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Haleth
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| Sulriel wrote: | | Haleth wrote: | | I'm not entirely sure how the number of stories published in a year correlates to the number of readers and reviewers. |
I don't think it does directly, but it does seem to be a reasonable *overall* assement of the health of the fandom in general.
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On the surface, I'd have to agree. However, a very quick scan of the first pages of the 'all stories' category makes me wonder. The entry at the bottom of the page is dated January 9. So there have been 10 new fics added to the archive in 5 days.
A quick and very unscientific survey of older pages shows an average of 10 fics added every 4 days in the summer of 2005 and 10 fics every 3 days in early January of 2005.
Please note this doesn't include additions to works in progress.
While the apparent slow down may be an aberration, it could also be a symptom of fandom fatigue.
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| Sulriel wrote: | | Haleth wrote: |
Maybe the hard-core fans aren't as likely to read and review as casual fans? I don't know. |
possibly. maybe that we all get in our little ruts, reviewing authors and characters we already know and love, - or - think that those old favorites know how much we love them and that it doesn't need to be said over and over again .... and there is possibly some truth in that. |
Now here I think you've hit the nail exactly on the head. If you've reviewed once or twice, it's natural to assume the author knows you're interested. But unless you contact the author privately, she had no way of knowing you are still reading.
I've seen some people (not on OSA!) refuse to publish more until they get a certain number of reviews.
I don't know what the answer is. I guess it's up to community members to review each other's work and go out of our way to review/encourage both our favourite authors as well as actively reading/reviewing different authors. Hopefully it will encourage others to do the same.
Speaking of which, I haven't left any reviews in a long time. I should go put my money where my mouth is.
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Robbie
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| Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 5:03 pm Post subject: |
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Our visitors have been fairly static since about May last year, although December and January are lower than usual which may be signalling a downturn. It's about 60% of what it was at one stage, and bearing in mind that great deal of traffic is from search engine robots, you can safely say visitors have dropped by 50%.
We expected it to drop off well before now, but as you say there are new members almost every day...
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ghettoelleth
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All valid arguments, but easily put to rest. My latest chapter of Circle got 100 hits in two days and yet only three reviews. That to me says readership is pretty healthy.
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Ottis413
Joined: 01 Oct 2005
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| Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 10:57 pm Post subject: |
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From the last part of November to the first of Jan is a big holiday season (at least here in the US) and people were prob busy visiting, decorating and shopping much of the time, I know I was.
I did notice a fall-off of posting during this time. I posted a story the second week of Dec http://www.openscrolls.net/fanfic/story.php?no=2418 and it never broke 50 hits, there just wasn't anyone around to read it I guess.
(a little 'shameless self promotion,' hope you don't mind.)
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krazykataave
Joined: 17 Dec 2004
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Location: Immortalized by John Denver
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Reviews are very helpful and VERY WANTED! I don't think i can throw out a bigger hint then that 
I'm tempted at times to make up a chapter to one of my WIP's that is so outrageous, ridiculous, non-sense driven that people would have to at least leave a WTF? review and rate it a 1 star.
Oh well, at least there are those that do read and comment and rate so its not a lost cause. Writers should just continue doing what the do best and go by how many hits you get once you update a WIP or add a story.
It has been a busy time for everyone with the holidays behind us and a new year to deal with.
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