Do you like (as select like) your own chapters?

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When I jump into a session of writing the first chapter I write of a given set is going to be absolute garbage. And the last chapter or the tail end is also going to suck because I'm exhausted. But there's a sweet spot when I got a flow I know where I'm going and those middle chapters are just golden. I really like those stretches of writing. The problem is the up-and-down
 
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I bang that favorite button like I bang [insert funny thing to imply I'm having sex with].
 
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I never like/favorite/rate/review my own stuff. Just feels wrong to me, so 100% of those on my stories are from readers (or trolls, I know damn well my story isn't a one-star quality level)
 
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CrimsonGenius said:
Never like or fake review your stuff.
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Okay, but how is clicking your own like button fake? If you DON'T like it, then why did you publish it?
As for fake reviews, all reviews are opinions. There is no OBJECTIVE way to review a story. Yes, you can make objective statements about a story. For example, "The Last Jedi was full of subverted expectations." Now, I can color it by saying, "The Last Jedi was a steaming pile of subverted expectations." and I am sure you get my opinion on what a subverted expectation is, but if having your expectations subverted is good or bad is still a subjective matter.

(Side note: The Last Jedi was awful, however, the first time seeing it, it was So Awful there were times I flat-out laughed my ass off. Princess Lela Marry Poppin' her ass through space had me cracking up! So love it or hate it, I was entertained.)

I think the only way you could say a review was "fake" was if you failed to disclose you were the creator. Using a Sock Account, for example. However, I would clarify that I consider such a review to be "deceptive" not "fake". A lie is something that is Technically False. Spiritually False, and Knowingly False.

Something Technically false but the other two are true is a Metaphor.
Something Spiritual false but the other two are true is a Deception.
Something Unknowingly false is always just incorrect.

I myself do not review my own work, because my work speaks for itself, but I do like my own work, so I hit the Favorite icon, usually. There are some chapters I have published that I was not happy with, and I did not favorite those chapters. Sometimes the chapter is filler or connective tissue and does not have any meaning. It's there because it has to be there. We all know those chapters. The ones that exist to allow better chapters to happen. I will not favor those, but the rest of my work, certainly.

And if there was not a synopsis for every story (which is the Author's chance to "review" his own story), I WOULD have a review for my own story, just so people knew what my vision was and what to expect.

If you object to reviews, then CLEARLY you object to the synopsis.
They are the same thing just with a different name.
If you DON'T object to the synopsis, then you are being logically inconsistent.
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Ahem... Tentacle monSTER. Singular.
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TheEldritchGod said:
Okay, but how is clicking your own like button fake? If you DON'T like it, then why did you publish it?
As for fake reviews, all reviews are opinions. There is no OBJECTIVE way to review a story. Yes, you can make objective statements about a story. For example, "The Last Jedi was full of subverted expectations." Now, I can color it by saying, "The Last Jedi was a steaming pile of subverted expectations." and I am sure you get my opinion on what a subverted expectation is, but if having your expectations subverted is good or bad is still a subjective matter.

(Side note: The Last Jedi was awful, however, the first time seeing it, it was So Awful there were times I flat-out laughed my ass off. Princess Lela Marry Poppin' her ass through space had me cracking up! So love it or hate it, I was entertained.)

I think the only way you could say a review was "fake" was if you failed to disclose you were the creator. Using a Sock Account, for example. However, I would clarify that I consider such a review to be "deceptive" not "fake". A lie is something that is Technically False. Spiritually False, and Knowingly False.

Something Technically false but the other two are true is a Metaphor.
Something Spiritual false but the other two are true is a Deception.
Something Unknowingly false is always just incorrect.

I myself do not review my own work, because my work speaks for itself, but I do like my own work, so I hit the Favorite icon, usually. There are some chapters I have published that I was not happy with, and I did not favorite those chapters. Sometimes the chapter is filler or connective tissue and does not have any meaning. It's there because it has to be there. We all know those chapters. The ones that exist to allow better chapters to happen. I will not favor those, but the rest of my work, certainly.

And if there was not a synopsis for every story (which is the Author's chance to "review" his own story), I WOULD have a review for my own story, just so people knew what my vision was and what to expect.

If you object to reviews, then CLEARLY you object to the synopsis.
They are the same thing just with a different name.
If you DON'T object to the synopsis, then you are being logically inconsistent.

Ahem... Tentacle monSTER. Singular.
I am happily married and quite devoted to a monogamous relationship.
There is no woman for me other than Mrs. Neverborn.
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It would just like your mom voting for you for during a pageant show when no one else would. It wouldn’t count if it was your mom and not the rest of your peers. That’s if your mom would love everything you do.
 
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CrimsonGenius said:
It would just like your mom voting for you for during a pageant show when no one else would. It wouldn’t count if it was your mom and not the rest of your peers. That’s if your mom would love everything you do.
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Annnnd?
I don't see your point. My mom's opinion doesn't count? Why? Besides her being dead, of course.

If I looked at your story and your mom wouldn't even hit the favorite button, then your story must SUCK. If I look at a story and there are MANY views, but you can't even get ONE favorite, that means not even THE AUTHOR thinks his writing is worth my time.

The site could easily prevent authors from favoriting their own work. They don't. Ergo, it's permitted. If you don't do it, you hate your own writing. You can have your own reasons and think that it's some sort of humility or the "proper" way of doing it, or "fair" or some such nonsense, but there is no logic to your choice. You are making an emotional choice.

I'm not saying get together twenty fake accounts and like your shit, that would be deceptive. However, you are permitted to favorite your own work. Your MOM can favorite your work as well and I don't see how that's a problem. Personally, I find the RATIO of views to favorites to be far more important than the number. I have chapters with... 39 views, but 5 likes. That's better than 10%. But that's only on the low end. When you get over 1000, you should have at least a 1% ratio to be average.

I see ratios in the 2% range with over 5000 views and I know that's good stuff. On the low end, anything under 100, I know that's niche work, and thus for those who like the sort of thing, I expect to be in the 10% range.

One favorite isn't going to change anything. I already discussed how there are about 3 phantom views on most chapters from bots, however, I think after talking about how that was happening, the site owner addressed my concerns and it seems to have stopped. Your one favorite isn't going to move the needle, except when the view count is in the toilet. It sure isn't going to get noticed on the algorithm. Favorites aren't what gets attention, it's engagement.

Now, Spamming your comment section, you shouldn't do THAT. That's nothing more than trying to mess with the algorithm. I believe it is the number of unique commentators that has the most weight, but I have not tested it, nor do I intend to. Favorites and Reviews have little effect on if your story winds up on the front page. I have noticed the few times I wound up there, it was always when I posted a chapter that got my readers thinking and discussing the topic presented.

I assume it is also on days where other stories were slow because I noticed stories that get thousands of views were bumped in favor of my story, which at most got about a hundred. But when I checked the comment sections of those chapters against mine, they were as quiet and still as a sheltered pond on a clear day, whereas my readers were posting up a storm.

There is no significant advantage to favoriting your chapters. I see no point in reviewing your own work, that's what the synopsis is for. The only cheesy thing you can do for any sort of advantage is to try to get your readers to comment and then provoke them when they do so they post more.

But I am disturbed that you feel the opinion of your relatives isn't valid. People are people, no matter what their relationship is with you. Everyone deserves to express themselves. Even if the expressed opinion is "predetermined" because of other factors and relationships, they are still people and deserve to state their opinions.
 
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