I think I was lucky in that my first fannish interactions were very welcoming to the lurkers. I think if I'd been told I had to participate I'd have freaked out, ran away, and never gone back. People lurk for a variety of reasons.
I count them as well, because evidently someone was interested enough to read it again or to rec it to friends. And seriously, it isn't that much different from "I liked it."
I actually almost prefer it to an "I liked it" on sites that show other people the things you've favorited. I can't count the number of fics I found by looking at an authors favorites. Especially at FF.N where it was just an easier way of finding fic then digging through everything else.
I'm thinking 1:150 sounds about right. I feel kinda bad, I'm a tag wrangler over there, and sometimes I'm looking at a tag and I can't for the life of me figure out if it's an obscure character from the source or an unlabled crossover so I have to click on the fic. Yet another source of those no-comment-hits.
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carisma_sensei
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Date: 2010-03-11 05:40 pm (UTC)I think I was lucky in that my first fannish interactions were very welcoming to the lurkers. I think if I'd been told I had to participate I'd have freaked out, ran away, and never gone back. People lurk for a variety of reasons.
I count them as well, because evidently someone was interested enough to read it again or to rec it to friends. And seriously, it isn't that much different from "I liked it."
I actually almost prefer it to an "I liked it" on sites that show other people the things you've favorited. I can't count the number of fics I found by looking at an authors favorites. Especially at FF.N where it was just an easier way of finding fic then digging through everything else.
I'm thinking 1:150 sounds about right. I feel kinda bad, I'm a tag wrangler over there, and sometimes I'm looking at a tag and I can't for the life of me figure out if it's an obscure character from the source or an unlabled crossover so I have to click on the fic. Yet another source of those no-comment-hits.