Curious about poems posted

[Tx Tall Tales]

I'm new to this side of Literotica. When I hit the forums, it's usually over in the Author's hangout.

I submitted three poems for the Survivor Contest. I also submitted three stories. The poems showed up day before yesterday, the stories still haven't. Is it usual that poems get posted very quickly?

Also, my 2 non-erotic poems received about 75 views so far, and my erotic-poem got around 200 views. The non-erotic have 6 votes each, and the erotic has 10 votes. Are these common numbers? I have no idea, and am probably spoiled by the stories, which typically get several thousand views the first day. Honestly, with 4000 people favoriting my work, I expected at least a few more.

I'm just curious - the only comment I got was from twelveoone, who thought it unusual that I got 10 votes with no comments. On the stories side, about 5,000 to 1 is the common ratio. Except for Loving Wives which can be all over the map.

How about sharing a little about what to expect in the poetry area?

I'm curious, and have to admit, in the past dozen years, I only posted one other poem, and it got a total of 36 votes to date, and two comments in its first 3 days. It didn't break a 4.0 for about 5 years. Three more comments in the next 7 years, two from regular fans of my work.

Thanks.

 

[bronzeage]

Poems tend to appear much quicker than a story. I'm sure there is some technical reason for this, but I have no idea what it might be.

You have stumbled across poetry's dirty little secret. Poems are only read by other poets. Imagine if Tom Clancy's newest book were read only by Stephen King, Clive Cussler, and J.K. Rowling.

If there is any sense to be made from the statistics of reads, favorites, comments and votes, I have yet to see it.

 

[Tx Tall Tales]

Poems tend to appear much quicker than a story. I'm sure there is some technical reason for this, but I have no idea what it might be.

You have stumbled across poetry's dirty little secret. Poems are only read by other poets. Imagine if Tom Clancy's newest book were read only by Stephen King, Clive Cussler, and J.K. Rowling.

If there is any sense to be made from the statistics of reads, favorites, comments and votes, I have yet to see it.

So this is where you've moved. I remember you over in the Author's hangout for years. Thanks for the info.

 

[bronzeage]

So this is where you've moved. I remember you over in the Author's hangout for years. Thanks for the info.

You are welcome. I've never been hard to find.

 

[butters]

I'm new to this side of Literotica. When I hit the forums, it's usually over in the Author's hangout.

I submitted three poems for the Survivor Contest. I also submitted three stories. The poems showed up day before yesterday, the stories still haven't. Is it usual that poems get posted very quickly?

Also, my 2 non-erotic poems received about 75 views so far, and my erotic-poem got around 200 views. The non-erotic have 6 votes each, and the erotic has 10 votes. Are these common numbers? I have no idea, and am probably spoiled by the stories, which typically get several thousand views the first day. Honestly, with 4000 people favoriting my work, I expected at least a few more.

I'm just curious - the only comment I got was from twelveoone, who thought it unusual that I got 10 votes with no comments. On the stories side, about 5,000 to 1 is the common ratio. Except for Loving Wives which can be all over the map.

How about sharing a little about what to expect in the poetry area?

I'm curious, and have to admit, in the past dozen years, I only posted one other poem, and it got a total of 36 votes to date, and two comments in its first 3 days. It didn't break a 4.0 for about 5 years. Three more comments in the next 7 years, two from regular fans of my work.

Thanks.

welcome to the Poetry forum, TX

there's a reason stories get a lot more views than poetry: wankers. and i mean that in the kindest possible way. you're not asking the audience to engage beyond that level. poetry's a little different. right now, if you're just getting votes and no comments, it's likely some of your fan-base following you to see what you're writing. nothing wrong with that.

to be honest, the numbers/votes/views don't have such a bearing here - it's all about good feedback, possible improvements, what does or doesn't work for a reader and why. in other words, the reader's asked to think and contribute with a different kind of seminal.

also: it's rewarding in its own way to spend time reading and commenting on other people's writes rather than just expect others to spend their own precious time on yours/our own. best wishes for your continued writing endeavours,

butters

 

[Desejo]

welcome to the Poetry forum, TX

there's a reason stories get a lot more views than poetry: wankers. and i mean that in the kindest possible way.

Hmm. Perhaps "Poems to wank to" is challenge material!

 

[Neonurotic]

@Tx, you're welcome to bring your readership to the poetry side of the house!

Hmm. Perhaps "Poems to wank to" is challenge material!

That is a challenge. I know only a handful erotic poems here on Literotica that truly move the moose...I mean the muse...er, that could be one in the same.

 

[Tx Tall Tales]

Thanks for the welcome. The more I read over here, the more I'm convinced I've dropped into a different world.

On the prose side, most authors don't comment on each other's work, at least not negatively. It tends to attract trolls, and then you've got some nameless twit chasing after you, writing inane comments and voting you down. I know several of the anonymii who slam my stories are fellow authors who post their comments anonymously. They've told me so in their emails.

From what I've read, most of the comments here are signed. That's good, you can see a consistency, and compare your work to others, and to those critiquing you. It doesn't seem to detract from receiving honest opinions from the few dozen I've read so far. I guess I need to start commenting.

I hadn't really thought much about the different audience, but it's pretty clear by now. The whole comment about the 'wankers' seems dead on. When I did my first audio, it became quickly obvious from the comments and emails that the audio listeners are only in it for its masturbatory value. They desire a time element, and enough time in the 'act' to get off.

In the Loving Wives genre, the revenge story group is the opposite. All they want to see is the cheated on spouse getting even. No sex required. They comment like crazy, even a mediocre story getting 30-40 comments, and many getting over 100 in the first couple of days. Wank factor is around zero.

I think the incest and group sex crowd are purely in it for the dirty. Half those stories have no plot at all and are written at a Jr. High level, and still get Hot scores and 10's of thousands of views.

I'm gonna hang around lurking for a while, and get a feel for this area. Then I'll see if I can't do better with a little time and practice. I freely confess, the erotic poetry I wrote just for the survivor contest. The non-erotic 'poems' are song lyrics I put together for a novel length story that I'll be releasing soon. They are integral to the plot, and are more about a message than any type of lyric quality. I'm going to have to do better over here. People score a lot more harshly (and dare I say, more realistically) then they do in most of the prose categories.

With a little luck, my readers will find their way here. About a dozen of my stories have 500K views or more, a few have over a million. After three days, two of my poems are stuck at under a 100 views. I honestly thought I'd get a few more crossover readers, but I guess we'll have to give them time.

 

[twelveoone]

Thanks for the welcome. The more I read over here, the more I'm convinced I've dropped into a different world.

On the prose side, most authors don't comment on each other's work, at least not negatively. It tends to attract trolls, and then you've got some nameless twit chasing after you, writing inane comments and voting you down. I know several of the anonymii who slam my stories are fellow authors who post their comments anonymously. They've told me so in their emails.

From what I've read, most of the comments here are signed. That's good, you can see a consistency, and compare your work to others, and to those critiquing you. It doesn't seem to detract from receiving honest opinions from the few dozen I've read so far. I guess I need to start commenting.

I hadn't really thought much about the different audience, but it's pretty clear by now. The whole comment about the 'wankers' seems dead on. When I did my first audio, it became quickly obvious from the comments and emails that the audio listeners are only in it for its masturbatory value. They desire a time element, and enough time in the 'act' to get off.

In the Loving Wives genre, the revenge story group is the opposite. All they want to see is the cheated on spouse getting even. No sex required. They comment like crazy, even a mediocre story getting 30-40 comments, and many getting over 100 in the first couple of days. Wank factor is around zero.

I think the incest and group sex crowd are purely in it for the dirty. Half those stories have no plot at all and are written at a Jr. High level, and still get Hot scores and 10's of thousands of views.

I'm gonna hang around lurking for a while, and get a feel for this area. Then I'll see if I can't do better with a little time and practice. I freely confess, the erotic poetry I wrote just for the survivor contest. The non-erotic 'poems' are song lyrics I put together for a novel length story that I'll be releasing soon. They are integral to the plot, and are more about a message than any type of lyric quality. I'm going to have to do better over here. People score a lot more harshly (and dare I say, more realistically) then they do in most of the prose categories.

With a little luck, my readers will find their way here. About a dozen of my stories have 500K views or more, a few have over a million. After three days, two of my poems are stuck at under a 100 views. I honestly thought I'd get a few more crossover readers, but I guess we'll have to give them time.

Not quite totally different.
I have my anon(s) and I have a lot of fun baiting them.
And I guess it is tough to write and comment while wanking, however when the authors come over even with non-wank material, their followers just can't seem to say much. And then some get pissed, if someone does comment. Reading poetry is a pain in the balls, writing it is even harder, why do you want to try? I seriously quit.
Thanks for your response on the comment, I admire that.

 

[bronzeage]

Thanks for the welcome. The more I read over here, the more I'm convinced I've dropped into a different world.

On the prose side, most authors don't comment on each other's work, at least not negatively. It tends to attract trolls, and then you've got some nameless twit chasing after you, writing inane comments and voting you down. I know several of the anonymii who slam my stories are fellow authors who post their comments anonymously. They've told me so in their emails.

From what I've read, most of the comments here are signed. That's good, you can see a consistency, and compare your work to others, and to those critiquing you. It doesn't seem to detract from receiving honest opinions from the few dozen I've read so far. I guess I need to start commenting.

I hadn't really thought much about the different audience, but it's pretty clear by now. The whole comment about the 'wankers' seems dead on. When I did my first audio, it became quickly obvious from the comments and emails that the audio listeners are only in it for its masturbatory value. They desire a time element, and enough time in the 'act' to get off.

In the Loving Wives genre, the revenge story group is the opposite. All they want to see is the cheated on spouse getting even. No sex required. They comment like crazy, even a mediocre story getting 30-40 comments, and many getting over 100 in the first couple of days. Wank factor is around zero.

I think the incest and group sex crowd are purely in it for the dirty. Half those stories have no plot at all and are written at a Jr. High level, and still get Hot scores and 10's of thousands of views.

I'm gonna hang around lurking for a while, and get a feel for this area. Then I'll see if I can't do better with a little time and practice. I freely confess, the erotic poetry I wrote just for the survivor contest. The non-erotic 'poems' are song lyrics I put together for a novel length story that I'll be releasing soon. They are integral to the plot, and are more about a message than any type of lyric quality. I'm going to have to do better over here. People score a lot more harshly (and dare I say, more realistically) then they do in most of the prose categories.

With a little luck, my readers will find their way here. About a dozen of my stories have 500K views or more, a few have over a million. After three days, two of my poems are stuck at under a 100 views. I honestly thought I'd get a few more crossover readers, but I guess we'll have to give them time.

You've discovered poetry's other dirty little secret, which is "poets are different than you and me, and you and me are poets.

In general, there's not a lot of masturbation material in poetry,illustrated poetry excluded. In any case, refer to poetry's dirty little secret #1, which means only poets are masturbating to poetry. It's probably only a coincidence because since they masturbate constantly.

 

[Magnetron]

I don't know if it qualifies as a dirty secret, but page views in forums can accumulate just from search engine bots indexing pages.

And masturbating.

 

[UnderYourSpell]

bots masturbate?

 

[Acktion]

I don't know if it qualifies as a dirty secret, but page views in forums can accumulate just from search engine bots indexing pages.

And masturbating.

Wait... what?

Like Trip T over there (Howdy neighbor), I got lured over to the Poetry side of Lit by my rather foolhardy joining the Survivor contest this year. (Well, and because I had some poetry published about twenty years ago or so and thought I might give it another go. Twenty-eight? )

I was following along pretty well, I think, until this point.

Not quite sure I follow about robots indexing pages. Although, as far as masturbating, I guess if Asimo can dance (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZToSae4QCl0), that probably would be the next logical step (at least according to Baptists).

 

[Tsotha]

"Indexing bots" are the programs Google, Yahoo! and others use to visit and process every page, seeking to index them in their search engines. On Literotica's side, such an access is exactly the same as the one made by an human user, so at least some of the views in any given thread are made by "bots".

 

[UnderYourSpell]

Gives a whole new connotation to hard drive but back in my day it was 3 inch floppies

 

[Tsotha]

Gives a whole new connotation to hard drive but back in my day it was 3 inch floppies

Improvement!

 

[Magnetron]

bots masturbate?

We certainly do.

 

[butters]

his milky sap doth gush
manifold
when he done busts a gasket

 

[UnderYourSpell]

We certainly do.

his milky sap doth gush
manifold
when he done busts a gasket

Doesn't it encourage rust in the cogs?

 

[butters]

Doesn't it encourage rust in the cogs?

^^ a seminal question *nods*

 

[Magnetron]

Doesn't it encourage rust in the cogs?

Perhaps if one's ball bearings are accustomed to the cheap grades like Pennzoil.

 

[UnderYourSpell]

Perhaps if one's ball bearings are accustomed to the cheap grades like Pennzoil.

goes to Google Pennzoil.

 

[bronzeage]

goes to Google Pennzoil.

Oil snobbery.