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%)

Comments

[lambourngb]

I will read you no matter where you go. I will most likely comment via DW because i have more icons there.

To make it more confusing though, because I have two habits- I love reading other people's comments, and if the story is immensely popular and posted on LJ & DW, I would probably read it on LJ because there are plugins to expand comment threads for Firefox/LJ, and that don't exist on DW. Yet. If you do consolidate on DW, and get 5 pages of comments, I don't know I could wade through everyone's thoughts with the tiring click, go-back, click, go-back...

Unless I'm blind and there is an expand all thread function for DW- if so, please someone point it out! :)

[turlough]

(*waves to OP* Hi! Here through metafandom.)

It's very simple to get the Expand All Threads Greasemonkey script to work on DW too. This entry tells you how.