[ SECRET POST #4354 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4364 ⌋

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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

You'll find both professional and non-professional reviews all over the internet.

I know that book reviews *exist* but that still requires me to run through and find a million different book reviewers, and hope to get lucky and find one whose taste I agree with, and who isn't constantly spending half their posts on promo, giveaways, their own books they're writing, backscratching by promoting other writers and agents so that they can get promoted in return, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc. Which it seems like 80% of all book reviewers do.

With AO3, I can find a centralized list of fanfiction to read and know what's in it. I can look at how many hits, kudos, and bookmarks a given fic has. I can filter by tags and relationships and fandoms and topics. And if I want to find someone with similar taste to me, I can go and look at who bookmarked fics that I like.

[type_wild]

I use Goodreads if I want the user review aggregate, and I never read book bloggers, but reviewers for professional publications like newspapers, magazines, larger websites for genre fiction etc.

I also tend to find that hits and kudos only serve to part the mediocre fic from the bad ones, because there's so much more than quality determining what people like. Does it have the most popular fanon? Is the author a BNF? How many chapters is it? Is it smut?Is it whatever AU is the hot thing this season? The biggest fandom hits tend to be passable, while the true gems get way less attention than your run-of-the-mill hanahaki-disease dribble.

[(Anonymous)]

IA that kudos mostly serve to separate the bad fic from everything else, but that's still useful.

And IMO published fiction is also very, very vulnerable to popularity and trends and random flavor-of-the-month stuff and peer pressure. Both for writers and reviewers.