User blog comment:Ben109/Purpose? Can you help?/@comment-1874924-20100828012038

I feel your pain, to some degree, regarding lack of feedback. The fact is, though, that only a small fraction of readers leave comments, and only 20-40% of readers even look at the talk page.

For example, my Courtney story has exactly 3 comments by 2 readers, although the visit counter (until it stopped working about 3 weeks ago) showed that it was averaging 20+ views with each new chapter, which I consider pretty decent for a short noncompetition story. Likewise, my TDI-G&S crossover seems to have about a dozen regular readers, but its talk page was dead for months.

Another phenomenon I have encountered, especially with Legacy, is that some people comment on my User talk page, rather than on the story's talk page.