly doesn’t even read other people’s shit. I’m terrible at the sort of community-building things that are an important part of building readership and the like. I’m just a whiner, really.
And I love comments, but I’m an awful commenter, myself, so I completely understand when other people don’t leave them. I treasure them but I’d be crazy to whine about that.
I do worry that I’ve offended people or upset them or whatever, if they read and don’t kudos, but I tell myself it’s all people who are like ‘oh this is long’ or ‘whoops this isn’t the fic i thought it was, i clicked the wrong link’ or ‘oh my browser crashed and i had to reload a bunch of times before i read this’– there are a lot of reasons why your stats would register a hit. ‘I reread this eighty times because it speaks to my Soul’ is another perfectly acceptable reason. :)
I’m not seriously trying to passive-aggressive my way to better readership. I was being honest: it’s dark and it’s lonely and I’m trying to cheer myself up, since I don’t seem to be doing anything sensible about it.
