I measure community with two interlinked gauges. The first is the interaction between readers. When your readers argue, joke (even flame) each other they ensure that your blook/blog isn’t about you anymore - it’s about them. But we have to remember that reader-reader interaction is an inconsistent metric - there will be months where the discussions and arguments will be plentiful, and there will be months when nobody’s posting. This is normal, though entirely unhelpful - if you think community equals activity then you’re going to get one hell of a headache trying to cultivate a constantly high level of it.

The second gauge is interlinked with the first, and can be summarized with a few simple questions: do your readers talk about your site and the community of people around it? If so, what do they say? And how often do they do it? These questions touch on the intangible quality of ‘we’ness - the integral core of any group.

from Novelr

This is sort of a "YES YES THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I WANT!!!" moment here XD

There is literally a whole world of serial fiction writers and creators out there that I never knew existed @_@ It\'s been pretty freaky finding them all! This was an interesting article, starting this month we\'re going to be working on the community for fluffy-seme AGGRESSIVELY. I refuse to be defeated! XD XD XD