That's a big list

[SimonDoom]

I just had nearly my entire catalog of stories, maybe the entire catalog (I didn't count) added to a reader's favorites list or "to be read first" list. His "to be read first" list has over 18,000 stories. Now, that is an avid Literotica reader. And that's just the stories to be read FIRST. The second list has over 7,000. That's close to 5% of all Literotica stories.

I'm still not quite sure how the new favorites/to be read/curated lists system dovetails with the statistics we get. When I received notifications on my Activity page, everything shows up as "favorites," but since there are duplicates it looks like some of the "favorites" are favorite favorites and some are additions to "to be read" or perhaps other lists. I don't know if the curated lists factor into the stats.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I just had nearly my entire catalog of stories, maybe the entire catalog (I didn't count) added to a reader's favorites list or "to be read first" list. His "to be read first" list has over 18,000 stories. Now, that is an avid Literotica reader. And that's just the stories to be read FIRST. The second list has over 7,000. That's close to 5% of all Literotica stories.

I'm still not quite sure how the new favorites/to be read/curated lists system dovetails with the statistics we get. When I received notifications on my Activity page, everything shows up as "favorites," but since there are duplicates it looks like some of the "favorites" are favorite favorites and some are additions to "to be read" or perhaps other lists. I don't know if the curated lists factor into the stats.

Bodie_Solo?

He's faved my entire story catalogue three times now, over the last year.

I asked why, but got no response. It's weird behaviour, makes no sense to me whatsoever.

 

[SimonDoom]

Bodie_Solo?

He's faved my entire story catalogue three times now, over the last year.

I asked why, but got no response. It's weird behaviour, makes no sense to me whatsoever.

That's the one.

It seems a tad . . . obsessive. There's literally no point at all to spending one's time to create a list of 18,000 stories. Even if you read each one in ten minutes, that's 180,000 minutes. 3,000 hours. That's 125 consecutive days of doing nothing but reading stories at a clip of one story per 10 minutes. And that's before pausing and then getting started with list 2.

 

[onehitwanda]

Maybe he's a test account used to load-test the system...

 

[Cagivagurl]

Maybe he's an Alien from another planet sent to research human behaviour...They think literotica is real....
He thinks he's collating details of human life...
He now thinks all humans fuck their Mothers....

Could be our saving grace...

Reporting back to their superiors...
They reply...
"Hardly worth invading. They'll kill themselves off anyway."

Maybe...

Cagivagurl

 

[SimonDoom]

Maybe he's an Alien from another planet sent to research human behaviour...They think literotica is real....
He thinks he's collating details of human life...
He now thinks all humans fuck their Mothers....

Could be our saving grace...

Reporting back to their superiors...
They reply...
"Hardly worth invading. They'll kill themselves off anyway."

Maybe...

Cagivagurl

Maybe.

He's got a long "about" description and says he's from Cheshire, UK. Should we worry about the Cheshireans and their plans for us?

 

[lovecraft68]

I've had a bunch of people do this. My home page goes pages long with new notifications because someone is faving/bookmarking everything.

My thought is why don't they just fav an author and then you can click on their page and the story list is there, why go through all this work?

I suppose its great for our stats, but its also a bit meaningless if they're just hitting everything and if they're doing it for me I know they're doing the same for others.

I do tie it in to the looking for a story folks, the people who somehow read a story a month ago and can't remember the title, but it was such a great story? Maybe they're afraid of losing a good story so they save every story.

 

[TheWritingGroup]

My buddy once said to me that if they want the rating algorithm to work, you would weight it for different factors. Longevity (up to say, a year) would add weight to a user's votes. Also rarity--if a person rates only one out of 100 stories, that would also add weight. I'm sure we can all think of other factors.

Similarly, I think if someone is "favoriting" thousands of stories, more than they can ever read, it should be in a different category from someone who favorites maybe one story a week (and is therefore probably actually reading them).

Then again, who cares about my opinion?

--Annie

 

[SimonDoom]

I have my own version of slightly OCD and perhaps slightly ADHD favoriting where I'll open a series of stories to read in new tabs in my browser, and then I keep the tabs open for a long time with the idea, "Well, maybe I'll read it soon." Then the tabs get out of control and I'm forced to concede reality and just close out the whole damn browser window and start over.

 

[lovecraft68]

My buddy once said to me that if they want the rating algorithm to work, you would weight it for different factors. Longevity (up to say, a year) would add weight to a user's votes. Also rarity--if a person rates only one out of 100 stories, that would also add weight. I'm sure we can all think of other factors.

Similarly, I think if someone is "favoriting" thousands of stories, more than they can ever read, it should be in a different category from someone who favorites maybe one story a week (and is therefore probably actually reading them).

Then again, who cares about my opinion?

--Annie

I only have a handful of favorites and people I follow. I don't read much here and I don't believe in faving something just to do it or help someone out cheerleader fashion.

I'll stress this has nothing to do with being discerning, just not much time to read or desire to for different reasons.

I've had two reactions to this.

I once had someone send me a crappy feedback saying "You're following five people and you think people should follow you?"

Then I've had someone reach out and say "You faved my story, thank you, it means so much from you!"

Neither have any real merit as far as I'm concerned but I suppose I can see both points.

 

[Cagivagurl]

Maybe.

He's got a long "about" description and says he's from Cheshire, UK. Should we worry about the Cheshireans and their plans for us?

Not sure you can believe anything included in a Literotica Bio....They're probably from Uranus. Or some other intoxicating planert.

 

[Britva415]

Bodie_Solo?

He's faved my entire story catalogue three times now, over the last year.

I asked why, but got no response. It's weird behaviour, makes no sense to me whatsoever.

I wonder if it's a bot, that's how senseless the behavior seems to be.

He favorited the same story of mine 100 times in 20 days once.

 

[Britva415]

Maybe he's a test account used to load-test the system...

Now that I think about it, the time when it was fav'ing my same story over and over was roughly around the time, probably before, when the New Lists(R) Feature was rolled out. I'm sure there was some testing happening, why not automated testing.

 

[MrPixel]

Maybe he's a test account used to load-test the system...

I would suggest "test account" is about right. There might be something about the "favorites" list that makes it easier to process for bots and scraping site contents for building things like AI databases. That "they" have favorited so many in a short time tells me there's a script at play here.

Thinking on it... I'm leaning towards the AI scraping scenario. Anthropic (huge AI firm) just got their hands slapped to the tune of $1.5 billion for stealing mainstream literature. So a publicly-available literature site with a large database of works that also doesn't have the means to defend its authors is an easy target, no lawyers necessary.

Just musing.

 

[NotWise]

Bodie_Solo's bio explains what he's doing and why. He isn't your run-of-the-mill Lit reader, and he's been around since early in Lit history. He's shown up on my activity page a couple times, and I think he added my whole catalog to one list or another each time.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

Sounds like a scraper bot.

 

[NotWise]

Sounds like a scraper bot.

Not my first reaction. I don't think a scraper bot would build a 23-year backstory in its bio. I doubt it would need to link to stories multiple times, and it probably wouldn't need to use Lit's curated lists to do its work.

 

[alohadave]

I have my own version of slightly OCD and perhaps slightly ADHD favoriting where I'll open a series of stories to read in new tabs in my browser, and then I keep the tabs open for a long time with the idea, "Well, maybe I'll read it soon." Then the tabs get out of control and I'm forced to concede reality and just close out the whole damn browser window and start over.

I do this with the new stories list. I have to prune out the tab list periodically. My logic is that if I click past a story for a few weeks, I'm unlikely to ever actually read it, and close them out.