Ratings by category

[GoldenMaia]

I have read a lot about how ratings differ between categories. With some time on my hands, I decided to have a look. The method was to copy and paste from the category list into an Excel sheet with some custom formulae to parse each entry. FWIW, writing the functions took the longest

Taking the first 750 titles from each of the categories below, the average scores were as follows:

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Anecdotally, I was expecting Loving Wives to be the lowest, but Group Sex is significantly lower than the others.

Does anybody have a good way to download stats from the site?

This is cool!
I'm surprised Romance gets the tag so high in the ratings. But not shocking there aren't as many stories.

I'm curious about I/T - I imagine that's a LOT more stories and a lot higher ratings.

 

[Writer61]

This is cool!
I'm surprised Romance gets the tag so high in the ratings. But not shocking there aren't as many stories.

I'm curious about I/T - I imagine that's a LOT more stories and a lot higher ratings.

I selected these categories because they are the ones I am considering or writing in. LW does not interest me, but I added it because of its reputation. For the same reason, adding I/T to the mix makes sense.

Watch this space.

 

[NotWise]

I selected these categories because they are the ones I am considering or writing in. LW does not interest me, but I added it because of its reputation. For the same reason, adding I/T to the mix makes sense.

Watch this space.

Because of it's very large readership, I/T (now T/I, I guess) should be about average for everything but views.

 

[Gamblnluck]

Anecdotally, I was expecting Loving Wives to be the lowest, but Group Sex is significantly lower than the others.

You obviously didn't look at LW lately. There were few stories that even approached a 4 this week. Dismal reading.
How did you collect your data?

 

[Writer61]

How did you collect your data?

As I said, I took the first 750 titles from each category.

 

[Gamblnluck]

As I said, I took the first 750 titles from each category.

Yeah, I found that later in the thread. The stories beginning with A historically. So it would span a multitude of years where readership may have changed drastically. Still a lot of work. I wondered how the first column played a part. The K threw me off. I thought that was number of stories sampled not in the category.

 

[Writer61]

Added in T/I, 75 titles per letter (except X, which did not have enough):


No significant difference.

 

[lovecraft68]

Because of it's very large readership, I/T (now T/I, I guess) should be about average for everything but views.

I'd say its in the middle. The readership isn't to critical, but they're not easiest to please.

That would be romance.

I'm slowly backing up because I'm certainly not giving anyone my back after that one.

Jokes aside what none of these things factor in is that whatever the category there are authors who have built large bases and will do better than the average, so whenever I see these it doesn't mean anything. The median score in X is not a specific author's median score and that's what we should care about, how we're received.

If someone is basing what they write on what scores better based on graphs like this then that's sad. Write whatever, wherever and make it yours.

 

[Writer61]

If someone is basing what they write on what scores better based on graphs like this then that's sad. Write whatever, wherever and make it yours.

Indeed. The reason I did the initial analysis is that I am plotting a story that could fit into two or three different categories, and wondered whether one might be better than another.

 

[lovecraft68]

Indeed. The reason I did the initial analysis is that I am plotting a story that could fit into two or three different categories, and wondered whether one might be better than another.

Better off describing the story and asking here than going by a graph.

Lot of factors to what's the best place to put a story. Some categories have damn sub factions of factions.

 

[pink_silk_glove]

Indeed. The reason I did the initial analysis is that I am plotting a story that could fit into two or three different categories, and wondered whether one might be better than another.

Whenever I have a story that could go into more than one category, I also carefully figure which category would be better. However I do not base my choice on the reaction that it might get in one category or another, only on which category will get more traffic/eyeballs.

 

[Mandlovu]

Back at the end of August 2024, I posted some data to /r/literotica/comments/1elvz3i/
It was a crosstab of story count by category and score.
I can run an update, but there will probably not be much difference.