yukonnights
Literotica Guru
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My advice to readers would be to leave a comment. What it says doesn't matter. I just enjoy getting comments and want more of them.
Comments are both useful and not very useful. One person's very short opinion doesn't tell me much, but lots of different short opinions might tell me something.
The only comments I leave now days are thanks to the writer for sharing an enjoyable story.
This is pretty much where I'm at too. I'm not convinced the Comment option at the end of stories is really suitable for constructive critique. If I'm going to try to do that, I'd need to do it as I read the piece, and give examples in order to make such critique useful. But to try this on the Comment screen would seem silly to me. To me, the place for critique is in Story Feedback or in private between author/editor/beta-helper. On Comments, I follow Bambi's mother's rule
On another thought; It seems to me that a much more valuable 'view count' would be based on the number of unique hits on the last page of a story than the first. That would probably be a much more accurate count of reads. The number of 'reads' and the 'rating' would then provide much more important information than the 1-comment per1000-views—which seems a common description of the the rarity of comments.