>>76377383Well going into any new platform without your own knowledge base would make it hard to know what the standard is. The fact that we have a general essential reads list is probably a blessing few communities get to boast about.
Back to the sites themselves and the masses that use them, the community votes and numbers might act as a form of "silent engagement" that could possibly stroke a writer's ego in a way that would be a hindrance to their own progress and growth, since if you just get a ton of likes but not any detailed feedback, you might just keep trucking with what you've made. There could also just be a difference in culture, since here we strive to ask for, receive, and apply feedback, where it might not be the default to expect feedback on those sites. There could also be an idea where the platform itself is geared towards readers and not so much the writers.