I will never understand why readers do this.

[lovecraft68]

Not a thread about feedback or voting or comments. Simply something that always make me scratch my head or wonder if I am missing something.

I just had someone favorite 30 of my stories. Mostly chapters of a long series.

Now correct me if I'm wrong, but to do that you have to click my page, click my story, then go to the last page to fav. Then repeat and repeat and repeat. Doing that to 30 stories is a lot of time and effort.

Why the hell not just fav me as an author with one step, have my whole library there then boot me when you're done?

Over time I've seen this a lot.

I just don't get it.

 

[Paul_Chance]

I think it's something the social media world is inadvertently training people to do. Some of the algorithms provide a ranking based on "like" or "favorite" counts - so people trying to support their favorites, or people trying to boost their own rankings, fly through and favorite everything.

 

[Ezrollin]

Not a thread about feedback or voting or comments. Simply something that always make me scratch my head or wonder if I am missing something.

I just had someone favorite 30 of my stories. Mostly chapters of a long series.

Now correct me if I'm wrong, but to do that you have to click my page, click my story, then go to the last page to fav. Then repeat and repeat and repeat. Doing that to 30 stories is a lot of time and effort.

Why the hell not just fav me as an author with one step, have my whole library there then boot me when you're done?

Over time I've seen this a lot.

I just don't get it.

Maybe someone that doesn't really understand how the system works. I usually vote and leave a comment but just one story at a time.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

Not a thread about feedback or voting or comments. Simply something that always make me scratch my head or wonder if I am missing something.

I just had someone favorite 30 of my stories. Mostly chapters of a long series.

Now correct me if I'm wrong, but to do that you have to click my page, click my story, then go to the last page to fav. Then repeat and repeat and repeat. Doing that to 30 stories is a lot of time and effort.

Why the hell not just fav me as an author with one step, have my whole library there then boot me when you're done?

Over time I've seen this a lot.

I just don't get it.

For the same reason Milton Erickson MD was grown before he realized dictionaries are alphabetized. He started on page one every time he looked up a word.

 

[Skowt]

Might be BOTS just scanning and so on. (or you have a very happy fan).

 

[Kantarii]

I wish there was a way to see everyone I was on as their favorite author's list. I guess it would make sense to write them down as I seen them favorite me. I think it would be cool to connect with all the people that favorited me and find out what the loved so much about what I wrote, or if they just liked a pretty faceKant.

 

[EverLux]

I wish there was a way to see everyone I was on as their favorite author's list. I guess it would make sense to write them down as I seen them favorite me. I think it would be cool to connect with all the people that favorited me and find out what the loved so much about what I wrote, or if they just liked a pretty faceKant.

You'd constantly be updating that spreadsheet when people unfavorite you for who-knows-what reason. And then adding them again. Fickle little readers...
But I agree that it'd be a great way to pick the brains of people who favorited but didn't comment or send feedback. If they reply, that is. I did this with two readers recently, and I haven't heard back from either one. lol

Can't it be your writing and your pretty face? That's why I put my pic on my alt account's bio page -- cum for the story, stay for the legs.

 

[Kantarii]

You'd constantly be updating that spreadsheet when people unfavorite you for who-knows-what reason. And then adding them again. Fickle little readers...
But I agree that it'd be a great way to pick the brains of people who favorited but didn't comment or send feedback. If they reply, that is. I did this with two readers recently, and I haven't heard back from either one. lol

Can't it be your writing and your pretty face? That's why I put my pic on my alt account's bio page -- cum for the story, stay for the legs.

Don't mind me.... I was just going off into space with my wishful thinking and unrealistic expectations. They get the better of me on the eve of Friday with a looming weekend ahead

 

[TxRad]

Or it could be the next mass plagiarist loading up.

 

[Haulover]

...I guess it would make sense to write them down as I seen them favorite me...

How / where do you see who has 'favorited' you? (I'm a newbie, and haven't found that feature yet.)

 

[ElectricBlue]

Something similar - a reader methodically faves first six chapters of my EH yarn, I think, oh he's bookmarking and liking it as he goes along. Then he gets to chapter six (which turns dark real fast and, as I discovered, really freaks out the EH "crowd" who can't handle a touch of father/son action); next thing I see is all six chapters un-faved. OK, I thought, another reader couldn't get past that, lol. Fair enough, but he just missed out on one of my favourite heroines who turns up a couple of chapters later, in a plot twist even I didn't know about until it happened.

Nice thing is though, he'd also faved all four parts of another, personal story cycle, and left those.

The funny thing about the chapter six is, I can tell from the score that a % of readers didn't like it so much and marked it down, but from the total number of reads tracked against the whole 23 chapters, it's also pretty clear that a whole bunch of folk must have come back and read it twice. So you win some, you lose some.

 

[EverLux]

Or it could be the next mass plagiarist loading up.

That big smile doesn't quite fit with your bleak and completely plausible idea.

 

[EverLux]

How / where do you see who has 'favorited' you? (I'm a newbie, and haven't found that feature yet.)

Under Submissions on your member page (where you submitted your story), you'll see "Recent Activity". That's where you can see favorites and comments.

 

[lovecraft68]

Or it could be the next mass plagiarist loading up.

Have you read my stuff? Jokes on them

 

[TxRad]

Have you read my stuff? Jokes on them

Why do you think I put the grin.

 

[EverLux]

Why do you think I put the grin.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh... I see now

 

[Haulover]

Under Submissions on your member page (where you submitted your story), you'll see "Recent Activity". That's where you can see favorites and comments.

Got it - many thanks!

 

[CyranoJ]

I see this sometimes, too. All I can think is that some readers just don't know it's possible to favourite an author instead of a specific story.

 

[Anomic]

Or it could be the next mass plagiarist loading up.

Sadly, this was the first thing I thought of. Probably because I'm still fighting with ASSTR.org to get my stolen material removed.

 

[SamScribble]

I had a reader favourite and unfavourite one on my stories three times in 24 hours!

I like this. No you don't. Yes I do. No you don't. I do; I really do. No you don't. Now go to your room.

 

[ChloeTzang]

I had a reader favourite and unfavourite one on my stories three times in 24 hours!

I like this. No you don't. Yes I do. No you don't. I do; I really do. No you don't. Now go to your room.

Seen that happen to a couple of my stories as well. Kind of interesting.

 

[YDB95]

I've been seeing a lot of that lately too. I think people are using the favorite function as a bookmark for stories they haven't finished reading.

 

[TexasFarmBoy]

I think part of the problem is that there is no real guide to how to use this site for both readers and writers. For readers, they just do what they see at the moment. For writers, there isn't a clear way to understand what all of the information posted is. Other threads have talked about what a "view" really means and how the rating system works. We just go with the flow.

 

[Tw0Cr0ws]

I see this sometimes, too. All I can think is that some readers just don't know it's possible to favourite an author instead of a specific story.

Sometimes a story stands out from the whole of a writers catalog.
Why favorite the writer when it is that one story that is liked?