User blog comment:Mroddy/Quadruple F!/@comment-1874924-20131004212201

Congratulations on a landmark achievement. I don't think anyone has ever won three Features in the same month before, let alone four.

As for TD Frozen's readership and the FS voting, I've often warned people against assuming that few commenters means few readers. When we used to have a page visit counter, I saw that for some stories up to 80% of the people who view the story page don't even look at the talk page, much less leave feedback. As for the sketchy FS votes, it does happen that people sometimes vote strictly on how well they like the author, but what can you do?

There have been times when I've cast votes for FS candidates that I don't read, or that I plan to read but haven't got round to. I normally do this only when two stories are in a tight race. In order to cast a reasonably informed vote, I will read two chapters from each story, usually the intro chapter and a mid-to-late chapter chosen at random.