Here's a question...I'm sure I asked it before but it needs to come up again.
Why do you feel certain stories are talked about a lot/are popular? I mean we've all seen people come up with different theories. The "oh only people in a clique get noticed" or "people do nothing but brown nose when they mention stories instead of ones they like" or "it's because I write slash no one notices what else I write", etc. So what do you think?
I think a lot of it has to do with how well written it is. I know for me, I'm not going to rave about a story unless I really loved it. Hell half the stories I rave about aren't even posted here, the writers aren't even around anymore LOL. A story is popular based on three things: genre, quality of writing, and what boy it features. Which is more important varies. Romance is huge but there's romances that go ignored here. Quality of writing can get a usually ignored genre noticed but there's plenty of amazing stories that fly under the radar. What Boy it features though is usually a given though. A Nick story will always get noticed more than a Howie story LOL.
It's not that complicated, to me anyway.