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When someone reviews or favourites your fic, do you go to their profile to see what sort of stuff they write? Do you also look at what else they've favourited?

I do both, and I'm curious to see how many others do this.

I also sometimes count how many fandoms someone shares with me (based on looking through their favourites), because I find it interesting how some fandoms are more likely to overlap than others. For example, I've found that a lot of Doctor Who fans seem to also like Sherlock. I'm not familiar with either of those shows, and as far as I know they have nothing in common, so it kind of makes me wonder what it is that attracts people to certain fandoms.

_{And now that I've actually written all that down, I realize how dorky it sounds and feel like a total dweeb for being fascinated by stuff like this.}

I do sometimes. Usually I don't care, but sometimes I'll check, to see how much I feel like a fav is "worth." I've gotten favs from a couple people who had over three-thousand (honest to goodness, that number is not made up) fics on their favs list. Which, TBH, made me feel less confident about the fic in question than I otherwise had.

I don't look at their profiles, that way lies madness.

I used to check out their profiles in the beginning, when I was all giddy whenever a favourite notification fell into my inbox. But I was always completely crushed when the person turned out to be one of those long-winded, copy-paste, anti-choice, "97% percent of teenagers would cry if Robert Pattinson would throw himself off of a building. If you're one of the 3% that would yell 'Jump!' copy and paste this into your profile!" kind of people, or their favourites list was thousands of fics long and most of it OOC wish-fulfillment fic.

The thought that MY fic might be nothing more than OOC wish-fulfillment crap would completely cripple me and make it impossible to write for months, so I stopped reading the profiles of reviewers/people who favourite my stuff.

Yes, always. And then if they've favorite'd fics I hate, I feel bad about myself.

I don't get a whole lot of favs (or authoralerts) so I always do, for each one. It's always fascinating to see what sort of people fav your fic!

Well, someone who likes Who and Sherlock may well just be a British person who watches tv, or a foreigner who really likes British tv.

I always look at what someone who favourites/kudoses me has written (and I'll read anything that looks at all appealing), but I don't go through their favourites. It seems like most people on the Pit just have hundreds and hundreds of favourites and it's basically just a list of all the legible fics they have ever read, so I doubt there'd be much point. I remember when you could only add a maximum of 30 (? or was it 35?) fics to your Favourites list; old fan is old.

Edited 2012-07-17 00:00 (UTC)

with dr who and sherlock it's probably the moffat involvement.

All the time.

And I admit that if they have eleventy-billion favs, but I'm one of the few (or the only) story they've Favorited for that particular fandom, I get the Special snowflake Glow.

I don't check the ones who have read my fics, but as I read through other people's fics I look at the profiles of people who made a good point in their comments. *G*

With my incomplete chapter fics, I always check out what else the person has made a favorite, because I'm interested to see what type of fans those particular fics appeal to (and to try to guess from what else they read what they expect to happen in those stories).

I don't write fic, but I read a lot, and I only fav a small number (I think my fav fics list currently has 20 favorites with 10 different fandoms represented), so I really hope some of those authors have gotten that happy warm glow.

Doctor Who and Sherlock - both made by the same person - Moffat, both British shows, with a super-intelligent but socially-awkward odd-looking male front lead. It's also arguable that Doctor Who in the first place got a lot of its tropes from the original Sherlock Holmes.

I've done this on occasion. Most of the time it's quite a normal seeming user that shares similar fandoms to myself.

But I've had at least a couple of instances where someone just has thousands of favorited fics on their list, which makes me boggle. Why do they do this? There's no way that they could have read all of those!

Nope. I don't pay any attention to people who fave or watch my fic other than to think "oh cool someone else is looking forward to my writing, I better finish that chapter! :D )

Yes I do! ... I just finished doing just that to an email alert about someone who favorited one of my stories I received overnight. Haha. I've found some awesome fics about characters I write about that way. :D

The only bad thing is when you go and find your fic in a list among fics from fandoms you outright despise lol. So awkward.

I've been on ffn since 2001 and I do look at the people who review my stories. Sometimes it leads me to really interesting writers and stories that surprise and impress me. On rare occasions, it leads me to check out new fandoms, things I haven't read before or even seen before. That is one of my guilty pleasures. :)

Between DW and LJ, I've started taking more time to review the stories I read though. I used to review all the time but I got bogged down and backed off. Now, because people have posted the dearth of reviews on FFn, I've tried to get back into commenting. Nothing sucks quite so much as writing in a void.

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