User blog comment:ToaFairon/Important - READ IT/@comment-1081342-20110722160830/@comment-1788742-20110723021224

Thanks for the compliment on TEG! And I totally agree with you, Ids. There are plenty of good, decent, or moderately good stories on here to satisfy almost any BIONICLE fan. Also, I plan to finish my stories. I don't want them ignored, nor, do I think, does anyone. This needs to change.

That's not to say it's only happening to me. While I enjoy getting feedback for stories, even critical feedback, I've noticed everyone's stories are getting few/no comments. Without any critical feedback for anything, and if everyone's so busy with blogs and such, this site will probably fall even further from where we are today.

Again, I'm not just saying this for me, it's for everyone's works. It's really encouraging to newer users to get comments on their stories, and without your support on TEG last summer, I doubt I would have ever finished it. As Toa Roden said on Slice's blog, many people read stories, the problem is getting reviews. Even if the NRC's waiting list is long, that's no reason every user can do a short review or comment for all the stories on the Latest Stories Main Page section.

I know that a lot of users want to socialize, and discuss MOCs on the blog space, or implement Chat, but the fact is, we cannot afford to imitate Facebook or Twitter. We are simply not that type of website, and we cannot continue ignoring stories.

Think about it: If I was writing TEG right now, and was just starting, would I have finished it if I had zero comments on the talk? Now there are plenty of stories far better then TEG, that are virtually ignored. If the community is the first fundamental part of CBW, and MOCs are the second, stories are the third. And without comments on stories, nobody will write. And without writing, our site will have descended into a below-average chat site, about as far as humanly possible from the fanon counterpart to BS01 I considered it when I joined.