About the Top of the Top Lists

[MelissaBaby]

I don't know where this list list is. I've seen the most popular list, with a dozen variations of "mommy riding on my lap'. (Why is this the #1 male fantasy? I guess Freud was on the money.) I also never see my stories get more than a couple hundred votes even though they may have thousands of views. [And another thread woke me to the fact that a lot of 'views' are not a lot of 'reads'. I would assume 'favorites' would mean they read it and liked it. But my guess is that people also favorite something (or bookmark/list: why are their two ways of saving a title?) when a boss or spouse or kid comes in the room and they want to get back to reading the story later.]

Click Story Top Lists on the main story page. You'll see the page below. Click on "Stories" under "Reader Voting," that will take you to the list of the 250 highest rated stories for the whole site. You can see the list for all-time, past year and past 30 days. The links in the lower section will show you the listings by category.

 

[Djmac1031]

If I've ever been on any "Top List' I'm unaware of it and never noticed any real changes in ratings or readers.

Odds are I've probably never made that high on any particular list.

 

[MelissaBaby]

If I've ever been on any "Top List' I'm unaware of it and never noticed any real changes in ratings or readers.

Odds are I've probably never made that high on any particular list.

If you ever wonder if you are on a ratings top list or not, match your score against the lowest list on the category list and see if your score is above it.

 

[SimonDoom]

My own perspective on my ratings is that I want each new story to have a score above my average. I see that as at least some measure of whether or not I have maintained or improved the quality of my writing.

I have totally abandoned this as a goal. I have a pretty good idea how to write a story that would get a high score, like well over 4.7. If you are a decent enough writer and you know Literotica well, you can do this. But I choose to write stories that I'm pretty sure will get nowhere near that. I've written a bunch of 750 word stories, and none of them have a score of 4.5. I've written Loving Wives stories that score below 4, but they get lots of readers and feedback and they were enjoyable to write.

My view is, it's liberating to give up attachment to high scores. It means so little. Among my 64 published stories, I have three "W's." It's nice, but I don't think those stories are better than my others. They don't get more views; they don't get more readers; they don't get more favorites. I get no more personal enjoyment from having written them than from writing the others.

 

[MelissaBaby]

If I've ever been on any "Top List' I'm unaware of it and never noticed any real changes in ratings or readers.

Odds are I've probably never made that high on any particular list.

How many votes does The Great Todd Everman Experiment have? If it was eligible (100 votes) it would be in the top twenty in Reviews and Essays.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

Top of anything is nothing I have to be concerned with.

 

[Djmac1031]

If you ever wonder if you are on a ratings top list or not, match your score against the lowest list on the category list and see if your score is above it.

in all honesty, ive hardly ever checked any of those lists. I see people mention them from time to time, and of course the drama surrounding being in them / being knocked off them.

I dont have a massive following. I don't often write in the Most Popular categories.

My stories do well, I get nice ratings on most, a decent amount of comments and kind feedback.

Id love for one of my stories to become successful enough to be on some All Time List or whatever, sure. I even have several I feel deserve it more than some I see in those lists.

But im not losing sleep over it. It's just the way this place is.

 

[Djmac1031]

How many votes does The Great Todd Everman Experiment have? If it was eligible (100 votes) it would be in the top twenty in Reviews and Essays.

23

my audience isn't that big and most didnt care to read it.

 

[MelissaBaby]

I have totally abandoned this as a goal. I have a pretty good idea how to write a story that would get a high score, like well over 4.7. If you are a decent enough writer and you know Literotica well, you can do this. But I choose to write stories that I'm pretty sure will get nowhere near that. I've written a bunch of 750 word stories, and none of them have a score of 4.5. I've written Loving Wives stories that score below 4, but they get lots of readers and feedback and they were enjoyable to write.

My view is, it's liberating to give up attachment to high scores. It means so little. Among my 64 published stories, I have three "W's." It's nice, but I don't think those stories are better than my others. They don't get more views; they don't get more readers; they don't get more favorites. I get no more personal enjoyment from having written them than from writing the others.

That's sensible. My situation is somewhat different, because my opus is much more homogenous than yours.

 

[SimonDoom]

That's sensible. My situation is somewhat different, because my opus is much more homogenous than yours.

I get that, and if that's how you want it for artistic reasons, that's fine, but don't let your artistic purposes be limited in any way by the pursuit of high scores. That would be a waste of your talent.

 

[TheLobster]

But I choose to write stories that I'm pretty sure will get nowhere near that.

It's perfectly fine to choose not to be on top. There's plenty of other, equally satisfying positions

 

[Djmac1031]

I have totally abandoned this as a goal. I have a pretty good idea how to write a story that would get a high score, like well over 4.7. If you are a decent enough writer and you know Literotica well, you can do this. But I choose to write stories that I'm pretty sure will get nowhere near that. I've written a bunch of 750 word stories, and none of them have a score of 4.5. I've written Loving Wives stories that score below 4, but they get lots of readers and feedback and they were enjoyable to write.

My view is, it's liberating to give up attachment to high scores. It means so little. Among my 64 published stories, I have three "W's." It's nice, but I don't think those stories are better than my others. They don't get more views; they don't get more readers; they don't get more favorites. I get no more personal enjoyment from having written them than from writing the others.

I wrote a "Mom & Son fuck in the backseat of a car " story as a joke under the pseudonym Todd Everman, a fictional LE author i wrote about in my story Pornville.

Mom's Backseat Boy wound up being my most widely viewed/ read story EVER.

340K views. 4.67/ 4384

its blown away everything ive ever written under the DJ name in terms of views and votes and its not even close.

If I wanted to, I could write those stories all day, every day. And I've already proven I could be highly successful at it.

Its just not what I choose to write, at least on any regular basis.

 

[LargoKitt]

Click Story Top Lists on the main story page. You'll see the page below. Click on "Stories" under "Reader Voting," that will take you to the list of the 250 highest rated stories for the whole site. You can see the list for all-time, past year and past 30 days. The links in the lower section will show you the listings by category.

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I found it under Explore/Popular/Reader voting/Stories. There is no Top Lists on the main page, just the Explore tab at the top. Curiously, the main Explore Literotica menu in the middle of the page has no 'Popular' link although clicking "Top Stories & Audio" leads to a second larger list of links that includes "Story Top Lists". Now that they are revamping the web page after killing all our art they could stand to get a first class web designer to 'rationalize' it and make sure the same UI is on all devices.

 

[MelissaBaby]

I get that, and if that's how you want it for artistic reasons, that's fine, but don't let your artistic purposes be limited in any way by the pursuit of high scores. That would be a waste of your talent.

I appreciate that, but to be clear, my perspective on scores is that I see my personal standard of success by that metric is to maintain my average or improve it. That doesn't mean it's my only standard of judging success.

 

[MelissaBaby]

I found it under Explore/Popular/Reader voting/Stories. There is no Top Lists on the main page, just the Explore tab at the top.

It might be a device/browser thing. You don't have this on the main story page?

 

[SimonDoom]

It's perfectly fine to choose not to be on top. There's plenty of other, equally satisfying positions

I choose to define for myself what it means to be on top. That's where I like to be.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

With the whipped cream?

 

[MelissaBaby]

I choose to define for myself what it means to be on top. That's where I like to be.

Simon Dom.

 

[pink_silk_glove]

On top? Pfft. Happiness is being under a cute guy. ; )

 

[SimonDoom]

Simon Dom.

It's got a ring to it.

 

[Bramblethorn]

Simon Dom.

There was a time when I kept getting ads on my phone for some game called "Fishdom" and I don't think the image it evoked was what they were aiming for.

 

[MelissaBaby]

There was a time when I kept getting ads on my phone for some game called "Fishdom" and I don't think the image it evoked was what they were aiming for.

I'm down for it.

 

[Djmac1031]

I'm down for it.

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Me too.

 

[LargoKitt]

It might be a device/browser thing. You don't have this on the main story page?

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Nope. My opening page is white with a (new) picture of a svelte woman in a long gown. "READ NEW SEXY STORIES DAILY PUBLISH YOUR FANTASY above the "Literotica News" and "Explore Literotica" boxes below. "Explore" drop down at very top leads to page you posted, in white. BTW, looks like your avatar posts both on the home page and the forum. Mine's only on the story half of the website. FYI, I'm browsing on an Apple laptop. Curioser and curiouser.

 

[LargoKitt]

I wrote a "Mom & Son fuck in the backseat of a car " story as a joke under the pseudonym Todd Everman, a fictional LE author i wrote about in my story Pornville.

Mom's Backseat Boy wound up being my most widely viewed/ read story EVER.

340K views. 4.67/ 4384

its blown away everything ive ever written under the DJ name in terms of views and votes and its not even close.

If I wanted to, I could write those stories all day, every day. And I've already proven I could be highly successful at it.

Its just not what I choose to write, at least on any regular basis.

Yeah, the way to 'gross readership' and clickitude seems to be to choose one of the few, mostly taboo fetishes: Dad's, moms, sisters, butts aand monsters. Don't worry about making the fucking pretty. Get to it pretty quick with little hesitation. Make it mostly about the guy's yaya's. I challenge myself to write stories with real people and plausible reasons why they might hook up. I'd really like to know that a bunch of women are getting off on reading it. 'Not doing it...yet' can be the sexiest thing to write.