[ SECRET POST #2749 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2749 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 073 secrets from Secret Submission Post #393.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 1 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I'm a writer and while hit counts are interesting, they're not a very reliable indicator of interest. There's the whole bot issue for one thing. And a hit is just a hit. I have no way of knowing whether it's a bot, someone who clicked by accident, someone who's rereading a lot, or someone who took a look but didn't like it.

So yes, in terms of figuring out who likes a fic and how many people like a fic, reviews are far more helpful. I learn if people like it. I learn if people didn't like it (Something that absence of a hit won't tell you, incidentally) and here's a key point-- I learn WHY. Hits are a nice statistic, but they don't tell the whole story, or even part of the story.

If the original scenario (50,000 hits and no reviews) happened to me, I'd likely think the hit count was a bug or computer error because that seems far more likely than the possibility that 50,000 people (or close to that number) read my fic, enjoyed it, but then didn't leave any comment whatsoever.

[(Anonymous)]

Also as a writer you're always putting a part of yourself out there emotionally. If you're looking at lots of hits and no actual feedback your mind is more often going to imagine the shitty scenario that most people clicked but then closed the tab because they didn't like it. I also imagine this to be the case because of the number of times I quit reading something. But I leave at least kudos on stories I liked enough to read to the end.