Holy frelling dren!
Jun. 9th, 2005 03:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hmpfI just checked my website stats. I'll be honest: I wanted to see if the rec I got at the ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
crack_van recently had resulted in any more recs, and since reccers rarely (I'm tempted to say 'never', as none of mine has ever told me, but there may be the occasional reccer - me, for instance *g* - who sends the authors a mail when they rec something) tell you they've recced your stuff, checking the website visitor stats is pretty much the only way to find out...
Usually I have visitor numbers ranging from 40 hits on a bad day to 200 on a *very* good day.
On Thursday the 2nd of June, the day I got recced, I got 1400 hits.
1400.
One thousand four hundred hits. In one single day.
That's the great part.
Now for the depressing part: from those 1400 hits resulted one, I repeat, *one* bit of feedback. (Not counting feedback from friends, 'cause, you know, that doesn't really count.)
I should probably clarify that that extremely high number of hits does *not* mean 1400 people read my fic. The fic in question is split into 20 pages, and I can follow pretty well how many people actually read all of it by checking how many people read the last page: 75 people endured all of 'Endure'. *g* But still, that's 75 people who read it, and only one new person who gave feedback.
Maybe the other 70 or so didn't like it. But then, why did they keep reading?
Ah well. I'm happy it got recced and happy for the feedback I got. But sometimes, I can't help wondering. :-)
crack_van recently had resulted in any more recs, and since reccers rarely (I'm tempted to say 'never', as none of mine has ever told me, but there may be the occasional reccer - me, for instance *g* - who sends the authors a mail when they rec something) tell you they've recced your stuff, checking the website visitor stats is pretty much the only way to find out... Usually I have visitor numbers ranging from 40 hits on a bad day to 200 on a *very* good day.
On Thursday the 2nd of June, the day I got recced, I got 1400 hits.
1400.
One thousand four hundred hits. In one single day.
That's the great part.
Now for the depressing part: from those 1400 hits resulted one, I repeat, *one* bit of feedback. (Not counting feedback from friends, 'cause, you know, that doesn't really count.)
I should probably clarify that that extremely high number of hits does *not* mean 1400 people read my fic. The fic in question is split into 20 pages, and I can follow pretty well how many people actually read all of it by checking how many people read the last page: 75 people endured all of 'Endure'. *g* But still, that's 75 people who read it, and only one new person who gave feedback.
Maybe the other 70 or so didn't like it. But then, why did they keep reading?
Ah well. I'm happy it got recced and happy for the feedback I got. But sometimes, I can't help wondering. :-)
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Yeah, I think I remember you gave feedback a while ago...
Date: 2005-06-09 03:04 pm (UTC)But, seriously, anyone who writes fanfic should realise that every bit of feedback counts as it's such a rare commodity.
Or do all those people who don't give feedback get loads of feedback and think that happens to everyone? Well, it certainly can't be said for me! I'm not sure if I'm above or below average with this, but I get about two to three feedback mails per year for my older stuff - and that's *not* two to three per story, but two to three between the lot of them (I've got around 10 stories, I think). Most of that has been for 'Together' in the last two years or so. Before 'Together' I got even less feedback - maybe one mail per year. All of this is not counting feedback on mailing lists etc. immediately after the release of a fic, as reactions are always a bit more generous directly after publication, although even there I never got overwhelming amounts of feedback. But I'm talking long-term feedback here.
By the way, when I was ranting about reccers who don't tell you they've recced you I mainly meant people you really rec you on a dedicated recs page or recs journal. When you rec something, basically, to a friend in private, even if it's the 'public privacy' of their livejournal, I wouldn't expect you to drop the author a line. I don't e-mail authors to tell them 'hey, I just recommended your fic to my mate XY', either, after all. *g*