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So I'd decided to try posting all the angry review replies, and wouldn't you know it, somehow the collective psyche of the badficcers picked up on it.
Of the handful of replies today, more than half were positive and the rest were polite...ish. Interestingly, a bunch used email, too. And one even went to on to read my stories (and reviewed Hatred. I'm not sure why that seems to be the designated review story. Maybe the delicious relevance of the title?) I sort of wonder if it's just the result of blanketing the category with these reviews...once you see everybody get one, maybe you're not so upset about it?
I may well wake up to frothing rage next morning, of course.
So instead we'll discuss interesting things. For one, Hatred reviews aside, this doesn't seem to be doing much to my story hits. (I think. For some reason, at least two stories keep getting several hundred phantom visitors each per month that don't exist on their own stats page, so how reliable the stats in general are I don't know.) It does significantly boost profile hits, though. The thing is, I'm on enough alerts that the easiest way to get attention is just to, you know, update, so it may be different if I was a new author, but there's really no way of telling unless I start a new account, start posting there, and then try to see if my numbers change when I review. And while I'm normally entirely in favor of being obsessive like that, not when it involves posting an actual, untransferable story in the process. Someone else will need to investigate this. Anyway, the implication that reviewing isn't a good way to get reviews bothers me. But then, it may just be the type of reviews I'm giving and the standard review would work...there's so very many compounding factors.
Anyway.
Silawen wanted to see the Pisces reply, which was long and heavy on the crazy that I so sadly lacked today. So in its full glory:
( Cut to spare sanity, and flists )
And then a few hours later the other one emailed me to be kind of sane and say they would take some of the advice.
Of the handful of replies today, more than half were positive and the rest were polite...ish. Interestingly, a bunch used email, too. And one even went to on to read my stories (and reviewed Hatred. I'm not sure why that seems to be the designated review story. Maybe the delicious relevance of the title?) I sort of wonder if it's just the result of blanketing the category with these reviews...once you see everybody get one, maybe you're not so upset about it?
I may well wake up to frothing rage next morning, of course.
So instead we'll discuss interesting things. For one, Hatred reviews aside, this doesn't seem to be doing much to my story hits. (I think. For some reason, at least two stories keep getting several hundred phantom visitors each per month that don't exist on their own stats page, so how reliable the stats in general are I don't know.) It does significantly boost profile hits, though. The thing is, I'm on enough alerts that the easiest way to get attention is just to, you know, update, so it may be different if I was a new author, but there's really no way of telling unless I start a new account, start posting there, and then try to see if my numbers change when I review. And while I'm normally entirely in favor of being obsessive like that, not when it involves posting an actual, untransferable story in the process. Someone else will need to investigate this. Anyway, the implication that reviewing isn't a good way to get reviews bothers me. But then, it may just be the type of reviews I'm giving and the standard review would work...there's so very many compounding factors.
Anyway.
Silawen wanted to see the Pisces reply, which was long and heavy on the crazy that I so sadly lacked today. So in its full glory:
( Cut to spare sanity, and flists )
And then a few hours later the other one emailed me to be kind of sane and say they would take some of the advice.
