Is it possible to see who has added you to their Recommended Authors list?

[GeorgeGlass]

I swear this is not a left-handed brag: My number of recommendations has risen so quickly in the past 2 weeks that I’m wondering if some (or all) of those recommendations came from bots. Is there a way to see who has recommended me?

[Desiderius Price]

I’ve got zero recommendations & two “current reading” in mine; so guess the bots like you!

[BronxWench]

I’ve never found a way to see who’s recommended my stories. I can see which stories got a recommendation, and how many, but the identity of the member is unknown.

I don’t know if non-members, which would include bots, can recommend a story. The next time I’m not logged in, I’ll try it and see if I can do it.

[GeorgeGlass]

Just to be clear, I’m talking about people adding authors to their Recommended Authors list; I’m not talking about recommendations of individual stories.

[BronxWench]

Ah, I can’t see that either… You can look at my profile and see who I’ve recommended, but I can’t tell who’s recommended me.

 

[JayDee]

Hey, so a bit random but while just messing around trying to get back into my archive account I saw there’s now the most recommended authors listed on the members page (I don't remember it before!) sadly it doesn’t say who has George recommended, but I couldn’t help but go “Wow” at the numbers there. After George at number one, the most recommended authors at 2-5 only just have more recs combined than George does on his own! A very popular author, it seems, I for one am hoping to find time to read that Zootopia fic. I do like me some rabbit cop. And it would surely be nice to read a Zootopia fanwork that doesn’t leave me thinking Arby’s. Well, unless it does. I assume she gets the meat at any rate. 

The page I was stumbled on with the list:

https://members.adult-fanfiction.org/

(-does everyone else see that table at the top? Wasn’t sure if it was just showing because of how I reached it or something. “Top 50 Recommended Authors”?)

And back on topic slightly, I think a google search using a search string like this in bold would bring up most of the recommended authors pages with your username on it, probably missing some, but worth a shot if you then had time to click through them all to see! I’m sure they can’t all be Jan Brady’s alt accounts 😛

site:members.adult-fanfiction.org "recommended authors" "GeorgeGlass"

 

[BronxWench]

That’s a feature on the Site > Members menu, showing the top 50 recommended authors, and should be available to anyone from the archive home page. (Just click on the three little bars, and you’ll see the submenus.) It’s a fun little Easter egg, I think!

 

[GeorgeGlass]

19 hours ago, JayDee said:

And back on topic slightly, I think a google search using a search string like this in bold would bring up most of the recommended authors pages with your username on it, probably missing some, but worth a shot if you then had time to click through them all to see! I’m sure they can’t all be Jan Brady’s alt accounts 😛

site:members.adult-fanfiction.org "recommended authors" "GeorgeGlass"

OMG that works! It pulls up both “Recommended Authors” and “Recommended Reading” lists, but that’s great because it creates a vast pool of other authors and stories I might like to check out. Thank you!

I’m not sure about the alt account thing, though. Jan has a lot of time on her hands these days.

Edited yesterday at 01:56 PM by GeorgeGlass

[JayDee]

No problem at all! I didn’t think about the Reading one, but it makes sense it’d come up same way. Google has been come increasingly, well, less than great, but it’s nice to see some of the old search string modifiers pulling through in 2025.

BronxWench – It’s a really neat little feature for the site! Yeah, I probably clicked through just as you indicated above to find it, but couldn’t actually remember when I came to post, heh. I may be getting old. 

Edited yesterday at 04:34 PM by JayDee

[BronxWench]

1 hour ago, JayDee said:

No problem at all! I didn’t think about the Reading one, but it makes sense it’d come up same way. Google has been come increasingly, well, less than great, but it’s nice to see some of the old search string modifiers pulling through in 2025.

BronxWench – It’s a really neat little feature for the site! Yeah, I probably clicked through just as you indicated above to find it, but couldn’t actually remember when I came to post, heh. I may be getting old. 

I’m pretty sure I’m getting old, but I’m in denial.

 

[Desiderius Price]

I’m still at zero recommendations, so no need to reverse-see who’s signed up.

[Deadman]

I have wondered something similar in the past. Sometimes it feels good to know who likes you.

[manta2g]

It’s not there yet, right now we are in the process of doing a site wide code upgrade. A link to the development beta will be available to members near the end of December.

[Deadman]

13 minutes ago, manta2g said:

It’s not there yet, right now we are in the process of doing a site wide code upgrade. A link to the development beta will be available to members near the end of December.

Oh, I didn’t realize this was actually on the table as a possibility. Good to know. I’m liking the upgrades you’re making so far.

[JayDee]

21 hours ago, Desiderius Price said:

I’m still at zero recommendations, so no need to reverse-see who’s signed up.

This made me think about how many authors I’d recommended. I mean, there’s been a few writers I’ve really enjoyed over the years, so I went and looked. Zero! Zilch! Nada! Sweet Fanny Adams! The square root of fuck all! My “recommended authors” page has less names than the 2025 member’s list at the Harvey Weinstein appreciation society. 

No idea why I never engaged with the author recommending feature, considering I was at least vaguely active on the archive for a while there. At least I apparently recommended a few indvidual stories over the years on the recommended reading page. Stuck a story link or two in my forum sig.

I suppose one way to look at is an author as regularly active and established as George only ended up with 150 odd recs out of all those users slamming the view count up on every story, and in a related point otherwise engaged/active users like me just never even used the feature, not receiving receving a rec doesn’t really mean anything bad.