(Anonymous) 2019-12-29 01:09 pm (UTC)(link)
This doesn't just happen with FFA recs. I have someone enthusiastically reccing something I did elsewhere, and it's driven the hits-kudos ratio way down while also resulting in zero new kudos. I get it, because it's a tiny fandom nobody knows - strongly suspect people are clicking in and then going "wait, I have no idea who these people are or what's going on."

So I'm focusing on how nice it is that someone liked it enough to rec it! Not every fic is going to have a pristine hits-kudos ratio. Some fics get rec'd instead, and that's OK.