Mastered_again
Another Wordy Bitch
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- Feb 9, 2022
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Play nice, kidsYou don't seem to mind.
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Play nice, kidsYou don't seem to mind.
I hate seeing downright bullying behaviour. If someone comes into this board looking for support, there's just no excuse for being an arsehole about it. Treating someone's genuine issue as an opportunity to be a twat waffle for their own amusement says more about that person and their prickly personality than it does about the original issue.
Said twat waffle's (valid) point is that a story retains its quality and value in spite of downvoting. Well, duh, statement of the bleeding obvious. Their are far less caustic ways of making that mediocre observation, but hey. If being cruel gets them off who are we to judge?
I'd like you to find examples to support this assessment of my reaction to anything said anywhere in this thread, by you or anyone else.She didn't like the truth so she started pissing on the messenger.
That isn't an example of either me not liking the truth or pissing on the messenger.Back at ya.
That doesn't follow. A View is someone who has clicked into your story, but you can't assume they've read it.I'm new here, but have read posts about the elusive "H" and how much it can boost your story. I've had it pop up briefly on a few of my stories now and then, but for the most part after a week or so my stories all sit at around 4.1 - 4.3. And, the way I look at that is - that means 80% of the people who have read it, liked it. 4 in every 5! How amazing is that!
People are people are people. In any collection of them, there are going to be jerks. No way around that. That's why any decent system should have fairly effective ways of mitigating the damage that jerks will do. So...yeah, they're right. It's the system that's faulty.The system's okay. It's the people using it that are the problem .
You probably think this post is about you, don't you? Don't youuuu?!Sooo, if I didn't name you, flower, how can you be certain I meant you?
More accurately, a view is a page load. Every time the story page loads in a web browser, it counts as a view. If you refreshed the story page 100 times, your view count will go up by 100.A View is someone who has clicked into your story, but you can't assume they've read it.
More accurately, a view is a page load. Every time the story page loads in a web browser, it counts as a view. If you refreshed the story page 100 times, your view count will go up by 100.
View = page load is the only thing you get from that stat.
I'm not saying that you would, or that it's serve any purpose.Well, I guess people can game the views then. Why? Why would anyone do that?
Maybe there's a story in there. Or a contest. Volunteers?I think we need to put electrodes on readers’ nipples and shock them each time they don’t complete a story, or fail to leave a comment.
Having said that, maybe that would actually depress reading and comments. Lit has some strange people.
Em
You could be right .Maybe there's a story in there. Or a contest. Volunteers?
Some people pay extra for that.I think we need to put electrodes on readers’ nipples and shock them each time they don’t complete a story, or fail to leave a comment.
You've confirmed this to be true? It suggests that a single read of a three page story would count as three views, unless only the first page counts. I had assumed refreshing worked as you mentioned, but also had assumed that bookmarks and internal navigation of page numbers did not tick the view counter, but hadn't really thought about what it would do when refreshing page 3, for example.I'm not saying that you would, or that it's serve any purpose.
I keep a lot of stories open in tabs and when I need to update my browser, reloading those pages registers as a new view.
If you wanted to 'fix' that, there are technical ways to do it. But I doubt that it matters to anyone but the authors.