Nice while it lasted

[Nightwaves]

Ah, to start Christmas day with a newly-published story and a good rating - a.k.a. the coveted "hot" moniker - then the denouement as the second wave of ratings come in. There must be a term for that ubiquitous surge, then dip.

Back to the typewriter...

 

[Naughty69M2M]

Oh that bites. Hopefully the next wave comes in and bumps it back up.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

How about posting a link so we can look at it?

And don't worry about the ratings. Consider the state of somebody's life if fhey've nothing better to do on Christmas than sit in Mom's basement and drop one-bombs.

 

[Nightwaves]

How about posting a link so we can look at it?

And don't worry about the ratings. Consider the state of somebody's life it fhey've nothing better to do on Christmas than sit in Mom's basement and drop one-bombs.

Thanks, Number Six, but I'm sure this is common to many contributors on this site. I'm to much of a Luddite to find a decent link to my work right now, but I assume searching under my user name will yield results (Nightwaves).

My work is not for everyone, but constructive criticism is always welcome!

Sitting in Mom's basement...LOL.

 

[NotWise]

Thanks, Number Six, but I'm sure this is common to many contributors on this site. I'm to much of a Luddite to find a decent link to my work right now, but I assume searching under my user name will yield results (Nightwaves).

It must be this one.

My stories don't usually get a surge of up votes at the beginning. Typically they start low and build over time, with a couple periods of down-voting during the first day -- about 10 hours after publishing and 14 hours after publishing.

 

[SimonDoom]

Be patient. If it started well and took a sudden dip there's a good chance a sweep will catch and delete some bad scores.

 

[Areala-chan]

I took a quick look at your story, Nightwaves, and I think I see the problem. You've mixed 'Gay Male' in with your hetero Mom/Son incest, which time has shown to produce angry rashes of 1-bombs from the I/T crowd regardless of warning labels. From my understanding, male/male pairings are the least-popular topic among the group, while mom/son is the most popular. Having both in the same story is like building a roaring bonfire, then dumping a bunch of ice cubes on it and wondering what's causing all that hissing and snapping.

The good news: as of now, you appear to be back in 4.50 territory, so either some of those bombs have been swept, or you're garnering additional appreciation from new readers.

 

[SimonDoom]

I took a quick look at your story, Nightwaves, and I think I see the problem. You've mixed 'Gay Male' in with your hetero Mom/Son incest, which time has shown to produce angry rashes of 1-bombs from the I/T crowd regardless of warning labels. From my understanding, male/male pairings are the least-popular topic among the group, while mom/son is the most popular. Having both in the same story is like building a roaring bonfire, then dumping a bunch of ice cubes on it and wondering what's causing all that hissing and snapping.

The good news: as of now, you appear to be back in 4.50 territory, so either some of those bombs have been swept, or you're garnering additional appreciation from new readers.

That would explain it. The mom/son crowd, as I've discovered, is surprisingly straight-laced in its own weird way. Many readers don't like gay male activity mixed in, or even anal play. That's a good score considering it has the gay element.

 

[KeithD]

There must be a term for that ubiquitous surge, then dip.

the Lit. experience, as usual?

 

[shudai]

In the same boat with you here, too. I admit my latest chapter was a bit weaker than the rest, but I didn't expect quite this shift in score. I've got no reason to complain in general, but maybe Christmas voters are a little grumpy?

I'm still trying to understand the way voting ebbs and flows. People say that if you get on a top list, that leads to negative attention?

Ah well, I know I shouldn't fret about it, but internet numbers on my silly smut story are the closest I get to validation for my writing, sigh...

https://www.literotica.com/stories/memberpage.php?uid=4541180&page=submissions

 

[CoffeeWithMonkeys]

Mine usually do the same, start off great, then slowly get the down votes...

 

[Nightwaves]

Thanks, all

Thanks to all for the encouraging words and apt analogies. Yes, it's amazing how folks disregard the "gay" disclaimer and read on, then get offended. That's what I mean by it's not for everyone, my works. However, I've noticed both parts 1 and 3 of Tits are back in the "hot" category. Let's hope the trolls don't ruin it.

Please check out my other works. A lot of them are free of...ahem..."faggots" (as one disgruntled anonymous comment put it).

 

[ishtat]

Mixing MomSon with gay male is unusual and may have lost you a few points but the lactation fetishists could have made up for the shortfall.

Kudos for all three in the same story.

It'd be a good idea to post a link to your submissions page in your sig line.

 

[KenNicottii]

... People say that if you get on a top list, that leads to negative attention? ...

Yes, you can probably expect to be hammered down swiftly if you find one of your stories on the Hall of Fame list, but you’re not an author that this anonymous cabal of voters considers worthy of the honor.

My story Trailing Along was doing pretty well in the Winter Holidays contest 2 years ago. I never expected it to get HoF status since that honor goes to the All-Time Top 20 of each category, and I had written a story in the most crowded category (Erotic Couplings). Plus the HoF rarely includes more than a handful of non-chaptered stories.

Imagine my surprise when the story edged into the bottom slot of the HoF about 3 months later. It took about 48 hours for the haters to catch on and vote it back down into the Top 50, but not before I had made a screen cap (‘Hey, look Ma! You always said I’d never amount to anything.’).

 

[RejectReality]

If you watch the toplists regularly for any length of time, you'll see that it's multiple groups, all working against each other, trying to boost their favorite, while trashing everyone else.

Convince your own readership to stop participating in the ridiculous game, and you'll find your position is much more stable. It will grow to be even more troublesome for these gamers to bomb you down as time passes, and the stints on the toplist attract new readers, who are likewise regularly reminded that you don't want that sort of "help".

Whether you believe you have a following or not, it's likely that a not insignificant amount of your score volatility is a result of your readers participating in the manipulation game.

If sweeps ever reduce your score, you absolutely have fans engaged in bad behavior who need to be reined in.