Do you comment on them? If no, why not?
I usually try to comment on them, just because I always feel a little silly for posting a review when no one comments on mine. I'd even settle for people arguing, just to make it feel a little more worthwhile
Have you written a review for the site? If no, why not?
I've done probably ten here so far, and I really enjoy posting them. I've been doing my review blog The Intelli-Gent Reviews as a sort of writing exercise, something to get me feeling positive about my writing before I dive into writing chapters of my own novel. It's been fun, but I've found lately that I don't have as much time to read as I would like. I'd love to be able to post a review every two or three days, but I'm finding now that books are taking me several weeks to read, and that just doesn't work for a blog. Luckily, it does work for this website for the most part, since others are contributing reviews. Now...if someone were interested in co-writing for my blog, that would be just awesome.
I love reviews. They're always interesting, they're good for helping me decide what I do or don't want to read, and they introduce me to new authors. So I find it strange that people here don't seem to care that much about them, despite the fine effort put in by many people here.
I think people pretty much hit the nail on the head. It's not really something that you can easily comment on, other than to say, "good job." That's always appreciated, but doesn't make for much of a debate.
Is there anything we could do that would make you get more involved?
I'd say that the thing that site should do is create a seperate Review tab, so that people can go in and check what's going on. I'm thinking something like the writers board at the old site, where the reviews have to be reviewed (wow, that sounds weird) by an Admin before they're posted. That way people wouldn't miss them, it would be easier to put them in alphabetical order, etc. That's what I'd like to see, but it sounds like a fair amount of work, so I'm not holding my breath.
Rebekah and Jacob, you guys are doing great. Whatever happens, happens. If you're looking to increase traffic to the site in general, I'd say use the popularity of wotmania and the 1 million page views in X number of days as a reason to contact publishers and request review copies. Hell, if you mailed them out to some of the more active review bloggers, that would be even cooler. I'm dreaming a little big there, but it wouldn't be all THAT hard to get review copies for at least the two of you, since the site does have some sway with readers.
Either way, you guys rock!
Formerly Dark Prophecy, now I'm just me.
Strong proponent of a Writing Section here at RAFO.
Strong proponent of a Writing Section here at RAFO.
This message last edited by Bryce on 13/10/2009 at 04:01:24 PM
Do you care about Reviews?
12/10/2009 11:14:39 PM
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Re: Do you care about Reviews?
13/10/2009 01:10:05 AM
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I enjoy the reviews greatly. I wish I could access them all on one page.
13/10/2009 01:12:25 AM
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Well...
13/10/2009 02:06:59 AM
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Special Ed classes? Are you really that behind on your education, young man? *NM*
14/10/2009 04:01:45 AM
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I am rather idiosyncratic about such things.
13/10/2009 05:02:32 AM
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I think you're fairly idiosyncratic about most things.
13/10/2009 11:32:44 AM
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Yes, but...
13/10/2009 10:46:58 AM
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Bien sûr.
13/10/2009 04:31:24 PM
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I had to ask Tim what that means.
13/10/2009 11:32:48 PM
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Wasn't he going to teach you French?
13/10/2009 11:41:28 PM
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Yeah. We kind of stopped doing that. Must get back into it at some point.
14/10/2009 12:05:26 AM
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Usually they're tl;dr *NM*
14/10/2009 12:50:54 AM
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I pretty much read all of them.
14/10/2009 04:51:39 AM
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Speaking as a reviewer, it's just nice to get an affirmation once and a while...
15/10/2009 04:42:56 PM
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