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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2023-07-22 05:35 pm

[ SECRET POST #6042 ]


⌈ Secret Post #6042 ⌋

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(Anonymous) 2023-07-24 08:44 am (UTC)(link)
You know, this comment has stuck with me. I think you're entirely right.

And it's weird, because old websites had pageview-counters where the sitemaster and any visitor could tell that umpteen thousand people had been to their place, but no one got weird about "buy why aren't all those people benefitting me in some way??" at all. You would have been seen as a complete nut if you got mad that people were reading "your" articles without signing your guestbook.

I remember observing the hit counter on my AO3 go up (it was the first fanfic archive I contributed to that had one) and being amazed that so many people had thought my summaries and titles were promising enough to click in, and that people from literally any country with internet connectivity could read something I'd written, if they wanted to. We're all going to die, and they freely chose to spend a piece of their time with something I made up.

No further compliment was needed.

(Anonymous) 2023-07-24 01:23 pm (UTC)(link)
AYRT I mean people did whine incessantly about how nobody comments on lj too! That's not new either. It's just if they were bringing up ratios it meant they had snuck in one of those hidden-pixel hit counters and people would get mad at them about using invasive spyware, because that was a thing we still cared about.