commenting on past fic -- to do or not to do, that is the question?

[sealie]

so the comment thing on past fic is an interesting affair. I posted the latest ‘Uhane H5O TS fusion, and I got a few comments on it (which is awesome), and a bunch of new and/or repeat readers (based on numbers and increase in the number of kudos) on all the other stories in the series, and all my other stories including the out-there stuff. But only one person has commented on the old stories.

Why not comment on an "old" fic?

Comments

[ratcreature]

I have no idea. I dislike outright "choose your own adventure" type gimmicks authors sometimes do for plot twists, but I have seen points raised in comments that made an author cosider something in the worldbuilding or motivation that they hadn't before. So it can have more subtle effects.

I actually don't care much about the impact, for me it is more that the serial model gives an easy way to talk about something in a casual way, that doesn't demand from you to "properly" review a finished thing. I think it is similar to how weekly series generate more conversation than series Netflix releases all at once. It's not just the time factor.