AO3 Stats Memes: no... comments?

[ely_baby]

I've seen these AO3 stats memes popping up in my flist for a couple of days now, and I'm sorry if I haven't commented on each one of them. It doesn't mean that I don't like them or feel the urge to snob them, just that I've been rather busy with my betas, translations for the OTW October Drive, helping out crack_broom with tidying up their archive, and what

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[torino10154]

Since I started this little meme, I feel like I need to reply to this post.

The most "comment threads" I have on anything is 20, and it's a 25 part series. I can't accurately compare that with pretty much anything else. I feel like it's the least accurate of all the stats. Something with multiple parts is naturally going to have more. I have 1300+ listed works and only about 100 have more than one comment. Why would someone comment on a drabble of 100 words I back dated to 2008? Maybe for people who only have a few, full length fics it says something. But it's an utterly useless stat to me.

As for Kudos and Hits, I actually never read at AO3. All my reading is done on the journals unless it's a fest fic and even then I comment on LJ when I can. I just found it interesting the difference between the things. I really don't appreciate the tone you've taken here, as if we're stupid to even be curious about that. If anything the point of MY post was that just because something has a lot of Hits or Kudos doesn't mean it's actually quality. It means it's "popular".

I actually never read simply for smut, certainly not searching for the word cock. I don't have time to bother. Either I want to read the story or I don't.

[ely_baby]

I'm very sorry you'd feel attacked or think that I'd consider you stupid because you were curious about these things. Probably, I was too direct or my tone was wrong - to be quite honest (and here yes, I'll play the not native card) I always have a hard time choosing the right tone in a language different from mine -, but I did read more than one person on my flist asking these same questions, and since I didn't reply to any of them because I didn't have time, I decided to reply to all of them here. I would have replied to everybody just like that, had I had the time, because that's what I really think. E-rated fics have a higher Hit Count. That's what I do think, and that what would have been my answer to all these posts. I don't think you're stupid, but if you're asking something, I'll answer with what I think it's the best answer.

I do see your point about comments, but thing is I really like comments. Not just receiving them, but the whole concept of commenting and having an exchange with an author and with your readers. I just like that. And not seeing anybody talking about them - you might have started this, but nobody thought about adding them anyway (and other people may not have thousands of drabbles but maybe less works and longer?) - just made me thought that something was dying a bit in fandom. I love to reach out to people who write what I like or to people who like what I write, I mean, having friends on LJ is lovely, but when you leave a comment, that's something almost completely different. You get to receive or give some critical points, you get to think about writing, you get to improve your own writing. I just love comments, and I felt almost hurt by how disinterested people seem to be in them.

I actually never read simply for smut, certainly not searching for the word cock. I don't have time to bother. Either I want to read the story or I don't.

I hope my post didn't infer that I thought you did. I do and I know other people do it too, but that was not directed to anybody in particular on my flist. Didn't mean to offend you. I'm sorry, if I did.