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farlaHuh. So, for stories that are several days old across fandom, slightly better hits then when I joined, but still basically within ten to twenty at best, and maxing out around fifty. And comments are still few and generally one. So the better stories on Aooo are getting comparable-to-worse-attention as Dammerung, a story posted in an extremely low-traffic area of the site by an author whose readers aren't interested in the fandom. There was a big boost during the Yuletide thing, but now it seems to have tapered off.
(I'm sure part of the problem is that people are uploading a lot of prewritten work, but that should have slowed down a while ago.)
And I still don't want to review...or comment, as it is, because when I do go looking through comments they're all - I am not kidding, go look, all - the LJ sort of "I loved this." and "(Line) I really liked this bit!" and I'm not wading into a potential shitstorm until I have time to spare.
Tags system is still annoying me. I think I'd just be ignoring it if it didn't seem like the primary way people look for stories, so if one of the tags my story has doesn't catch their eye, it'll likely never even be seen. They've fixed the problem of only being able to designate a male or female OC, but they also removed the ensemble tag from my stories. When I first used it, it didn't exist. Then it was removed from my story, so I figured they only wanted individual characters. Then when I went to upload a different one later, and found that the tag does exist, so apparently Butterfly Wings didn't qualify under whatever criteria they used. Okay, I thought, maybe they want to use "ensemble" to mean everyone gets equal screentime, but then, how am I supposed to know what the appropriate tag term is for "the cast shows up" and why couldn't they have just changed it to that instead of making me guess? So I stuck "the full canon cast" on there in irritation, because at least that's clear about what I mean, and now that redirects to ensemble. I don't know. Meanwhile bad tags like her maid (named here) are still on far more trafficked stories than Butterfly Wings, which I originally thought meant they couldn't delete tags but I guess not. The tags move in mysterious ways.
Then there's the collections section, which seems to be an attempt at a better C2, mainly in that authors can add their own stories. Except (at least right now) only the author can add their own stories. It's already looking messy, and in some ways it looks worse than the C2s, because at least when people on FFN used a C2 for something like collecting all their own stories of a subcategory, they were doing it on a site that didn't have the ability to collect some of your own works, like say as a series. Similarly, collecting all second person stories is kind of weird given the site uses tags for that. (There's also one for the deathfic. When that's one of the top-level warnings you can filter stories by as well as a tag.) Mostly, these are all unmoderated too, so it's not "a subset of the stories you could find via tag, which have been selected for quality". A lot have confusing explanations for what sort of story qualifies, and then there are the ones that are completely baffling.
There's currently a hundred of these, with no way of sorting through them. There don't seem to be any rules against using the collections however you feel like, so I'm not sure if anything even can be done about it.
But I made my own anyway: Foefic, for fic when you're not a fan, because the best way to see how something works is as always to jump in. So in the event anyone scrolls all the way to the bottom of the collections page, they'll run into it. Also, I like that it's directly contradictory to the fandom subgroup that believes we should respect creator intent.
(People were talking about writing and what inspires them. And really, what motivates me is contradiction. That's probably why I've stuck with fanfic so long, it's something that, by nature, is explicitly a reaction to something else.)
(I'm sure part of the problem is that people are uploading a lot of prewritten work, but that should have slowed down a while ago.)
And I still don't want to review...or comment, as it is, because when I do go looking through comments they're all - I am not kidding, go look, all - the LJ sort of "I loved this." and "(Line) I really liked this bit!" and I'm not wading into a potential shitstorm until I have time to spare.
Tags system is still annoying me. I think I'd just be ignoring it if it didn't seem like the primary way people look for stories, so if one of the tags my story has doesn't catch their eye, it'll likely never even be seen. They've fixed the problem of only being able to designate a male or female OC, but they also removed the ensemble tag from my stories. When I first used it, it didn't exist. Then it was removed from my story, so I figured they only wanted individual characters. Then when I went to upload a different one later, and found that the tag does exist, so apparently Butterfly Wings didn't qualify under whatever criteria they used. Okay, I thought, maybe they want to use "ensemble" to mean everyone gets equal screentime, but then, how am I supposed to know what the appropriate tag term is for "the cast shows up" and why couldn't they have just changed it to that instead of making me guess? So I stuck "the full canon cast" on there in irritation, because at least that's clear about what I mean, and now that redirects to ensemble. I don't know. Meanwhile bad tags like her maid (named here) are still on far more trafficked stories than Butterfly Wings, which I originally thought meant they couldn't delete tags but I guess not. The tags move in mysterious ways.
Then there's the collections section, which seems to be an attempt at a better C2, mainly in that authors can add their own stories. Except (at least right now) only the author can add their own stories. It's already looking messy, and in some ways it looks worse than the C2s, because at least when people on FFN used a C2 for something like collecting all their own stories of a subcategory, they were doing it on a site that didn't have the ability to collect some of your own works, like say as a series. Similarly, collecting all second person stories is kind of weird given the site uses tags for that. (There's also one for the deathfic. When that's one of the top-level warnings you can filter stories by as well as a tag.) Mostly, these are all unmoderated too, so it's not "a subset of the stories you could find via tag, which have been selected for quality". A lot have confusing explanations for what sort of story qualifies, and then there are the ones that are completely baffling.
There's currently a hundred of these, with no way of sorting through them. There don't seem to be any rules against using the collections however you feel like, so I'm not sure if anything even can be done about it.
But I made my own anyway: Foefic, for fic when you're not a fan, because the best way to see how something works is as always to jump in. So in the event anyone scrolls all the way to the bottom of the collections page, they'll run into it. Also, I like that it's directly contradictory to the fandom subgroup that believes we should respect creator intent.
(People were talking about writing and what inspires them. And really, what motivates me is contradiction. That's probably why I've stuck with fanfic so long, it's something that, by nature, is explicitly a reaction to something else.)
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