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

[PennameWombat]

My story Serve and Volley in Anal has my most views (52K), most votes (366) and most Favorites (35). Nothing epically wild.

A Dream of Age and Beauty in Fetish and Chlorine Dreams in First Time are tied for most comments (10). The latter is also the second place story for the other noted statistics, behind Serve and Volley.

As an interesting note in my brain, Scotland's Finest in NonHuman has my lowest Views per Vote ratio (53), which is significantly lower than any of my other stories. But being in NonHuman, its total number of views is relatively low. But the people who do read it seem to quite like it. Which isn't unusual, not quite half of my stories are SF&F, NonHuman and Erotic Horror and all have relatively high ratings (all 'H'). Just lower overall views.

 

[Voboy]

Comments: 44, on a story almost everyone seems to like, in Mature.

Votes: nearly 1.3k, on a contest winner. Most of those were cast AFTER the contest win. It's also my most-viewed. It's in E&V, a highly successful story, one of the rare ones I just knew would hit just after I wrote it. It's my only contest winner that didn't surprise me.

Faves: 219, on the same story that's got all the comments. That one also has over 1.2k votes.

 

[Kelliezgirl]

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.

I'm sure there is, I'd just be curious to see the patterns.
I suspect there might be some that surprise us.

 

[iwatchus]

I'm sure there is, I'd just be curious to see the patterns.
I suspect there might be some that surprise us.

This one has comments and favorites per view on it, by category.

https://forum.literotica.com/thread...on-your-erotica.1635339/page-3#post-101127924

 

[TheWritingGroup]

Comments: 11 for "Wager". (LE: RP is tied for second with 9)
Favorites: 50 for "Liz Enslaved: Rug Pull".
Views: 45.6k for "Liz Enslaved: Rug Pull".

--Annie

 

[Areala-chan]

Crash Into Me wins on all three fronts except views, where it's beaten (only by ~5,000) by a story a year older, but still in the same category (T/I). Of course, it's also had nine years to gather up those numbers, and we know T/I gets eyes like nobody's business, so I don't know how useful that info is for analysis.

If we narrow it down to stuff I published within the last three years, my most recent story, Chasing Cars, wins, having racked up 17,000 views, 46 favorites, and 45 comments (only two of which are from me) in a little over two months. But it also spent a number of days on the category top list shortly after publication, and was part of @lovecraft68's event, so I think luck had a lot to do with it.

 

[Trionyx]

Isn't this to a certain degree time dependent? The longer a story is up, the more views/votes one will get. True, the rate drops off but still, a story after a year will still trickle in views and votes.
A better question or comparison would be how many votes/views does a story get after, say, 4 weeks.

 

[Areala-chan]

Isn't this to a certain degree time dependent? The longer a story is up, the more views/votes one will get. True, the rate drops off but still, a story after a year will still trickle in views and votes.
A better question or comparison would be how many votes/views does a story get after, say, 4 weeks.

Not just time, but also category and following dependent. I don't believe that every follower reads every single story the people they follow post, but somebody like me with a little under 400 followers is going to get more views, on average, in two weeks than someone with only 25 if we both post a story to the same category on the same day, and someone with 3,000 followers is going to blow both of us out of the water.

 

[Statius]

'Miss Vickie'. 31 k views, 50 favorites. 142 votes 4.67 rating

'A Game Of Pool' 28.5 k views 55 favorites 165 votes 4.82 rating

Comments are near non existent. A game of pool in Group sex, Miss Vickie in incest but it shouldn't be. LitE put it there, there is no incest; I requested Group Sex.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Isn't this to a certain degree time dependent? The longer a story is up, the more views/votes one will get. True, the rate drops off but still, a story after a year will still trickle in views and votes.
A better question or comparison would be how many votes/views does a story get after, say, 4 weeks.

Absolutely.

I have a novel length thing which notched up a thousand views on the last chapter, after a year. Five years later, that last chapter has just ticked over 4300 views. Which means it's been read more by readers finding it in my back catalogue, than ever read it on the first release. The first month, if I vaguely recall, maybe 500 views.

 

[nice90sguy]

This thread gives me a twinge of anger, because my most popular and commented story by a wide margin, at around 350k views, is in the Illustrated category, and most of the images are now gone and it's kind of pointless and nonsensical now. One part reads "He took this photo of her:" (blank rectangle) . I think the only reason I havent pulled it is because I have a masochistic streak.

 

[NoTalentHack]

In all three cases, it’s At the End of the Tour.



Outside of LW, it’s A Very Long Engagement in I/T for favorites and views (284 and 91.7K) and Longings from the Past in Mature for comments (93).

 

[StillStunned]

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.

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

The first one I experimented with was You Know You Shouldn’t (warning: T/I). It's a very in-your-face kind of 2P, but I don't think that's the reason why it's only rated 3.97 (a paradoxical combination of highlighting the wrongness of molesting your sleeping mother, and the fact that the molestation doesn't go all the way).

My more recent one is Into The Night, which I wrote for the Born to Run challenge. This is rated much higher, which was a surprise to me. It's difficult reading, because it's more than 7k words of stream of consciousness, but overall I think 2P worked better with this story because it's much more subtle.

The easiest way to spot the difference between faux and real 2P POV is to see whether there's an "I", even if it's only implied. If there is, then that's the narrator, and the story is strictly speaking 1P POV passing as 2P.

 

[UnexpectedLuggage]

My highest number of comments is 9 on More Sisters Less Problems.

Highest views is My Week With Kelly at 42k.

Highest favorites is My Day With Kelly and Noel with 66 favorites.

So fairly spread out, surprisingly.

 

[BobbyBrandt]

I've always assumed I have quite a low number, compared to AH members, but it's cumbersome to actually go out and count. I did today, inspired by a thread about most hateful comment (I have no hateful comments). Here are my stats. Could you tell me your highest numbers for a story?

Highest counts
Comments: 5 (numbers show higher on the story side because early on I tended to reply. Didn't realize no one would see them.)
Views: 13.4
Favorites: 9

Over what period of time?

My first story published here was published 11 years ago. It has 164K views, 3523 votes, 92 comments, and 444 favorites.

In comparison, my most recent story from earlier this year has 11K views, 322 votes, 24 comments, and 21 favorites.

Whether its number will be close to my first in 11 years is anyone's guess.

Then there is always an outlier:

 

[Lifestyle66]

I have one story I won't count with my greatest number of comments at 115. But it's a follow-on story ending of another author's work.

Of my own original stories, "What Were You Thinking?" has 99 comments, 129.5K views, and 78 favorites, which is my highest in all three areas. It also has 1,564 votes for its average rating of 3.36!.

Its in Loving Wives, which means I hit the "sweet spot" of irritation among the haters!

 

[AG31]

This one has comments and favorites per view on it, by category.

https://forum.literotica.com/thread...on-your-erotica.1635339/page-3#post-101127924

Thanks for this.
Given the really high number of views and comments some AH authors have reported here, the averages suggest that an awful lot of stories hardly get seen at all.

 

[8letters]

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.

Or favorites to views by category.

That might be a better indicator of how good a story is than the actual rating.
If a particularly high % of people favorited it, that should tell you something.

This deserves a long answer, but I'm busy this week. Sorry.

 

[Kelliezgirl]

This deserves a long answer, but I'm busy this week. Sorry.

No worries, I appreciate all the data mining you do for us.

 

[Areala-chan]

Thanks for this.
Given the really high number of views and comments some AH authors have reported here, the averages suggest that an awful lot of stories hardly get seen at all.

More stories competing for your eyes get published here every single day. It's no different in real life: most published books struggle to sell a thousand copies. The outliers are where the author has built a juggernaut following over years or decades of work, or the publisher has put the power of its marketing machine behind them, or a work has been singled out in the media by Oprah, Jenna, Reese, or BookTok/BookTube.

Here, people either find your stuff, or they don't.

 

[bmeyem8]

I have one story I won't count with my greatest number of comments at 115. But it's a follow-on story ending of another author's work.

Of my own original stories, "What Were You Thinking?" has 99 comments, 129.5K views, and 78 favorites, which is my highest in all three areas. It also has 1,564 votes for its average rating of 3.36!.

Its in Loving Wives, which means I hit the "sweet spot" of irritation among the haters!

I like that you you mentioned the 3.36 rating. It seems low compared to the 4.00 +++ most stories receive, but in LW, specifically in cheater/infidelity stories the readers are adamant RAAC or BTB: direct opposites. It's like publishing a story that is either pro-life or pro-choice. You are going to upset one of the factions. And your average star score will reflect that.

 

[Kelliezgirl]

More stories competing for your eyes get published here every single day. It's no different in real life: most published books struggle to sell a thousand copies. The outliers are where the author has built a juggernaut following over years or decades of work, or the publisher has put the power of its marketing machine behind them, or a work has been singled out in the media by Oprah, Jenna, Reese, or BookTok/BookTube.

Here, people either find your stuff, or they don't.

We need LitTube.

We can get some of the cam girls to discuss their favorite works.

 

[Rob_Royale]

Mama's Beach House has the most comments and views which are 69 and 113,800 respectively, in the Mature category. It's also my very first story and thus has been available the longest. I'm very happy it still gets plenty of views and people seem to like it.
Aunt Tina, Recovering Slut Pt.1 has the most favorites at 173 and in the taboo/incest category, that's no surprise.

 

[TheLobster]

We need LitTube.

We can get some of the cam girls to discuss their favorite works.

Considering what you can find in some of the so-called romantasy novels, it wouldn’t be a big stretch for content creators who cater to that audience to start branching in our direction.

 

[Kelliezgirl]

Considering what you can find in some of the so-called romantasy novels, it wouldn’t be a big stretch for content creators who cater to that audience to start branching in our direction.

Some of my stories are decidedly less explicit than some of the romantasy novels.

More plausible too...