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So what have AO3 done now?
Oct. 7th, 2010 11:24 pmIn regard to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
metafandom's latest kerfuffle (mercifully ism-free and so low-intensity) concerning feedback and downloads:
Your comments-to-hits ratio was 1%? (adopts faux Yorkshire accent) SHEER LUXURY!
Basically, that's about the best you can expect unless you actually are a BNF -- and a fair few of those comments will likely be drive-bys. It's a bit frustrating, yes, but there isn't much you can do about it short of begging or threatening to throw a strop if you don't get them, which will just get you mocked. I did a few calculations on the stats from Checkmated, which I'd always thought of as a particularly good archive for getting comments; turns out it's a corollary of the fact that it's also a good archive for hits. The proportions clustered around 0.5%, with the maximum of 1.16% the only one to top 1%. (Still seems better than FictionAlley though.)
As for the problems with the "download as PDF" feature at AO3, put me in the large camp that says "so? What's new?" Once it's posted on the web -- well, if someone can access it in the first place, they can download it if they really want to, forward the downloads anywhere they want, and generally muck about with it to their heart's content. And there are many perfectly good reasons why they might want to (e.g. reading offline). There's absolutely no point in getting antsy about an archive feature that makes the process a bit more convenient.
Hell, the only reason I didn't put PDFs on![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
snorkfics was that I'm lazy and didn't expect the number of downloads to be worth the effort of making them up. Far from being upset at anyone wanting their own copy of one of my fics, I'd be thrilled that they liked it enough to do that. But then I've never quite seen the logic behind getting quite so passionately proprietorial over something that is, after all, a derived work based on some pre-existing canon you didn't write.
I've never been an AO3 partisan who goes around saying it's the greatest thing since they invented shipping, but I've always been happy to give it a chance. I still don't go there often, but the structure is getting quite impressive now, and it's really beginning to show its worth.
metafandom's latest kerfuffle (mercifully ism-free and so low-intensity) concerning feedback and downloads:Your comments-to-hits ratio was 1%? (adopts faux Yorkshire accent) SHEER LUXURY!
Basically, that's about the best you can expect unless you actually are a BNF -- and a fair few of those comments will likely be drive-bys. It's a bit frustrating, yes, but there isn't much you can do about it short of begging or threatening to throw a strop if you don't get them, which will just get you mocked. I did a few calculations on the stats from Checkmated, which I'd always thought of as a particularly good archive for getting comments; turns out it's a corollary of the fact that it's also a good archive for hits. The proportions clustered around 0.5%, with the maximum of 1.16% the only one to top 1%. (Still seems better than FictionAlley though.)
As for the problems with the "download as PDF" feature at AO3, put me in the large camp that says "so? What's new?" Once it's posted on the web -- well, if someone can access it in the first place, they can download it if they really want to, forward the downloads anywhere they want, and generally muck about with it to their heart's content. And there are many perfectly good reasons why they might want to (e.g. reading offline). There's absolutely no point in getting antsy about an archive feature that makes the process a bit more convenient.
Hell, the only reason I didn't put PDFs on
snorkfics was that I'm lazy and didn't expect the number of downloads to be worth the effort of making them up. Far from being upset at anyone wanting their own copy of one of my fics, I'd be thrilled that they liked it enough to do that. But then I've never quite seen the logic behind getting quite so passionately proprietorial over something that is, after all, a derived work based on some pre-existing canon you didn't write.I've never been an AO3 partisan who goes around saying it's the greatest thing since they invented shipping, but I've always been happy to give it a chance. I still don't go there often, but the structure is getting quite impressive now, and it's really beginning to show its worth.
