Poll: Ride the Recommendations

[thefourthvine]

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.)

[Poll #878107]

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[halcyon-shift.livejournal.com]

Post-Vid Neurosis

Complacence: "Email sent, yays, I am awesomez!" (this lasts about 2 hours)
Nervousness: "No reponse, traditional holidays and life must trump vids" (this last about 24-36 hours, time during which can be measured accurately in base 5 minute email refresh increments, unless paying attention to what the right brain is doing)
Psychosis: I have time to re-do the entire thing. SLEEP IS FOR THE WEAK.
Paranoid: They hate it. They're just trying to work out a nice way to ask me to burn and salt it and it turned them to STONE. I HAVE SHAMED MY ANCESTORS. (I snap like a dried sparrow femur after about 10 minutes and ask someone to look and make sure I don't need to commit Sepuku)
Placated: All is Zen, life it beautiful, I observe the minutae of the world and find it good an- IS THAT A GHOST FRAME?!
Common sense: ... maybe they didn't get the email?

I embrace my character flaws.

Which is to say, it's all good as long as you got the email *g* There's no rush if you don't mind it coming in over the November 30 deadline.

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

I caused a neurosis. Wow. (Although, you know, it occurs to me that this is sort of like Yuletide, when I, at any rate, compulsively refresh looking for a comment from the person I wrote for, because, well, it's for that person, and the other comments are wonderful and buoy my spirits for whole minutes at a stretch - okay, hours - but I will be convinced I SUCK AND FAIL AND OMG I LOSE AT YULETIDE until I get the One Comment.)

Next time, I will try to remember that my vidder may not be as convinced of her own brilliance as I am.

There's no rush if you don't mind it coming in over the November 30 deadline.

Is it sad that I, um, looked at this and went, "We have a DEADLINE?"

Yes. Yes, I think it is. (Well, actually, I knew there was a deadline, but I thought it was the end of February and you were just overachieving by doing it now.)

[halcyon-shift.livejournal.com]

I suspect I am not alone in my neurosis or, you know, even new to it - but possibly we can name this particular varient after you. It's not quite as good as "The Fourth Vine Proof" or something might be but maybe you can work your way up...

It was Nov 30, but I prefer your version. Yes! I am being massively organised and over-achieving and in no way pushing the deadline whatsoever.

If you're not deadliney, I'm not deadliney. We don't need no steenkin deadlines!