I like to post in the evening so there are, hopefully, some comments when I wake up. But half the time, I tell myself I can't go to bed until I get at least one comment. I try to watch anime or toku on my laptop, but I keep pausing it to refresh my recent comments page. Somehow, I think that's luckier than refreshing the story page or checking my email. (Anyhow, my email might be broken OMG.)
There have even been times, I'm ashamed to admit, that I thought about posting a comment myself just to check if comments were really working. Ashamed, but not ashamed enough.
I also try not to post about other things too close before or afterwards, because I have a theory that if people have recently commented on your journal they will be less likely to comment on the story post.
...although, you know, the after-posts are sometimes useful because you can say "hey, didja see I posted something? Didja? Didja?
I just can't quite bring myself to do that. I'm scared of sounding desperate and pitiful and needy! (Not that you ever do, of course.) Although if I can figure out a legitimate reason to off-handedly refer to the story and link to it...
I always do it now. Mostly it's, "Hey I posted fic at 3am when most of you were sleeping. Maybe you missed it!" Since I do post at crazy middle-of-the-night hours sometimes.
Solution: refer to your most recent fic as an example in a later meta post. In that situation, you are only linking in order to illustrate you point! It is evidence, not self-pimping!
Downside: you then have to write meta. And if you want to be above suspicion, the meta has to be relevant to the fic you are begging people to read citing in a totally professional, academic manner. And then it nets you maybe one extra comment. But at least you feel you are being proactive?
That sounds like entirely too much work. Also, I don't think I could be erudite enough to pull it off. It would sound like, "In discussing the sensitive issue of misogyny in fandom, there are some relavant points raised by my story, Hot Sluts of Seigaku, where the hot shower sex and the hot locker room floor sex and the scene where Momoshiro rips off Kaidoh's shirt while Horio watches illustrate the lack of female characters in slash fiction today."
I've been toying with the kitten method. That's where I post a picture of a cute kitten suspended over a tank of piranhas and threaten that if I don't get enough feedback, the kitten gets it.
I like to post in the evening so there are, hopefully, some comments when I wake up. But half the time, I tell myself I can't go to bed until I get at least one comment.
Yes! Sometimes I will go for a shower and hope feedback will magically appear when I return.
I also try not to post about other things too close before or afterwards, because I have a theory that if people have recently commented on your journal they will be less likely to comment on the story post.
No, Starbuck is the other hot blonde (the one I actually think is hot), but isn't there some sort of Cylon blonde too? She's the imaginary companion of one of the men? (or is she a brunette? I'm not very visually oriented, apparently *g*)
victoria's icon just above has 6, the hot blonde Cylon. I'm just gratuitously commenting with Starbuck icons because she's really hot and I like to use them. :)
There have even been times, I'm ashamed to admit, that I thought about posting a comment myself just to check if comments were really working. Ashamed, but not ashamed enough.
I also try not to post about other things too close before or afterwards, because I have a theory that if people have recently commented on your journal they will be less likely to comment on the story post.
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(...although, you know, the after-posts are sometimes useful because you can say "hey, didja see I posted something? Didja? Didja?")
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I just can't quite bring myself to do that. I'm scared of sounding desperate and pitiful and needy! (Not that you ever do, of course.) Although if I can figure out a legitimate reason to off-handedly refer to the story and link to it...
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Or you can just pretend you posted in the middle of the night. :)
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Downside: you then have to write meta. And if you want to be above suspicion, the meta has to be relevant to the fic you are begging people to read citing in a totally professional, academic manner. And then it nets you maybe one extra comment. But at least you feel you are being proactive?
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I've been toying with the kitten method. That's where I post a picture of a cute kitten suspended over a tank of piranhas and threaten that if I don't get enough feedback, the kitten gets it.
The only problem is I'm allergic to cats.
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Yes! Sometimes I will go for a shower and hope feedback will magically appear when I return.
I also try not to post about other things too close before or afterwards, because I have a theory that if people have recently commented on your journal they will be less likely to comment on the story post.
I do this, too.
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SO MUCH MAKES SENSE NOW!
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*doesn't actually watch BSG, but has seen hot blonde*
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Or this one. *g*
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