it really gets me frusterated when you see people read your stories but don't review. It really gets me going if i get a review, so i don't get why so many don't review. I love reviews, even if they are critical. You?

I agree! If you're going to take the time to read a story you might as well review. I mean is that not the reason we right? To see what people think? How do we know what they think if they do not speak their minds!?!

Jeez, -Sighs.- I simply do not understand. Even if its critisism it's still nice with the thought.

And saying:

"Please update."

IS NOT A FREAKING WORTH IT REVIEW. I want to shank all the people who do that!!!

Like this girl on my story Whirlwind, EVERY single freaking time she reviews its the SAME THING.

"Update soon."

She's lucky I don't know her! -Rips apart a phone book.- RAWR!

'"Please update."

IS NOT A FREAKING WORTH IT REVIEW. I want to shank all the people who do that!!!'

Eh, I once got a ":(" because I put my story off for a while.

I actually don't mind when I don't get many reviews. I'm one of those writers who likes to reply to EVERY review (well, the signed ones. I do what I can for the anon ones) so when i update a story and I have like 40 new reviews for that chapter, it gets a little...long. In fact, sometimes it takes me more time to reply to all my reviews than it does to write the damn chapter. On the other hand, I want some recognition guys. Which is why I don't mind just hearing that you faved my story. At least you cared enough for that.

>>36 Oh yes! There's one girl, and one every single story, her review is 'love it'. That too means to me that they are just reviewing because they're wanna be my friend. I don't really care about her reviews anymore. I don't even think she actually reads them before reviewing. It has happened that I put up quite a lengthy story that would take at least half an hour to read, and she already reviewed it after ten minutes or something. That disappoints me more than getting no reviews.

I recently got a review saying "Whoa, this is a straight copy from x's story. Same story, same length, same plotline. Only yours is riddled with grammar mistakes. That's just very cheap of you, Bola." I was seriously pissed off. I don't read others' stories if they're dealing with the same ideas I have to prevent that from happening. I have been plagiarized two times before with said person getting 40+ reviews and I none because she PMs every person she knows or who has ever reviewed/favorited to read it, and I refuse to lower myself to that. That's just sick. That's just... THAT'S CHEAP! Anyway... So I went to read the story the review had mentioned, and indeed I had read it (and reviewed), but after mine was finished, just to see how she had done it.

Is it impossible to have the same ideas as someone else without knowing when it is obvious what might have happened? Argh! Her story was 1500+ words. Mine was about 450. Same length, indeed. -rolls eyes- I know there were mistakes in grammar. That was only because no one wanted to beta read, even though I had contacted about everyone in the fandom. I had done my best to fix as much I could, but didn't have any idea where the mistakes were. If that makes sense... I personally think it was cheap of her to review anonymously so that I couldn't reply, and that she judged me without knowing me. She just called me cheap without knowing the way I do things. ARGH. Anyway, I did notice similarities with the author author's story, and PM'ed her to ask if it bothered her that my story had some resemblance. She didn't PM back. I took my responsibility and deleted it, since her story was up first, even though I didn't actually plagiarize anything.

Those are just reviews that make me very pissed off. Often enough, especially when I was a newbie at ff.net, I learned a lot from the critique I got. I must admit that I never liked getting them, but leanred to appreciate them later. I followed the advice given, and often the same readers came back later and praised my writing for it had improved a lot.

I just can't stand reviews like aformentioned, or readers who are just bound to say that this or that is unnecessary, creepy, confusing, awkward... whatever, and never can say something good about it.

Personally, I really enjoy getting reviews, but I'm also happy recieving any feedback, alerts, favorites, anything, it makes me happy to know people at least get some enjoyment from my work... whether they review or not.

I like getting reviews but when people just ask for updates it kind of annoys me. I hate getting cap-locked reviews. It might just be me and my issues but it makes me feel as if their yelling at me and I prefer normal tone.

I think what matters most is actually getting a review that caused your reader to talk about the subject or ramlbe about the story. There is this short story I wrote and it only got 13 reviews. I was far from satisfied up until I read them.

From a long review: "what makes a great story? is it the writing or the way characters are described, probably but i think mainly in my p.o.v. it's how the author expresses feelings, probably their own feelings or feelings that they have seen others go through, by using their, or others, characters. this fanfic shows a lot of feelings and i bet you worked really hard even if some chapters were shorter. i'm not a critic, but even if it is a fanfic you have a lot of talent on how to express feelings. keep writng and happy new years^_^ loved the story and it's kinda true in life their are no happy endings, but their are happy moments"

To something as small and simpl as this: "Wow. Wow! This is just so wonderful! You've structured it just right. And the general impression from the whole story is just life-asserting and mature. You've done a great job. I'm really impressed and moved. Thanks a lot."

It is frustrating when you got over so many hits/alerts/favs and no reviews but when you receive a review that is like 'wow I really read your story' it brings you a sense of pride and awe. Ya, know? 'People actually like my story' feeling.

I unfortunately have asked only for updates, but that's when I'm super sleepy. I regret EVER doing that.

I love getting reviews on my done story. Even flames~ They can be funny to read, and I'm sort of an odd ball.

Reviews are important; both to make your work better and to make you as a writer feel more confident. I absolutely detest flamers who bash solely for the purpose of being mean/rude (all my AN have something at the end about not flaming). On the other hand, constructive criticism is a good thing.

As a 'veteran' on fan-fiction dot net (5 yrs with an account, and longer without) here are some things I've found that help get more reviews on a story:

a) Have a summery, preferably a good one (it's what gets people to read the story, after all). Never say "I'm not good at writing summaries, so just read it" because the first thing most people will do when they read this is skip on over to the next one.

b) If you're wanting a lot of people to read it and you're not choosy about what you write about, choose a topic that's popular (like Naruto, DBZ, Sailor Moon, Harry Potter, etc) and/or choose pairings that are popular/controversial (you'd be surprised how many people want to read about nearly impossible pairings like Sakura/Itachi or Hermione/Tom Riddle).

c) If what the topic you wish to write on is rather unknown, a fresh look on things (such as a new pairing or plot idea) can give you a lead.

d) And finally, the thing that helps the most with getting reviews is to write well. Have a good storyline that draws people in, and have good grammar as well as good plot-devices to keep people reading.

As to review length and content, I, of course, feel that it's better to have relative meaning to the review (smiley faces just don't cut it) and constructive criticism or praise is always welcome.

Long, detailed reviews are nice, however, a mere "good job, keep it up. Update soon." is nice as well. It may not be as helpful as more detailed reviews, but it does show that people have at least read the story and like it. In response to a few of the posts I read, I don't think people usually write reviews in order to 'be nice' to a 'friend' (sure, there may be some, but it's not common) because usually even your friends won't take the time to write to you a 'nice' review about a story if they haven't read through it.

As to getting more hits than reviews, that's normal, many people are in too much of a rush to take the time to make a decent review. Other times some of the hits are people who've already read and reviewed the story, but are re-reading it and don't feel the need to write another review. Heck, there are even some people who don't understand how placing a review works (I don't know what they don't understand, but I know they exist).

Hmm...well, I may post something else later, but this should be more than enough for now.

~JUCHKO

I love getting reviews as much as the next person, but I've found myself getting excited for certain people to review. Why? Because those people actually READ my story and give real feedback besides, 'Love It! Update soon!' 40 fracking times.

>>45 Yeah, around my fandom there are authors who are better than others. When I get an email that says x person who is a good reviewer has reviewed, I am excited to read it.

I don't ask for updates, I just say "can't wait until the next chapter is posted", because I don't want to be pushy, I just want to be nice.

I love getting reviews, but i understand if people don't cuz i'm lazy sometimes too XD. I love giving and getting feedback, but i too would rather not get something like 'update soon!' multiple times in a row.

Sometimes, those make me want to say, "Hey, I have a life too, you know!"

I like getting reviews. I mean, I understand if you're tired and you don't want to think too hard about reviewing. I get that. But when that happens to me I always go back the next day and review their story, because it's nice and will probably prompt them to keep writing. I would appreciate the same.

I stumbled across this thread earlier, and on a whim I decided to figure out the rough review-to-hit ratios for each of my last seven fanfics. The lowest is currently at 30 hits to 1 review, the highest at 66 hits to 1 review.

When considering that I'm not an especially prolific poster and don't write popular stuff, those ratios make me feel kinda fuzzy. (And I know I haven't been drinking tonight...)

I had a story accidentally deleated, so i ended up losing about 20 reviews. So now, my 6 chapter story looks like i only have 3 reviews. It's a bummer. and i hate flames. It makes you feel like you're writing's not good enough

I prefer reviews.....I totally agree with MyDeadlyPremonition and PieLand....They help and it kinda boosts our FanWriting egos...lol....I enjoy it, but I hate flamers...They upset me so bad....I mean, they just tear us down, just to make them happy because they can't write anything due to lack of imagination...

I currently have 31,976 hits on all my stories, and only about 133 reviews, counting multiple reviews by the same person. This equates to around 1 review per 240 views. Now, this isn't to say that I do not like views, but at least give the common courtesy to say something. As a university student, I need to have work reviewed! Same applies to fiction work!

I love getting reviews I have been a writer for a while. When reading my storys you can see how I have progressed over the years. I know that my grammer is still bad but noone ever wants to betta for me to help me cath things. Anyway my newest story I have two reviewrsthat review for every chapter It makes me so warm and fuzzy I just wish I had more that two reviewers

My hits/reads are in the triple digits daily and my stories' reviews are only in the low double digits...T_T

I've learned to not fret over reviews too much, I get emails all the time of people favoriting or alerting my stories. So I take it as people like my story and see nothing wrong with it to critique it.^^;;; BUT I WOULD LOVE 4657897654 REVIEWS, PLEASE!!!!! XD

I like getting hits, but it really makes me happy when I have a review as well. Hits are nice and all, but one really good review can just make my day :) Know what I mean? Plus, reviews usually mean that they've actually taken the time to read the whole thing.

I'm just glad to see that someone reads my stories. That's all I can ask for, really xD I always make sure that I review now, especially now that I've submitted my own works. I haven't gotten one review yet, but I'm not too worried (I only submitted two stories so far anyways). Ah, I digress.

Reviews are my favorite. They can tell me if they liked it and want to keep reading it in one thing. I love when someone reviews because like a lot said, it means they read the whole chapters and are intrested in more. I always try to thank them, because it's a nice thing to do when someone takes the time to read your hard work, I think. I review a lot too.

I like hits.
Pretty much everyone I talk to (as in, actually know) never review. And, even though I know that hit counts are very inaccurate (people who accidentally click in, only read the first few lines, or read the story over and over are counted equally), I still care more about how many people actually read it, rather than the people who obsessively review, beg for updates, and poke or moan about pairings or character appearances.

Can you tell I'm a little apathetic towards reviewers...? :'D

I used to really enjoy and obsess over reviews. It got so bad that I would write a story just to see how many reveiws I would get. Thankfully, I got over that and just write what I want to write and when I want to write....Which hasn't been for almost a year, but I still love to read so that's fine with me.

what i like best is how popular some of the stories would get.
i have this junjo romatnica one "A STALKING HORROR" and in less than a month it got 50 reviews and over 7k hits. it might have been because i updated every four days, but they loved that i updated so often. i usually tyep seven chapters in a row and just copy an dpaste on ein every four days, that way i keep ahead of the readers!

sometimes it just urks me when you see so many hits yet very few reviews.

December Stats: For the month of 2010-12, there have been a total of 7,622 Hits and 1,375 Visitors to story: Italian Ice.

If I had that many reviews... :)

The story, in reality, has 296 reviews.

bothers me when i post up stories and no one reviews just reads

I use to obsses about getting reviews. That was what drove my determination to finish. However, over the months, that has disappeared and I just post chapters whenever I feel like so. Reviews aren't as "yayy" to me as it used to be b/c of the lack of imput most people give me.

They were filled with "Keep going!" "It was so good, update soon!" "I LOVED that part!" Like, c'mon?? Which part? I only like thoughtful reviews, the ones that make you keep going. And I just KNOW that almost all authors do. So whenever I read, I (try to) do my best and give a long, thoughtful reveiw. Critics are also nice reveiws. (:

What IS a hit? I get what a "view" is, it's kinda obvious, but a hit? Somebody explain, please.

I like getting long, well thought-out reviews more than anything. I have a humor one-shot that has 33 short "that was funny" reviews, but I'd trade them all for two serious reviews on my other stories. It's still nice to get them, period, tho. I had one fanfic up for at least a year before getting a single review, despite that fact that people kept reading it. I like to get feedback from my fellow writers so I can know how to improve.

A 'hit' is the same as a 'view' - not to be confused with a 'visitor'.

A visitor is a unique person who has viewed your page, they can refresh your page, or reopen it and it will increase your views, but not your visitors.

Reviews are really what makes writing fanfictions worthwhile for me - if it wasn't for people supporting me I probably would have given this up ages ago.

If you're not getting any reviews, try making friends with some other authors in your section. You can agree to review each-others chapters when they come out and they tend to be good at giving constructive criticism.

I hate it when I get a view but not a review. I don't even care if in the review you say you hate my story, just at least write something so I have a guess to how my story was viewed. Though don't get me wrong I don't support flammers. Just seriously take what five minutes out of your day and write at least one bloody review for the story you just read.

Ummmm, let's see....

For reviews to my stories I have....
87-Just Bleachy
63-A Different Naruto
0-NarutoTimetravelChange of DNA?
0-A Vow
11-Sawada Daiouji Tsunayoshi
2-How What Meow?
8-Humans, Nekos, Inugamis, Tanuki's, and Kitsunes?
22-Tsuna Has His Secrets Too

...I wish people would review....TT-TT

But at least the ones that do are usually good at criticizing...

I don't even pay attention to views. I don't do stuff for other people, I do it for myself so it just doesn't matter to me.

Let's see...

For the reviews I have totally for my stories: 210, then again, that's because I post fics most of the time or I have a longer time on FF.net, and these are out of 44 fics. :P

Anyway for each one is statistically its:
20 Lights and Nights (Same reason as 'To Court a Critic')- 5
40 Sentences of Uchiha ItachixKinomoto Sakura - 3
Another Dimension - 23
Artists - 4
Behind These Hazel Eyes - 8
Betrayal and Lust - 1
Dark and Light - 1
Detective Jordan (I admit, I lost the whole document containing the story, darn) - 3
Even if you don't have a heart, I'll still care - 4
Finally Home - 1
Hope - 7
Kaiba Has No Luck (Written by my younger sister) - 10
Kaitou Kid Convention - 5
Mirror - 5
My Wish - 1
Poem for Ash Ketchum and Namine, Namine POV - 3
Possible Love (This was just a running thought) - 14
Puppets - 3
Sayonara - 1
Songbird - 3
Stars - 2
Sympathize - 5
Take a Chance (I still have the document, which is good, except with the fact that I don't know what to write for the next chap) - 14
The Card Captors Meet Yu-Gi-Oh (I forgot I had this) - 5
The Date! - 3
Thiective (Ok, for this one, I'll have to find and figure out the next chap for this, sorry fans out there) - 49
Things That May Not Happen (Gave up that one a long time ago) - 6
To Court a Critic (One of of the ones I enjoyed writing, but somehow stopped since I'm busy with college and all) - 14

...I feel somehow dissatisfied and somehow satisfied that I've been read, favored, alerted, reviewed, and so on, my new fics may take some time to be reviewed, sadly...those that have zero reviews aren't included in this. Dissatisfied for only being read, and not reviewed, satisfied for those who did, favored, and alerted....seriously, would it be a crime to ask people to review the new ones or those that are never been reviewed before? I'm shutting up now cause I'm just ranting. :P

People who read but don't review do make me a little upset sometimes. I'll get a hit on something but no reviews, and it leaves me thinking, why didn't they review? Did they not like it? Why not? Its just a sad feeling. But, its the ones who add stories to their favorites or alert list and don't review that really make me mad. Why aren't you reviewing, if you supposedly like it so much?! Jeez...

Anyhoo, since everyone shared their stats I guess I will too ^^

A Country Girl's Pirate- 131 reviews
A Date- 26 reviews
Catch and Fall- 23 reviews
Demon's Ward- 8 reviews
Destroy My World- 26 reviews
From A Pirate's Viewpoint- 61 reviews
Reflections- 0 reviews
To The Hereafter- 4 reviews
Together- 1 review
Unplanned- 10 reviews
Whitewing- 36 reviews

Overall, I feel that I've done pretty good- hardly anyone knows what Phantom Wizard is so its no wonder I have so little reviews for my PW fics T.T...!

I have had about 800 hits and views for my stories and only 38 reviews over my three stories.

I may sound stupid but where the hell can you see how many hits you have O.o

as for reviews, It used to annoy the shit out of me when I do get faves but no reviews, but recently I care a little less. I've got some faithful reviewers, reviewing each fic the best they can and no ''Good, liked it'' or whatever. So those mean a lot more to me than 20 ''loved it'' reviews:P

Hmmm looks up stats for story My main project (The definition of weakness) Hits: 1256 Reviews: 27. That's 2.1 % of people reviewing. Really depressing.
I almost always review: good, lengthy ones too. With bits like 'this character was dead on, but your plot needs work' and the like. But oddly, it seems a lot of people don't LIKE getting these. I've gotten snippy responses to these reviews. Makes me sad :(

Oh, and Susu, if your on ff.net than you can click on story stats (under traffic) and there will be a column for how many hits you have. If you're on ff.

My main story (it's been going for awhile now) has... over 60k hits and 567 reviews. I have no right to complain, but it is a little irking that, besides hits, I have over 500 people SUBSCRIBED to the fic, and get around 30 reviews per chapter. Most of which say "Good chapter, update soon". The percentage always ends up being >5%, which seems to be the norm with most fics. A lot of people just don't bother reviewing. The clicking and the typing of at least a sentence... "Nah, too hard!" Honestly...

My pride and joy, my South Park series as eternal-lie, has had 10 reviews in the past 2 months of posting:
4 for Death and Drama
4 for Drama never Dies
2 for The Fall of Coon (and one of those was my sister hacking my third account to make me feel better and prove she really was reading it)
And according to FF.net I have had 823 visitors to those four stories, plus another one one I've posted on that account.
I've come to the conclusion South Park Fans are not a chatty bunch.

My Zelda story has more faves than reviews, which I find plain frustrating. I used to get over 400 hits when I updated (not sure how that measures up to others in the Zelda category), and get one or two reviews per chapter.

I wish more people reviewed. I think a lot of readers don't realize just how much it means to writers.

I prefer reviews because they tell me what I'm doing correctly and what isn't working. Unfortunately, it's hard to get very detailed reviews sometimes. :(

A friend of mine told me that just because people don't review doesn't mean they don't read.

It really ticked me off until I checked out my profile page. One story received over 144,000 hits while I got less than 1000 reviews for it. Did it matter any more? Not a chance, because if that many people are willing to read it.... I'm perfectly fine if they don't review.

Although, realisticly reviews are more than welcome and I do reply to every one I get. I also review every story I read whether or not it makes it to my fav list because I do know how it feels.

Getting hits is all well and good, but it always feels so much better in my eyes to get a comment back. It kind of annoys me when a ton of people look at something I made but say nothing. I don't expect every single person to comment. (If they did, I'd get over 1000 for some of my works) But one every now and then is always nice.

I have too admit, I usually don't review a story unless I really love it! I always try and think of my reviews and make them mor ethen a simple "please update" (which I also dislike). I have offered my soul, given cyber cookies, proposed, and given them virtually FF cash.....sometimes those dont work well, but i always keep trying!! My current story "Guardians of Time" (check it out!) Has over 200 reviews and over 1,000 people on my story alert :D

From the 58 stories I currently have posted I have a total of 103 reviews and a grand total of 22,324 hits. It doesn't bother me that i have so few reviews to the ratio of hits since I have 152 favorites. Plus I know when I'm reading a story that I'm really intreaged in I just continue to read till I reach the end. I'm sure many others do that too so they only do one review instead of one every chapter plus when you're really in the story you tend to forget about review.

Yo. I'm Zombie Boy.

I've been on FF.net since February of '04, and I currently have nine stories covering the Ranma 1/2, Kim Possible, Calvin & Hobbes, Fallout, and Family Guy fandoms.

current stories I'm working on:
First Steps: My Ranma epic, currently waiting an update when my muse for that one gets back from her retreat at the sanitarium.

Basic premise of the story: Ranma and Akane grow up. Things proceed to get weird.

Bad Moon Rising: A rongo story, based off of Doppler Effect. Drakken gets lycanthropy and infects Ron and Shego, then he clones Kim and starts causing trouble.

Echoes of Eras Past: The Courier, a woman named Molly who is not as she seems, and Boone partner up to complete their missions of vengeance and in the process change the wasteland.

I'll get a ridiculous amount of hits to a story - then only get like five reviews for every 100-1,000 hits...- but I get alot of favorites I guess, so that kinda makes me feel better about it.

what really pisses me off is this one chick - all she can say is "luv it, update soon, 'kay?"

I want to rip my hair out when i see her reviews

Ah yes those reviews are annoying, I appreciate it, but still.

I like hits, Some fics of mine get quite a lot, but I must admit I am quite the review junkie. It's like I won't update if I don't get X reviews, but I do lose my motivation when I barely get them.