Story angst

[rivkat]

Briefly:

1. OK, fess up: which one of you was driving the red car in my neighborhood with the license plate “FANFIC”?

2. My husband sends notes to our kids, for future reference. Recently: “Dear Rivkid, It was very progressive of you to request ‘King & King,’ the same-sex-marriage fairy tale, for your bedtime story tonight. It would have been even more progressive had you not referred to the book as ‘The Two Queens.’”

But most importantly: I love feedback. I want to make it as likely as possible that people will leave feedback on my stories. So, what to do about crossposting? This is my first use of DW's poll feature, for a Very Important Poll.

Poll #368 Maximizing comments

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 69

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Should I consolidate comments on story posts?

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Stay unconsolidated! For me, that creates the lowest psychological barrier to commenting on a story.
16 (23.2%)

Comment counts matter to whether I read a story post; thus, consolidation would be a good idea.
6 (8.7%)

Comment counts matter to whether I read a story post but I’m not reading on DW; thus, don’t consolidate to DW until the crossposter can display the number of comments.
3 (4.3%)

I like reading other people’s comments; thus, consolidation would be a good idea.
49 (71.0%)

I like reading other people’s comments but I’m not reading on DW; thus, don’t consolidate to DW until the crossposter can display the number of comments.
3 (4.3%)

Some other thing that I will tell you in (presently unconsolidated, though you have to answer the poll on DW) comments.
5 (7.2%)

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[ignaz]

Okay, those first two items are making me giggle all over the place here at work.

As for the third, I had to deal with this suddenly yesterday afternoon when I went to post a story for the first time since opening my Dreamwidth account, and I realized I had no idea how to proceed. I ended up posting to LJ with comments enabled and linking from Dreamwidth with comments disabled. I made that decision because most of the fandom is still on LiveJournal and has accounts at LiveJournal and therefore were more likely to comment on LiveJournal.

[topaz_eyes]

Here from metafandom...

What I do for stories is post to LJ first then wait a while to see if anyone comments. If/when they do, then I import it here. That way all the comments get consolidated on one post. Seems to work.