What makes you click on a story in a promo thread?

@HGohwell HgOhwell
Tue, 06 Oct 2020 21:38:54 +0000

@HGohwell wrote:

Besides whether it seems interesting and the cover/banner/summary, how much I trust the creator is a big deal. Those threads get over run so quickly, but if it's a person I already know and trust, I'm more likely to take the plunge, sometimes even if it doesn't seem like my cup of tea. How someone presents themselves on the forum is pretty important to me. If someone has turned up and just spammed the promo threads within 5 minutes and doesn't interact in any other way, I'm unlikely to click. If you're someone who's around giving advice, interacting, presenting yourself well, I'm more likely to trust you. And some stories I've subbed to even if they didn't seem like my thing, because I'd seen the creator on the forums and they seemed to know what they were talking about and we had similar tastes, so I trusted they could put together a decent story even if it wasn't what I'd think I'd like and I surprised myself (that was a mess of a sentence, I hope that made sense).