I think there's something fundamentally different in our sense of value which is making this discussion difficult. For me, the larger that number is, the worse it is: 324 or 495 people read it and deemed it not good enough to be worth their time to drop a comment. That's all it means to me. because no matter how intimidated you feel or socially inept you are, when you're online it's not really that difficult to type a hearts; or a :).
The 5 people who loved it, thank you and their comments mean a lot to me. But at the same time I'm staring at 495 calling me fail. Maybe because I'm Asian, numbers matter to me a lot. You might find this to be a trait to most Asians across the board.
And I wonder, perhaps most of the 495 don't comment because they agree with what I've been told on anon writer memes (and found on other people's LJs, talking about me) before: "your stories are good, but your characterisation, it's impossible to agree with."
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Date: 2008-02-06 03:17 pm (UTC)The 5 people who loved it, thank you and their comments mean a lot to me. But at the same time I'm staring at 495 calling me fail. Maybe because I'm Asian, numbers matter to me a lot. You might find this to be a trait to most Asians across the board.
And I wonder, perhaps most of the 495 don't comment because they agree with what I've been told on anon writer memes (and found on other people's LJs, talking about me) before: "your stories are good, but your characterisation, it's impossible to agree with."