thefourthvine | Poll: Ride the Recommendations

isiscolo has an interesting post about the effect recommendations have on readership. (This is as judged by website statistics - part of her ongoing series on readership, feedback, and website stats, which I secretly suspect is a plot to make us all want websites. Or, for those of us who have websites, to make us want to put some actual content on them.)

This has been something of a theme with me recently. See, I do this whole recommendations thing so strangely that it is a constant delight to me that anyone reads or uses my LJ. So it never occurred to me that my recommendations might have effects on, say, readership or feedback. But first I had a vidder telling me my rec of her vid had a noticeable effect on downloading, and I swooned from joy. And then

fairestcat and

isiscolo pointed out to me that sometimes you can see actual feedback on stories that probably is the result of your rec! (Like, sometimes people say, "Here from

thefourthvine," which is just the coolest thing ever OMG.) More joyous swooning followed. (If this keeps up, I'll need a fainting couch, and doesn't everyone want a good reason to buy a fainting couch?) And now

isiscolo is saying - well, basically, that LJ recs have an effect, but only current recs; back recs on LJ aren't used as much. (Note: I am excessively over-simplifying her post. Please read it and ignore my summary.)

Me being me, my basic reaction to this was, yes, joyful swooning, and much burbling along the lines of: YAY! People sometimes read the things I recommend, and how neat is that? (Way neat, if you were wondering. Way, way neat.) But my secondary reaction to her conclusions was: hmmm. Perhaps I should update my memories or stop using tags or in some way make my LJ more, you know, useful to people.

And you are the people I want it to be useful to. Plus, I have a sick spouse at home and a bunch of work to do. You know what this means: it's time for yet another poll! (You can totally put "post fewer polls" in question five, by the way.)

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My answer to the third question is all three yes choices with certain exceptions. Sometimes I can read entirely new fandom just based on your (or someone else's) rec, I've discovered that to be a good way to find new fandoms and pairings.
And sometimes it's just a question of mood or the fact that I really want to read something from certain fandom so then it's yay, recs. Any kind of recs. :D

Psst.. You don't happen to know any Rachel/Chandler fic recs? I don't know what's gotten to me, but god, I really want to read at least one good, long, finished R/C fic. The only ones I've found are from ff.net! Help!

Sometimes I can read entirely new fandom just based on your (or someone else's) rec, I've discovered that to be a good way to find new fandoms and pairings.

Yes! That is part of why I do it: I try to provide the free, easy, oh-you'll-love-it samples to get you hooked. My plan is working! *rubs hands, chortles maniacally*

You don't happen to know any Rachel/Chandler fic recs? I don't know what's gotten to me, but god, I really want to read at least one good, long, finished R/C fic.

Sadly, I had to ask Best Beloved to find out who Rachel and Chandler even were, so no. And I can't even think of a community that might help you out there. The only person I can ever remember mentioning Friends (that is the show, right?) fan fiction is

liviapenn, and that was in a meta post a while back (Stop Knocking Down Phoebe (http://liviapenn.livejournal.com/407216.html) - maybe there's some discussion of FF in the comments?).

I can't even find anything tagged Rachel/Chandler or Chandler/Rachel on del.icio.us. Wow.

Um. Best of luck to you in your search, and sorry I couldn't be more helpful. There really needs to be a community to request recs for super-rare fandoms and pairings like this.

(And I hear you on the horrors of ff.net. I've had to go there for certain fandoms recently. It's - it's scary in there. *shivers*)

Sadly, I had to ask Best Beloved to find out who Rachel and Chandler even were, so no. And I can't even think of a community that might help you out there.

My fault entirely. I was so engrossed with them I actually forgot someone might have not watched Friends. This is not the first time that has happened. :D
And yeah, there really isn't comms for them. I found one for Chandler/Joey slash, but sadly that's not what I want. It's really amazing how there isn't even one general fanfic comm for Friends.

I can't even find anything tagged Rachel/Chandler or Chandler/Rachel on del.icio.us. Wow.

I know! I checked it too. How is it possible? Or I guess it's partly because Friends was big before (and okay, after) fanfic came at least somewhat out of its closet. Though the rarity of it is still surprising.

Btw, that's a good idea for a community. I'd join.

Thanks for the link, I'll check it out! I hope it pans out, because otherwise I'll have to go back to ff.net and well, I don't wanna. :)

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