[ SECRET POST #6042 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6042 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

.......... fanfiction.net??????? I never did LJ but oh boy commenting on ff.net was just to be expected

[(Anonymous)]

I was actually curious about the math on this so I just went to AO3 and the tag for fic crossposted on ffnet. Found a fic that has 7766 comments on AO3. Exact same fic has 1388 reviews on ffnet.

Since ffnet doesn't have a hit count, and those aren't particularly reliable anyway, we can look at the bookmark/fave count. 7748 for AO3 and 3052 for ffnet.

So we have 7766 comments and 7748 bookmarks on AO3 vs 1388 comments and 3052 bookmarks on ffnet. This is a ratio of 1.002 comments per bookmark for AO3 vs 0.4558 for ffnet. So this fic was over twice as likely to get a comment on AO3 as on ffnet per bookmark.

Granted, it's just one fic (it would be a massive undertaking to do a statistical analysis on a site by site basis) and there's no way to see if such a thing has changed over time without having to dig for data, and ain't nobody got time for that.

[(Anonymous)]

Ehhh, I think this is hugely influenced by fandom and when it was posted. These days, I think AO3 is the more frequented place for reading fic, so the numbers will be influenced by that. And fandom also plays a huge role - I used to crosspost on both for a while and fics in anime fandoms would consistently get more comments on ffn than on AO3. Popular Western media fandoms (stuff like MCU ca. 2012-2014) got more comments on AO3. But I think that was mostly influenced by the fact that AO3 was already established in those fandoms due to BNFs posting there, whereas anime fandoms mostly didn't exist on AO3.

[(Anonymous)]

It really depends on the fic! I find my weirder shit gets more reviews on ffnet even today than it does on AO3, whereas my fluff is adored by AO3 but goes mostly unrecognized on ffnet.

[(Anonymous)]

ehhhh I don't think that's a good measurement to compare since I strongly believe that fan bases on different sites differ greatly (ie: there may be more Fandom A fics on AO3 than on FFnet because more people post there, whereas Fandom B might have a bigger fanbase on FFnet because its older and might still have people posting on it - which is another factor since ffnet has gone down in quality by comparison to AO3, so people might be more reluctant to use it).

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

Responding to all the comments above in order:
1) This was in my caveats at the end.
2) This was in my caveats at the end.
3) This is why I went for ratios and not total numbers. The gross number of comments doesn't matter.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT
I never saw that with FF.net so hadn’t considered it tbh. I was only thinking about LJ vs specific fandom archives, the old mailing lists and Angelfire circles. LJ was the only place I saw a large number of readers commenting if they didn’t have a personal connection to the author. And even on the pit it was like that but I was only ever there for a short while for one fandom after its archive disappeared.

[(Anonymous)]

... uh, no? I rarely got many comments on the stuff I posted on FF.net, even in the popular fandoms.