User blog comment:Owenandheatherfan/Something That Really Irks Me.../@comment-1590625-20110509004953

It seems that nearly everything that I was going to say in this response has already been said, but I still feel the urge to reiterate the above (below?) comments in my own Anonymous wording.

So basically, there is a definite large influx of new users now, and wiki history dictates that this likely results in many of these users attempting to start fics of their own, make preparations, usually crank out a chapter or two, and then disappear off the face of the wiki, weeding out until the few from each generation that become veterans remain.

This phenomenon often coincides with a dry-ish spell in commenting, which has been noted as a current situation that I as well have picked up on. I am fairly certain that this will pass soon-ish and the wiki will return to its usual business, but right now there seems to be a lot on the users' plates in their personal lives if I'm not mistaken (where I come from, the middle schools are doing standardized testing, and the high school has AP exams, which I myself am currently in the midst of), so that may have to do with something.

As for your plea to the readers to give new users a chance: My response to that is simple; all stories and users are new at first, and they take time to gain momentum and popularity. I'm sure that in time, your generation of current newbies will have your time in the spotlight soon enough, but only if you are persistent. In addition, "Don't just keep reading the same stories every day" may not be the best argument, because aside from the occasional one-shot, or massive project uploaded all at once, the majority of works written here are posted incrementally, so many readers will tend to "follow" a story until its finish.

I hope this suffices as far as originality goes, but as said earlier, most of this has already been said in some form or other already.