[ SECRET POST #3580 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3580 ⌋

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Comments

[ariakas]

Look at the numbers on those, though.

21/65 = roughly one kudo per three hits, which is insanely high.

195/5389 = roughly one kudo per forty hits, which is a perfectly normal number.

In my experience, a very good fic will have around a one kudo per ten hits ratio, at most. More than that and something fishy's going on (might not necessarily be someone kudo'ing themselves, might just be a clique or a small but beloved-by-its-fans rarepair who kudo literally everything written for it).

Only way to know for sure is to click on it for yourself, I suppose. That said, if it's trash, it's annoying.

[(Anonymous)]

this. it's a crazy ratio for an 86 word fic

[tabaqui]

I have honestly never noticed the ratio of kudos to hits on the fic i read, and don't really pay attention to it much on my own fic, either. I mean - some fic out there has tons of both and they still suck, so it just doesn't seem like a reliable way to judge a fic, you know?

It's all down to fandom, pairing, and current fandom tastes, in my mind.

Thanks for the explanation!

[(Anonymous)]

It varies for me, depending on the fandom and what I'm writing.

I do a rare pair in a popular fandom? Very low overall hits, but the kudos to hit ratio is high - people who are interested in that pair tend to be generous with praise. Entry number thirty in a plotty series? The current ratio is around 1/5. (They're hooked, the poor babies.) Again, relatively low hit count, but... And if I do a one-shot with the fandom work horses? Closer to that 1/10.

I have to admit, it's always the tiny, weird stories getting kudos that pleases me most.

[ariakas]

Yeah you absolutely do have to take the fandom, pairing, genre, fic type, etc., into account. (But once all of those are factored in, it often is down to quality >>)

My highest kudo-to-hit-ratio fic is also around 1/5 but it's a short but absolutely gut-punching fic for a rarepair. Whereas my popular pairing epic has 100x the hits, but only a ratio around 1/10 because a) you can only kudo a fic once even if it's multi-chapter, and b) people re-reread it and you can only kudo once from an IP address, whereas it counts all hits.

That said there is of course no accounting for taste. I've seen fics with a ton of kudos that were an absolute dumpster fire imo but schmoopy or angsty or porny in spades.

[(Anonymous)]

"I've seen fics with a ton of kudos that were an absolute dumpster fire imo but schmoopy or angsty or porny in spades."

Yeah, something I've noticed in fanfic land - hitting popular narrative kinks will absolutely drive the kudos up, above objectively decent prose.

Who am I to judge people enjoying themselves and letting the writer know?