Re: Doing well/doing badly?

(Anonymous) 2019-12-26 05:22 am (UTC)(link)
It differs by fandom for me. There's one perennial Yuletide fandom I like writing in because the comments are always enthusiastic and abundant. If I had no comments in that fandom I'd probably say it was doing badly, even if my kudos to hits ratio was 1:1.

In most other fandoms I don't factor comments in at all, though. If the recip comments, that's good enough for me. I'll usually look at how my kudos to hits ratio compares to other fics in the fandom. If no one else wrote in that fandom, I'll try comparing to fics in a similar fandom (like a book by the same author, or another five minute fandom, or whatever other totally arbitrary and mostly meaningless criteria I decide on).