Ratio Matters
The Cliff Anonymous (An Author's Mean Confession)Ratio Matters
I simply freaking don't know why even if you have many subscribers, the votes don't increase more than a ten percent of the subscriber number.
Like if you have 1000 subscribers, the votes will only be 100 +/- 10. I just wonder why a story can't have a 1:1 subscriber-vote ratio when the readers keep on commenting they really like it? If it's that impossible how about 500 votes for every 1000 subscribers?
What's the criteria for voting? You must at least have 25 karma points.
If you vote, you have no point to lose.
But some will still say "I don't have enough karma points." Well sister, it's because you don't do things that will make you earn karma points like giving comments.
If you like the story, vote it. It doesn't matter if it's not the most unique out there, or the most creative. But if you enjoyed even a bit of it, vote. Because I do it. Even if not for the sake of featuring that story in the AFF homepage, but to encourage him/her that the story he/she is writing is doing good.
You wonder why updates keep on getting delayed? It's because authors secretly crave for motivation, and in this site, it's in the form of comments, subscribers, and votes. Trust me when I say this as an author: Even if we're so busy with our lives, even if we are dealing with real life problems, as long as we have enough motivation, we will update, even if that means getting no sleep. Because even if we get no sleep, we feel a sense of fulfillment. We feel that those missed hours of sleep are worth it.
You wonder why I rarely update my fics with so many subscribers? Because I feel more miserable whenever I update compared to dealing with real life problems. I get more underappreciated seeing not enough response and encouragement from the readers. I get more burdened even just by logging in. And when the readers see that you logged in but did not update, they'll think you ran out of ideas for your story. Guess what, I ain't updating because I don't feel like it to be clearly honest. I'm feeling lazy.
Still not convinced? Then wait for another year before I update.
I'm gonna sleep first. I'm gonna wake up when I feel the motivation again, witch.
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