You do great with the feedback - as far as I am concerned :)
Do not ever underestimate the value of the "initial SQUEE!" comment - especially if a vid or fic has just been posted to LJ (or for that matter has been there for years). It means a lot to the poster just to know she isn't vidding or talking into a void - that people are actually downloading her vid (or reading her story, or using her icons or any of a thousand things) and hopefully if they like it - they will tell her.
It can be very disheartening to check on your bandwidth and see that a vid has been downloaded *A LOT* since posted and you have almost no comments. Warranted or not - a lot of people can immediately decide that it just wasn't liked. I mean, you try not to go there - but sometimes irrationality rules.
And I *know* that people download vids and then watch them later and finding the post that you dled from is a hassle and sometimes you just forget and you actually really enjoyed the work. I know this and hell - I am as guilty as anyone of this. Lack of feedback or comments rarely has anything to do with the quality of your work - it can hinge upon something as mundane as the time of day or week that you posted.
And like I said - I am actually pretty well-feedbacked...is that a word? I think it is about par for the course that you'll get something beit a comment or an email, per every 100+ downloads. Sometimes I am up in the 3% range (especially if it is a fandom that is popular and really active at the time of posting) although I've had vids that get a response, any kind of response, about .0005% per download. And the natural human reaction to that is that people hated it. They hated you. You suck. It isn't rational and it certainly isn't true and hopefully you will get over it but it is there.
I posted a vid over a year ago and I knew a few important people liked it. I liked it. I figured everyone else either didn't get it - or hated it, so a few months down the line when I started seeing it rec'd and actually started getting feedback on it - I was kinda shocked. I had gone to the valley of despair with this vid (they hates it! My PRECIOUS!!) and climbed out on the other side happy with what I had done, despite the lack of validation and then BOOM - validation.
So, I do try to keep a healthy mentality about this. I am vidding for an audience - to be sure. But that audience is tiny and comprised of me and a few others and as long as we are happy, I have that. If other people are happy or enjoying my work - that just needs to be gravy. But yeah...sometimes I do look at the number of downloads and wonder if I should just invest in a DVD burner and put out a disc once a year for my buds instead. Then I get over myself and remember that for the most part - the people dling my stuff are just like me and suck at sending regular and prompt feedback.
So she who sends no emails shall not cast any stones. It says that in the Bible. ::nods authoritatively::
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Date: 2005-10-27 03:35 pm (UTC)Do not ever underestimate the value of the "initial SQUEE!" comment - especially if a vid or fic has just been posted to LJ (or for that matter has been there for years). It means a lot to the poster just to know she isn't vidding or talking into a void - that people are actually downloading her vid (or reading her story, or using her icons or any of a thousand things) and hopefully if they like it - they will tell her.
It can be very disheartening to check on your bandwidth and see that a vid has been downloaded *A LOT* since posted and you have almost no comments. Warranted or not - a lot of people can immediately decide that it just wasn't liked. I mean, you try not to go there - but sometimes irrationality rules.
And I *know* that people download vids and then watch them later and finding the post that you dled from is a hassle and sometimes you just forget and you actually really enjoyed the work. I know this and hell - I am as guilty as anyone of this. Lack of feedback or comments rarely has anything to do with the quality of your work - it can hinge upon something as mundane as the time of day or week that you posted.
And like I said - I am actually pretty well-feedbacked...is that a word? I think it is about par for the course that you'll get something beit a comment or an email, per every 100+ downloads. Sometimes I am up in the 3% range (especially if it is a fandom that is popular and really active at the time of posting) although I've had vids that get a response, any kind of response, about .0005% per download. And the natural human reaction to that is that people hated it. They hated you. You suck. It isn't rational and it certainly isn't true and hopefully you will get over it but it is there.
I posted a vid over a year ago and I knew a few important people liked it. I liked it. I figured everyone else either didn't get it - or hated it, so a few months down the line when I started seeing it rec'd and actually started getting feedback on it - I was kinda shocked. I had gone to the valley of despair with this vid (they hates it! My PRECIOUS!!) and climbed out on the other side happy with what I had done, despite the lack of validation and then BOOM - validation.
So, I do try to keep a healthy mentality about this. I am vidding for an audience - to be sure. But that audience is tiny and comprised of me and a few others and as long as we are happy, I have that. If other people are happy or enjoying my work - that just needs to be gravy. But yeah...sometimes I do look at the number of downloads and wonder if I should just invest in a DVD burner and put out a disc once a year for my buds instead. Then I get over myself and remember that for the most part - the people dling my stuff are just like me and suck at sending regular and prompt feedback.
So she who sends no emails shall not cast any stones. It says that in the Bible. ::nods authoritatively::