It can’t be that often. I just went through the Notes on HPMoR.com (which seem to be incomplete) and C-f for ‘review’, and nowhere since February 2012 does Eliezer ask for reviews (he remonstrates demanding reviews, mentions total review count, talks about reviewing his plans, etc.)
Author’s Notes for Ch. 18, ‘Dominance Hierarchies’:
Warning: Potential spoilers ahead if you have not read up to Ch. 18.
Two months. Over three thousand reviews. What can I possibly say, besides thank you?
Still, My Immortal had over eleven thousand reviews. You wouldn’t want people to think that fic was better than this one, right?
Sorry about the pace slowing down. I started this fic partially to prove to myself that I could still write thousands of words per day, so long as I was doing something easier than the rationality book I was bogging down on. Now I’ve started pair writing (that means there’s someone else next to me while I write the book) and my productivity has gone way up, but that in turn means I don’t have as much free writing energy. But this is still fun, and the future chapters I have planned are too good not to write, so don’t go worrying just yet. And hey, still updating pretty damn fast in an absolute sense. Oh, and not to be even more of a review whore or anything, but that thing where you write reviews begging the author to update? It totally works on me. (Coughs.)
Emphasis mine. That is the only instance of anything like that in the notes I saved, though; the only other thing that turned up that I think might have skewed it was the bit where he talked a few times about how HPMOR was the X most reviewed HP fic/fic on ff.net/etc.
I don’t know if that worked but if that was the only instance of asking for reviews, I don’t think it did much of anything. Here’s the 7-days-filtered reviews for ch16-23:
155 199 [199] 159 209 133 125 142
So ch18 had the same number as the previous ch17, then with ch19 it dropped, ch20 was higher than 17⁄18, but then ch21-22 dropped even further. If there’s any effect from asking for reviews, I’m not seeing it in the filtered reviews.
Oh, and not to be even more of a review whore or anything, but that thing where you write reviews begging the author to update? It totally works on me. (Coughs.)
I started reading too late to catch most notes of this sort by EY (and I often skip Author’s Notes anyway), but from personal real-time observation of other fanfics it seems to be a tremendous help for authors to beg for reviews, in any and all senses of “begging”. Asking for stuff is good, and holding updates hostage for the price of reviews is even better (assuming there actually are any readers). Giving public thanks to reviewers also works.
I can’t remember how often Eliezer mentioned how important getting reviews was for him, but I wonder if that correlates with more reviews.
It can’t be that often. I just went through the Notes on HPMoR.com (which seem to be incomplete) and C-f for ‘review’, and nowhere since February 2012 does Eliezer ask for reviews (he remonstrates demanding reviews, mentions total review count, talks about reviewing his plans, etc.)
Emphasis mine. That is the only instance of anything like that in the notes I saved, though; the only other thing that turned up that I think might have skewed it was the bit where he talked a few times about how HPMOR was the X most reviewed HP fic/fic on ff.net/etc.
I don’t know if that worked but if that was the only instance of asking for reviews, I don’t think it did much of anything. Here’s the 7-days-filtered reviews for ch16-23:
So ch18 had the same number as the previous ch17, then with ch19 it dropped, ch20 was higher than 17⁄18, but then ch21-22 dropped even further. If there’s any effect from asking for reviews, I’m not seeing it in the filtered reviews.
Heh, but I guess that stopped working...
I started reading too late to catch most notes of this sort by EY (and I often skip Author’s Notes anyway), but from personal real-time observation of other fanfics it seems to be a tremendous help for authors to beg for reviews, in any and all senses of “begging”. Asking for stuff is good, and holding updates hostage for the price of reviews is even better (assuming there actually are any readers). Giving public thanks to reviewers also works.