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Question of the day part 6
Carter-Orange:
--- Quote from: Sakabelle on August 13, 2012, 10:50:31 PM ---Asked this on twitter and Mare said it'd be good here!
So, do you guys think that stories with a banner get read more than a story without a banner? I know for me personally, I never make banners for my one-shots, and they still get read. But I'm wondering what you guys have experienced?
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I never make them for my one-shots, with the exception of the one challenge where we had to make one. I usually make them for my other stories though, just because I think of them as a book cover.
I don't decide to read a story because of a banner though. I read the summary to decide if it's something I'll like. The banner is just something pretty to look at :)
When I'm deciding on a book from Amazon, I do read reviews because I'm parting with money, lol. With fanfic, it's free so I don't need to read the reviews first as if I don't like it, I can just click out.
Rose:
I read reviews if I'm buying a book. Cause honestly you're parting with money. With fanfic? No. That and usually not many people give concrit. People will rave about stories that I can't see the appeal in at all LOL, like that Oreos story. So even if I did read fanfic reviews, it wouldn't do me any good!
mare:
--- Quote from: Rose on August 13, 2012, 11:24:35 PM ---I wouldn't be able to do that challenge anytime soon :P. I'm determined to finish my current novellas before going into something new LOL.
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The best part of this challenge is how simple it is! All you have to do, is go to a story you are currently working on, hit edit, go to the summary, highlight the banner and press delete! Yay!!!! :) lol life should be that simple for everyone.
mare:
I will only read reviews before clicking in a story if I'm on the fence about it. Sometimes by just seeing who is reviewing kind of gives me an idea if I might like it, for example if I see it's someone who has the same taste I do. Otherwise I usually don't check out the reviews.
Like everyone else said, I do with books but usually I'll go by people's recs over what a review says anyway.
Sakabelle:
I don't usually read reviews on a story I'm not reading or one that I'm on the fence about reading. I actually will more often read other reviews of a story I'm really caught up in and love, because I want to see if the other reviewers had the same thoughts as I did about chapters and stuff. I also like reading them because the author's reponses sometimes have interesting little tidbits to other readers that they may not have mentioned to me because it never came up.
I have another question.
If you tried reading something by an author, and it wasn't good, would that deter you from reading something of theirs in the future? Would you be less likely to try something from that author if something you read before from them ended up not being to your taste, even if the plotline of a different story from them looked interesting to you?
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