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[pez]

Can Kanesaki please stop being adorable now?

Forgot to take lunch to work. Have to suffer icky food again.

Those who commented on [Acceleration] said they enjoyed it, but I wonder how many other people tried and didn't get past the first 700-or-so words... or even just read the first few paragraphs and assumed it's a Second Person POV fic and clicked away. =/ Bah. Then again, that's how I wanted it to start, so...

I can't believe I'm talking with vicky_guu_sama on chat about the state of the HK media...

Comments

[reposoir.livejournal.com]

Use an invisible counter-

It's amazing how many people read/click on fic and don't have the courtesy to comment...

[yuki-scorpio.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm that's an idea... will definitely give it a think!

[giving-ground.livejournal.com]

I did that on one story I posted as a kind of random experiment, though I don't do it routinely (just don't care that much)... it was kind of interesting. I mean, 600 or so unique hits to 20 comments. (But then I started wondering SO DID ALL THOSE PEOPLE THINK IT SUCKED OR WERE THEY JUST LAZY OR-- and that way madness lies so I stopped. :D )

[yuki-scorpio.livejournal.com]

And there's always the chance people wouldn't even click on mine since it's SanaYana. Woe is me. I contemplated not specifying pairing on the comm post, but...

But dude, 600:20 is pretty extreme!

[reposoir.livejournal.com]

Naw, 600:20 is fairly standard. Anywhere between 5-10% commenting is typical.

Some counters allow you to check how long specific IPs were on the site. So then you can judge, approximately, if they read or not based on the length of time they were recorded there....

[yuki-scorpio.livejournal.com]

!! You gotta tell me where to find those counters!

[reposoir.livejournal.com]

This is my new friend. We met last week:

http://www.statcounter.com/

You have to sign up, but it's really really free and not a pain to use at all.

[yuki-scorpio.livejournal.com]

Is it working well for you? Because LJ doesn't allow javascript so the HTML counter is the one I'm playing with and it doesn't give visit durations. =/

Oh wait. Lemme play with this a bit more first. >>

[reposoir.livejournal.com]

Yes, it works for me. I copied and pasted the html and it was fine.

[giving-ground.livejournal.com]

I don't remember if it was exactly that, but yeah, about that ratio... I mean, it's a freak occurrence if I get more than 20 comments for anything anyway, but yeah. It was the one SanaYuki story I wrote.

[yuki-scorpio.livejournal.com]

Yeah same here. 30 at best, and that's like my Rikkai Exchange entry where people were commenting especially enthusiastically! We all say we write because we like writing, but it'd be nice to hear that people liked reading, too...

[giving-ground.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I always have such mixed feelings on this, because I DO write out of enjoyment, but at the same time... *laughs*