lovecraft68
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Haven't posted in awhile and don't really plan on being 'back' but felt this was important enough to mention. Something seems to have drastically changed on lit and its not for the better.
There is a huge drop off in views and votes on not just my last two stories, but some other authors I have spoken to and just by looking around I can see it.
On Wednesday I posted a new mother/son story. Incest is my best category and the sites best category. Mother/son is the top draw there. My view total three days later? 36k...on a mother/son story that is a damn joke.
13 comments, 400 votes 51 favs. those numbers are very low considering my body of work here. IN fact a first time author with an incest story can(or at least before this week) could get that or better
Then I thought okay, Wednesday not the best day, I used 'mother' not mom in the title...description maybe not the hottest and as someone suggested to me its a chapter one. That, and hey, I could have just laid an egg, shit happens.
But yesterday I had two other authors who had stories post this week say their numbers, especially views, were way the hell down.
Today my contest entry posted. In mature. Mature is my second biggest draw, they do for me....how well? Every one this year has over 1k votes and 50-over 100k views.
Today's story so far as I type this....is barely over 7k views three comments(2 from dedicated trolls).and 97 votes(the last forty of which have come in the last two hours)
Before I go further understand that every day on the most popular author lists in the category hubs I am consistently #1-3 on the daily/7 day/ 30 day lists for both incest and mature.
This is today #1 on both for today
https://www.literotica.com/c/taboo-sex-stories
https://www.literotica.com/c/mature-sex
I only say this to make the point that those two categories are my wheel house and I have large fan bases in each. In other words the numbers I gave are beyond a joke and that's not butthurt ego, that's a fact easily proven by prior submissions
Last Mature story Milf Tails She's so shy 7/8/15 1085 votes 58905 views
Last incest story Mom likes porn too 7/24 1878 votes 132,961 views
now yes they are a few weeks old, but as everyone knows at least 70% of those numbers come in the first handful of days and even that number is well beyond what I saw this week.
Thinking maybe my story might not be visible for some reason I looked for it and I am the first story listed in the mature hub and was the third story listed on the new story list-I have since moved down as some new ones were added, but I am not buried
But fact is as of 1pm I had as close to optimal placement as I could be.
Yet all the numbers are horrible, these last two stories are lower than the first stories I ever posted in those categories and by far. score is okay, but the views are the number that sticks out.
I looked at Mature...DG hear is very popular here. Now i cannot see his views and his vote total of a little over 200 isn't bad, but I still think low for him. But he has only 6 comments and 8 favs....far below what he would normally get
The next mature story is also a contest entry Patientlee has only about 30 votes and 2 comments. Granted she doesn't have the following DG hear or I do, but she's been writing here long enough to have more than two comments and a fav in fact she has a contest winner in mature.
Check for yourselves look at the vote totals...well below norm and scores seem low as well
https://www.literotica.com/c/taboo-sex-stories (only Biscuit hammer seems to be doing very well)
https://www.literotica.com/c/mature-sex DG hear only author over 200 votes the next closest is 193 and that story is 2 days old.
Look at first time
https://www.literotica.com/c/first-time-sex-stories not just votes, look at scores, this is normally not an abusive category.
Even loving wives....seems the sharks have lost their way...only two sauthors Richard gerald and Laptopwriter(and this is his forte) have good numbers, especially note the low number of comments on all but those two stories....this is loving wives
https://www.literotica.com/c/loving-wives
Not looking any further I think those four prove my point.
MY first thought was maybe lit just installed an 'upgrade' that was more of a down grade, that they had done something internally, but as I pointed out my placement could not have been better today which leads me to think that Lack of comments, lack of votes and again-and most telling- views means perhaps lit itself is not being 'seen' as much, either its down to a portion of the population or the gateway/pathway may not be working...but whatever it is, there seems to be a fraction of the traffic, today especially.
There is a huge drop off in views and votes on not just my last two stories, but some other authors I have spoken to and just by looking around I can see it.
On Wednesday I posted a new mother/son story. Incest is my best category and the sites best category. Mother/son is the top draw there. My view total three days later? 36k...on a mother/son story that is a damn joke.
13 comments, 400 votes 51 favs. those numbers are very low considering my body of work here. IN fact a first time author with an incest story can(or at least before this week) could get that or better
Then I thought okay, Wednesday not the best day, I used 'mother' not mom in the title...description maybe not the hottest and as someone suggested to me its a chapter one. That, and hey, I could have just laid an egg, shit happens.
But yesterday I had two other authors who had stories post this week say their numbers, especially views, were way the hell down.
Today my contest entry posted. In mature. Mature is my second biggest draw, they do for me....how well? Every one this year has over 1k votes and 50-over 100k views.
Today's story so far as I type this....is barely over 7k views three comments(2 from dedicated trolls).and 97 votes(the last forty of which have come in the last two hours)
Before I go further understand that every day on the most popular author lists in the category hubs I am consistently #1-3 on the daily/7 day/ 30 day lists for both incest and mature.
This is today #1 on both for today
https://www.literotica.com/c/taboo-sex-stories
https://www.literotica.com/c/mature-sex
I only say this to make the point that those two categories are my wheel house and I have large fan bases in each. In other words the numbers I gave are beyond a joke and that's not butthurt ego, that's a fact easily proven by prior submissions
Last Mature story Milf Tails She's so shy 7/8/15 1085 votes 58905 views
Last incest story Mom likes porn too 7/24 1878 votes 132,961 views
now yes they are a few weeks old, but as everyone knows at least 70% of those numbers come in the first handful of days and even that number is well beyond what I saw this week.
Thinking maybe my story might not be visible for some reason I looked for it and I am the first story listed in the mature hub and was the third story listed on the new story list-I have since moved down as some new ones were added, but I am not buried
But fact is as of 1pm I had as close to optimal placement as I could be.
Yet all the numbers are horrible, these last two stories are lower than the first stories I ever posted in those categories and by far. score is okay, but the views are the number that sticks out.
I looked at Mature...DG hear is very popular here. Now i cannot see his views and his vote total of a little over 200 isn't bad, but I still think low for him. But he has only 6 comments and 8 favs....far below what he would normally get
The next mature story is also a contest entry Patientlee has only about 30 votes and 2 comments. Granted she doesn't have the following DG hear or I do, but she's been writing here long enough to have more than two comments and a fav in fact she has a contest winner in mature.
Check for yourselves look at the vote totals...well below norm and scores seem low as well
https://www.literotica.com/c/taboo-sex-stories (only Biscuit hammer seems to be doing very well)
https://www.literotica.com/c/mature-sex DG hear only author over 200 votes the next closest is 193 and that story is 2 days old.
Look at first time
https://www.literotica.com/c/first-time-sex-stories not just votes, look at scores, this is normally not an abusive category.
Even loving wives....seems the sharks have lost their way...only two sauthors Richard gerald and Laptopwriter(and this is his forte) have good numbers, especially note the low number of comments on all but those two stories....this is loving wives
https://www.literotica.com/c/loving-wives
Not looking any further I think those four prove my point.
MY first thought was maybe lit just installed an 'upgrade' that was more of a down grade, that they had done something internally, but as I pointed out my placement could not have been better today which leads me to think that Lack of comments, lack of votes and again-and most telling- views means perhaps lit itself is not being 'seen' as much, either its down to a portion of the population or the gateway/pathway may not be working...but whatever it is, there seems to be a fraction of the traffic, today especially.
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