A weird thing about posting a story and no one comments, it's like it's gone into the ether, and you have no idea if it actually exists outside of your own view of it.

Mmm, and I've been thinking about that lately . . .

I mean, both FFnet and Ficwad provide hit counters now. They tell you how many times people've smacked those links. So . . .

You get this warped perspective: You wind up with fanfic with over a hundred page views but zero comments (and, in the case of Ficward, no rating to speak of either). It feels like hopping the fast-track to a novel sort of psychological complex. I think the state of ether and apathy was better in some ways.