LJ vs. Teaspoon, round two

From what I can gather, it's a generally accepted axiom that people are more likely to leave a comment for a story on LJ than they are to leave reviews on Teaspoon. I've certainly seen that, anyway, and I even made a post about it once.

Well, my latest fanfic posting -- which consisted of chapter four in a WIP -- broke that rule, in a big way. I posted it here on LJ yesterday morning, and it went thump. Silence. Crickets chirping. Of course, me being me, I immediately got worried. Does it completely suck? Have I embarrassed myself forever? I did consider that the huge gap between now and when the previous chapter was posted (*cough* four and a half months ago *cough*) meant that, quite understandably, people were no longer interested, but that didn't stop me from jumping to the "it sucked" explanation. I then wondered if I should go forward with posting the chapter on Teaspoon, but I re-read it and, well, I still liked it. So I posted it, and it got validated late last night, and as of right now the chapter has three reviews. Which for Teaspoon is very respectable, especially considering it hasn't been up for 24 hours yet.

So now I'm left wondering why there's such a huge discrepancy between the LJ reaction and the Teaspoon reaction. Because I can't help wondering about things like that. Anyone with ideas or insight, feel free to help me guess.

(And by the way, this is NOT NOT NOT a backhanded request for people to leave reviews for the fic here on LJ. I would hate to feel that anyone reading this starts to feel obligated, coerced or harassed into giving me reviews. There is no requirement to read any of my fic in order to read my other journal posts, or to be on my flist, and there's, like, a negative infinity requirement to actually like my fic. I'm just, you know, curious, and posting about my curiosity. Hopefully that all goes without saying, but sometimes it's good to explicitly say it anyway.)

ETA: When I posted this I had 0 comments on the fic, but that's now changed, so whew! Still a better reaction from Teaspoon, though. I think it's just a slow week on LJ.

LJ vs. Teaspoon, round two

From what I can gather, it's a generally accepted axiom that people are more likely to leave a comment for a story on LJ than they are to leave reviews on Teaspoon. I've certainly seen that, anyway, and I even made a post about it once.

Well, my latest fanfic posting -- which consisted of chapter four in a WIP -- broke that rule, in a big way. I posted it here on LJ yesterday morning, and it went thump. Silence. Crickets chirping. Of course, me being me, I immediately got worried. Does it completely suck? Have I embarrassed myself forever? I did consider that the huge gap between now and when the previous chapter was posted (*cough* four and a half months ago *cough*) meant that, quite understandably, people were no longer interested, but that didn't stop me from jumping to the "it sucked" explanation. I then wondered if I should go forward with posting the chapter on Teaspoon, but I re-read it and, well, I still liked it. So I posted it, and it got validated late last night, and as of right now the chapter has three reviews. Which for Teaspoon is very respectable, especially considering it hasn't been up for 24 hours yet.

So now I'm left wondering why there's such a huge discrepancy between the LJ reaction and the Teaspoon reaction. Because I can't help wondering about things like that. Anyone with ideas or insight, feel free to help me guess.

(And by the way, this is NOT NOT NOT a backhanded request for people to leave reviews for the fic here on LJ. I would hate to feel that anyone reading this starts to feel obligated, coerced or harassed into giving me reviews. There is no requirement to read any of my fic in order to read my other journal posts, or to be on my flist, and there's, like, a negative infinity requirement to actually like my fic. I'm just, you know, curious, and posting about my curiosity. Hopefully that all goes without saying, but sometimes it's good to explicitly say it anyway.)

ETA: When I posted this I had 0 comments on the fic, but that's now changed, so whew! Still a better reaction from Teaspoon, though. I think it's just a slow week on LJ.