Caroline Seawright wrote:

Feh ... as if I get more than two or three comments on my fics, anyway.
I gave up bothering to try to get people to C&C after I posted my first
fic here and didn't get anything for over a week or so.

 
	I think the problem is this.  Most people don't get much C & C when
they post.  Therefore, the author decides not to C & C others because no
one ever helps him out.  This turns into a cycle and everything goes
downhill from here.  Besides the few dedicated readers out there, I rare
see anyone else do the C & C (from what I've seen on the list, of
course)

So give up complaining ... it won't change people one bit.

 
	I think it is this kind of thinking that is hurting the FFML.  I do
think people will change.  I myself will from now on try read as much as
possible.

I would C&C more if I actually found time to even read the fics that
get posted. But I end up saving them all ... wait to download them...
and never get around to it. *shrug* I've still got stuff sitting in
my fanfic directory that I haven't touched yet. I hardly have time to
reply to normal e-mail ... :p  And I don't really have an incentive
to actually try harder to C&C as hardly anyone bothers to C&C my fics.

 
	Again... the same problem.  Lack of time and the lack of C & C on the
author's own story tends to throw the list into a vivious downward
cycle.

	The world is dark and lonely place... hopeless beyond help (did I get
that right?) 



Don Wang <dwang@sprynet.com>, Vice President of AFSS, member of RPGA and
COR, Self-appointed Protector/Defender/Guardian of Akane Tendo, a
faithful Square and Ranma 1/2 fan