What are the highst number of comments, views and favorites you've received for a story?

[Erozetta]

I know, right? I mean, look at how few comments "Black Boots" got!

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(Divide by two, because half f them are my replies.)

I have three stories in Fetish.

One has 19 comments, one 17, and one 4. The one with 4 is faux 2nd person pov, lol.

 

[StillStunned]

My "I don't want to talk about AI" thread has 1978 comments (63k views), of which about 230 are mine.

 

[YmaOHyd]

My "I don't want to talk about AI" thread has 1978 comments (63k views), of which about 230 are mine.

That's only because it's a Burn The Bitch story!

 

[StillStunned]

The one with 4 is faux 2nd person pov, lol.

My two real 2P POV stories have 17 and 15 comments. The first one has a couple complaining about 2P, but the other only has positive comments except one saying that the stream of consciousness didn't work for them.

 

[StillStunned]

That's only because it's a Burn The Bitch story!

If the bitch is AI, that's a happy ending we can all get behind!

 

[Erozetta]

My two real 2P POV stories have 17 and 15 comments. The first one has a couple complaining about 2P, but the other only has positive comments except one saying that the stream of consciousness didn't work for them.

I don't think I can do real 2P, It feels too dominant, lol.

 

[Bazzle]

I know, right? I mean, look at how few comments "Black Boots" got!

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(Divide by two, because half f them are my replies.)

But you are a really really really good writer

 

[StillStunned]

I don't think I can do real 2P, It feels too dominant, lol.

I think I managed to avoid that with "Into The Night". It's stream of consciousness, and the "you" gets swept up in the constant barrage of impressions. The few comments that even mentioned 2P said that it was barely even noticeable.

It was exhausting to write, though. One of those things that you try once to see if you can, then move on to other things.

 

[StillStunned]

But you are a really really really good writer

I think I got lucky by deciding to emphasise the boots and put it in Fetish. I was going to put it in SF&F, where it would have been a fairly generic fairy tale, but I leaned into the descriptions of the boots, then made sure to be very specific in the title and tagline.

 

[THBGato]

Love is the Place chpt 1 has my most favourites at 75 (33 comments, 19k views)

What a difference a day makes has most comments at 46 (63 favourites, 9k views)

Eve & Lucy chpt 1 has most views at 21.8k (47 favourites, 41 comments)

All in Lesbian. I'm very chuffed with all of those. Certainly way better a response than I thought I'd get when I started writing.

 

[GemmaGemmaGemma]

T/I
Views - 171.6k
Favs - 284
Comments - 22

Views and favs are for a F/M/d attending the same sex party story, comments are for a snowed in M/s story from the perspective of a third character, the female roommate of the son

Outside T/I
Views - 58.2k
Favs - 69
Comments - 29

Views and comments are for a mature story about a guy and his ex-girlfriend's mum, favs are from a very old story about superman and supergirl smooching - which I just realised is also actually incest, whoops

 

[ChuckWolf]

That'd be Rookie Cop Captured By Whores! with 105 favorites, 69K views and 15 comments, most of which were positive (but the two negative ones were pretty funny).

 

[iwatchus]

This makes me wonder if @8letters or one of our other statistical gurus has ever broken out a ratio of comments to views by category.

It's implied in some of his previous posts. There is as much of a difference in comments or favorites/view by category as there is in raw views.

 

[SamanthaBehgs]

My two real 2P POV stories have 17 and 15 comments. The first one has a couple complaining about 2P, but the other only has positive comments except one saying that the stream of consciousness didn't work for them.

Someone please tell me what's the difference between a "real" 2P POV and @Erozetta 's "Faux" 2P POV? I don't understand what makes one real and the other fake, but I'm trying to do a challenge where I write 2P POV so it's kinda important to me, if you're willing to educate me.

 

[NaughteeDragon]

If Only In My Dreams

117 favorites, 184 comments.

This is why we enter contests.

Add 1 more. Damn, that was good.

 

[Erozetta]

Someone please tell me what's the difference between a "real" 2P POV and @Erozetta 's "Faux" 2P POV? I don't understand what makes one real and the other fake, but I'm trying to do a challenge where I write 2P POV so it's kinda important to me, if you're willing to educate me.

Faux uses 1st person elements. The narrator isn't speaking directly to the reader but to another character within the story using "You" to address them. It's reader adjacent in that the reader can choose to put themselves into the role of the other character or not.

Collars and Cravings is faux 2nd person.

Real 2nd person is choose your own adventure style, speaking directly to the reader and only to the reader. It is very "reader is intimately involved in the story."

 

[RejectReality]

Comments 79 Peppermint Patty
Favorites 1119 Holly Jolley Christmas
Views 583,878 Mom's Stocking Stuffer

All Incest. Although my highest views in this name is actually Anal with Rim Fire. 500k and change. It's also second in comments and favorites with 72 and 855. Stocking Stuffer as Les just beats it on views, as does Mom's Second Chance, also as Les.

 

[SamanthaBehgs]

Faux uses 1st person elements. The narrator isn't speaking directly to the reader but to another character within the story using "You" to address them. It's reader adjacent in that the reader can choose to put themselves into the role of the other character or not.

Collars and Cravings is faux 2nd person.

Real 2nd person is choose your own adventure style, speaking directly to the reader and only to the reader. It is very "reader is intimately involved in the story."

Hmm, okay, then my 750 word story I just wrote is faux kinda? I'm speaking directly to the reader when I say "you" but there's also a first person use of "I" in that. Ack, this is so confusing.

@StillStunned Would you call yours "real" 2nd person? If so, would you link them?

Does anyone else have examples of what they'd consider "real" 2nd person POV stories, bonus points if you'd consider them to be good stories?

 

[YmaOHyd]

Hmm, okay, then my 750 word story I just wrote is faux kinda? I'm speaking directly to the reader when I say "you" but there's also a first person use of "I" in that. Ack, this is so confusing.

@StillStunned Would you call yours "real" 2nd person? If so, would you link them?

Does anyone else have examples of what they'd consider "real" 2nd person POV stories, bonus points if you'd consider them to be good stories?

BreakTheBar's The OF Girl is true second-person. The narrator's pronoun is 'you,' and the story is written as if through the eyes and body of you, the reader. You wake up, you get breakfast, you find yourself in an improbable boobalicious fivesome. You Know You Shouldn't by StillStunned is the same.

Collars and Cravings is addressed to you, and you are present in each scene, but you are being observed through the lens of me. "You come to me and stroke my hair; I lean into your palm." -- compare that to: "You gave the signal, wiggling your finger above the camera, and Sabrina sat up straighter, pulling her shirt closed as she turned and smiled as the waitress came down to the side of the booth."

 

[Candy_Kane54]

Part One of my first story has the most votes (545) and the most favorites (88). Part Five of my first story has the most comments (29). It's been all downhill since ...

 

[SamanthaBehgs]

BreakTheBar's The OF Girl is true second-person. The narrator's pronoun is 'you,' and the story is written as if through the eyes and body of you, the reader. You wake up, you get breakfast, you find yourself in an improbable boobalicious fivesome. You Know You Shouldn't by StillStunned is the same.

Collars and Cravings is addressed to you, and you are present in each scene, but you are being observed through the lens of me. "You come to me and stroke my hair; I lean into your palm." -- compare that to: "You gave the signal, wiggling your finger above the camera, and Sabrina sat up straighter, pulling her shirt closed as she turned and smiled as the waitress came down to the side of the booth."

This is the best sort of homework ever. Time to get reading.

 

[lovecraft68]

 

[MelissaBaby]

Well deserved, it's an excellent story!

Thank you.

 

[MelissaBaby]

Add 1 more. Damn, that was good.

Wow. Thanks. I should quit fucking around and get another Christmas story written.

 

[Actingup]

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Yeah well, those stats are just fucking ridiculous, aren't they .

The order changes a lot for me if I sort variously on views, comments, or favorites, but one story stays on top (unless I sort by rating, because LW). EDIT - I put the sorted by Views and sorted by Rating lists next to each other - there is only one story in common between them!