While I basically share the feeling, I will counterpoint the above portion of this thread, briefly, as it's horribly late and I MUST sleep;
Guys, lack of feedback sucks indeed, and I know my few points will ring hollow, but they honestly work for me;
- People, even decent folks, being unthinking and basically selfish partly due to modern soud-bite media, simply don't tend to thank people for what they see as 'free content' online. It's a special person that sends an email or makes a post; special to the point of .1%, generally.
- Yep, thats one in a thousand. That's about my response rate, although it depends (one of my stupidest stories EVER on a different site generated tons of feedback).
- What I've done is feed my ego via hit-counts, and stars/favorites/likes etc. as a secondary boost. If a story of mine gets a thousand hits, I feel utterly FAMOUS, even if nobody writes.
- Any response, even one, makes me feel awesome. I dunno... am I too easy to please? Probably.
- I do try to write feedback fairly often, and I think I do so kinda/sorta regularly here, but I certainly do fall behind and because I want to be honest about it, I admit I don't give feedback to stories that I'm uninterested in, even if I read it. But I can always do better

. Look out for new threads of thanks from me this weekend.
- Also, weekends! Never feel gyped about feedback until a full weekend passes with it being on the 'recent added' area. Loads of readers don't check the site, or if they do, just a quick perusal until the weekend. I never expect feedback until after a weekend post posting

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Happy just to be read,
Stefan