Readers numbers.

[topcattopone]

I have asked this question of admin, but they are obviously too busy to tell me at the moment. How much credence can we place in the number of reads that any particular story has attained?

I ask this because the very first story I submitted was rejected, (rightly so, it was very poorly written), yet some how the record shows that it has been read 252 times. I find this very strange as it has never been published!

Anyone on here have a credible explanation?

 

[sr71plt]

I have asked this question of admin, but they are obviously too busy to tell me at the moment. How much credence can we place in the number of reads that any particular story has attained?

I ask this because the very first story I submitted was rejected, (rightly so, it was very poorly written), yet some how the record shows that it has been read 252 times. I find this very strange as it has never been published!

Anyone on here have a credible explanation?

There's a known--but unexplained--computer glitch in the views system. There's nothing anyone has said definitively beyond that, so it would just be spinning wheels to worry about further. And there's no index to "reads" here. "Views" just is an index to the file having been opened--again with no definitively explanation on what that exactly means--so yet something else not to bother worrying about.

 

[CWatson]

"Views" just is an index to the file having been opened--again with no definitively explanation on what that exactly means--so yet something else not to bother worrying about.

SR hit it on the head. If someone clicks your story and reads it all the way through, that counts as a "view". If someone clicks your story, can't stand it, and hits "Back" within 10 seconds, that also counts as a "view". And there's no way to tell what's what.

Long story short: "Views" means little and less. So, really, do the ratings; people have been known to 1-bomb stories they dislike, or 5-bomb stories they think deserve more credit. Feedback left... Well, one comment in five has useful response information, but the other four tends to be stuff like, "Loved it" or "Soooo hot" or perhaps even something less grammatical ("what is this i dont even").

So the best way to appraise your own stories is this: "Did I tell the story I set out to tell? Did I accomplish what I was trying to accomplish?" Because it's the only critique you can really get concrete feedback on.

And a last thought on your phantom views: Perhaps site mods trying to decide what to do with the story? *shrug*

 

[topcattopone]

Thanks for the replies guys, I didn't know there was a glitch in the views figures. I was aware that if some one clicked on and off the story in ten seconds it counted just as much as someone who tokk an hour to read the story.

I was mystified by getting so many views for an unpiublished story though! All is now explained.

Thanks again.