Oh, damn, I must have missed your non-SPN recs post in all this stupid craptastic sickness. I will go back and look for it (and bless you for making one).
I was being facetious, too, but I think that didn't come across very well -- I do really think that if I ever was in a white-hot fandom for a change, it would mean a much larger audience base and thus probably statistically more feedback, but since that's never been the case since back when I first started out, I honestly don't have any stats to compare with. I think the quantity thing for a lot of us was made worse by things like LJ (I've talked about this before, i think, but I can't remember which posts) -- you see how crazy people go for other vids, other fandoms, other vidders, and you find yourself looking at maybe six comments in a huge fandom for a vid you think is pretty good, then you see something similar from Vidder Z with over 100 comments and it's all over your friends list being recced by everyone, so you get this disproprotionate view of what it means.
Back in the olden days before online vid posting, you pretty much had to judge effects by sales or trades of your tape collection and the responses you got at cons, so i think that is why quantity has a larger -- too large -- impact than quality, maybe. It's a psychological thing, totally -- the silence seems more vast, there are only a few voices... I had a lot of trouble recently getting betas for vids, and it kind of combined with lower and lower feedback to make me feel like maybe quantity is some kind of more legit measure, though I'm sure that makes no sense.
I definitely do feel like I'm vidding into a vacuum. If I could, I'd go back to writing, but all I can seem to do these days is vid, but I'm fearing lately that I just am turning out too many vids or something, and thus diluting the interest.
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I was being facetious, too, but I think that didn't come across very well -- I do really think that if I ever was in a white-hot fandom for a change, it would mean a much larger audience base and thus probably statistically more feedback, but since that's never been the case since back when I first started out, I honestly don't have any stats to compare with. I think the quantity thing for a lot of us was made worse by things like LJ (I've talked about this before, i think, but I can't remember which posts) -- you see how crazy people go for other vids, other fandoms, other vidders, and you find yourself looking at maybe six comments in a huge fandom for a vid you think is pretty good, then you see something similar from Vidder Z with over 100 comments and it's all over your friends list being recced by everyone, so you get this disproprotionate view of what it means.
Back in the olden days before online vid posting, you pretty much had to judge effects by sales or trades of your tape collection and the responses you got at cons, so i think that is why quantity has a larger -- too large -- impact than quality, maybe. It's a psychological thing, totally -- the silence seems more vast, there are only a few voices... I had a lot of trouble recently getting betas for vids, and it kind of combined with lower and lower feedback to make me feel like maybe quantity is some kind of more legit measure, though I'm sure that makes no sense.
I definitely do feel like I'm vidding into a vacuum. If I could, I'd go back to writing, but all I can seem to do these days is vid, but I'm fearing lately that I just am turning out too many vids or something, and thus diluting the interest.