User blog comment:Laweennya/Unknown pastas/@comment-24918243-20140716201556

I think there is a difference between no one reading and no one leaving comments. Case in point, I had a pasta that I wrote recently that had absolutely no comments. Back when chat was up, I asked some people to give it a look and found out, much to my surprise that not only had people read it, but some had even added it to their list of favorites. While I was very proud to be on those lists, I still felt very frustrated to go back to my story and see there was not one single little comment by anyone there, including those who liked it enough to include it on their list of favorites.

Bottom line is, because of the way this site is set up, the only real obvious way you know someone read your pasta is if they leave a comment. (or in a worse case scenario if it got deleted :b )

So here is my plea to the whole community in general: Comment the stories that you read! Leave a comment saying you thought the story was good, bad or just meh, but let the author know that his story was read.