What went wrong with the succession game thread?

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Originally Posted by Safe-Keeper

On the one hand, there was only one other miner besides myself, but on the other hand, it's got 435 page views so far, so obviously people were paying attention. I'd like to try something like this again, and CaptainHalo has said in the thread he'd like to put something similar together himself (see his note on "Minecraft novellas").

So, what's your thoughts? Anyone want to tell me what you thought of the thread? The style of narration (screenshots+captions)? Why you decided not to sign up? Your experience following us as lurkers? What you'd like to see in future threads?

I know it's not strictly speaking the same thing, but I ask these same questions every time I see one of my AAR threads has hundreds of views and only about 3 people have commented it, even after it's ready. After the Fallout AAR I was sure I had done something completely wrong. Just no idea what, because I didn't make a thread like this.

I have learned to shrug and deal with it. If the threads are gathering regular views, then I simply assume people are reading and enjoying. That's what I'm aiming for, and hoping they will say if they don't like something. Still, I can't help considering the running Oblivion AAR one of my most succesful ones, not because I myself would consider it somehow the best or funniest, but because it has gathered most comments and from many different people. It encourages me into certain direction with my future projects.

As for the Minecraft thread, my answer is simple, if not very helpful: I don't play the game, haven't actually ever tested it, and so I wasn't going to sign up in the first place. Still, I have some minor interest towards it through Subsim, and therefore clicked the thread to see what it was all about. My curious click still counts as one view as much as that of the hypothetical person who wanted something and didn't find it in the thread. It's the problem of such statistic that it makes no difference.