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[Brutal_One]

I just noticed one of my story chapters is shown as hot! What determines this? Just curious. Oddly it’s chapter 04 which was the second chapter in my two character dialog where I have the same conversation but with the actual thoughts of each character during the conversation being in different chapters 02 and 04

It was the second of these chapter 04 that today is reporting as hot!

Brutal One

 

[Kumquatqueen]

You get it if you have at least 10 votes and an average of 4.5 or more. Later chapters in a story tend to get higher votes as only the people who like the story are still reading.

I'm not miffed that my latest story was Hot for 2 weeks, then dropped to 4.48, no,not at all...

 

[Brutal_One]

Thanks for the explanation. This was one of the earlier chapters. I am up to chapter 15 currently. Hopefully it encourages readers to read more in the series. Brutal One.

 

[davion2308]

Voting

As was explained, the scoring needs to be at 4.5 or higher with enough votes to count. In this case, you need 10.

The real question is: What was done differently or better that you got the higher votes for this story compared to your other chapters? I would be interested to see why this generated the fancy "H" when your other chapters in the story did not.

 

[Brutal_One]

As was explained, the scoring needs to be at 4.5 or higher with enough votes to count. In this case, you need 10.

The real question is: What was done differently or better that you got the higher votes for this story compared to your other chapters? I would be interested to see why this generated the fancy "H" when your other chapters in the story did not.

I am ‘mystified too’ this was a literary experiment where I wrote the first conversation between our two main characters from both perspectives. The first in chapter 02 where we have the thoughts from our Male character.

Chapter 04 is the same conversation but from our female character’s perspective.

I had a thread on this - “two character conversation”.

http://forum.literotica.com/showthread.php?t=1525955

The popular view is it was a mistake and it would have been better to combine. It also raised the topic of ‘head popping’ which if written in one chapter it would have been but here it is the female thought and her reaction.

I had one public comment saying ‘duplicate chapter’ which it really wasn’t.

It was quite an important conversation and the very first between our 2 characters with a ‘cliff hanger’ question that gets an answer in ch05.

I had not planned to use the technique again in part due to the constructive feedback I received.

It’s still maybe not clear that’s what it was but presumably readers did like to hear the female characters reaction to this surprising first conversation.

Brutal One

 

[Enchantment_of_Nyx]

I am ‘mystified too’ this was a literary experiment where I wrote the first conversation between our two main characters from both perspectives. The first in chapter 02 where we have the thoughts from our Male character.

Chapter 04 is the same conversation but from our female character’s perspective.

I had a thread on this - “two character conversation”.

http://forum.literotica.com/showthread.php?t=1525955

The popular view is it was a mistake and it would have been better to combine. It also raised the topic of ‘head popping’ which if written in one chapter it would have been but here it is the female thought and her reaction.

I had one public comment saying ‘duplicate chapter’ which it really wasn’t.

It was quite an important conversation and the very first between our 2 characters with a ‘cliff hanger’ question that gets an answer in ch05.

I had not planned to use the technique again in part due to the constructive feedback I received.

It’s still maybe not clear that’s what it was but presumably readers did like to hear the female characters reaction to this surprising first conversation.

Brutal One

You need to look at the number of votes it is based on. If it's not based on a good number of votes, the score is no basis for preening over, despairing over, or finding insights in. That goes for both the chapter with the score you're pleased with and the chapter with the score you aren't pleased with. The more statistically relevant it is, the more instructive it is.

 

[Brutal_One]

You need to look at the number of votes it is based on. If it's not based on a good number of votes, the score is no basis for preening over, despairing over, or finding insights in. That goes for both the chapter with the score you're pleased with and the chapter with the score you aren't pleased with. The more statistically relevant it is, the more instructive it is.

I am still learning of course hence the question. I think my Lit numbers are probably very, very low but the main initial objective was to get the series started and hope that it is not viewed as terrible ie <3.0 overall and if the majority are over 4.0 then I should be and am happy. Of 15 published chapters 13 are over 4.0 and the rest well above 3.0. Chapter 10 which is the highest sex content and probably a decent description has the most reads at 7615 which I imagine is still very, very lo in lit terms but as a new publisher certainly wants me to keep writing more and improve as I learn more from the forums. For example the highest viewed chapter 10 is the one where I screwed up the dialog so it’s the one I plan to edit to fix the dialog faux pas. Brutal One.

 

[lovecraft68]

I should point out-and others here can attest to this-that when you mention a story getting an H...its an easy way to lose the H. There are readers who ghost here as well as a couple of petty people who will go and drop a bomb on your story.

Sucks, but its true.

 

[Enchantment_of_Nyx]

I am still learning of course hence the question. I think my Lit numbers are probably very, very low but the main initial objective was to get the series started and hope that it is not viewed as terrible ie <3.0 overall and if the majority are over 4.0 then I should be and am happy. Of 15 published chapters 13 are over 4.0 and the rest well above 3.0. Chapter 10 which is the highest sex content and probably a decent description has the most reads at 7615 which I imagine is still very, very lo in lit terms but as a new publisher certainly wants me to keep writing more and improve as I learn more from the forums. For example the highest viewed chapter 10 is the one where I screwed up the dialog so it’s the one I plan to edit to fix the dialog faux pas. Brutal One.

That's not quite what I was saying. I'm not talking about views. I'm talking about votes. On your author's console, the main page where you log in, when you look at your score, there's one number, a slash, and then another number. 4.0/10 would mean ten votes that average out to 4.0 for the score. 4.0/10 would tell you much less than 4.0/25, or 4.0/50. Scores tend to stabilize as they get close to 80 votes, but it depends on the category and vote volume.

If you have a small number of votes, it can be heavily influenced by one or two people who really like your work (5s) or by one or two people who hate it (1s). Do the math, and you'll see how big of a swing it makes. Think of those high and low voters as the outliers. They don't represent majority opinion in most cases. Once a story gets a lot of votes, the outliers become less statistically significant, and your score becomes a more reliable indicator. When your number of votes are low, when you react to the difference in score between one chapter and another, you may be reacting to a single voter's opinion that made the difference in the score.

I don't think the number of views tells you much of anything. I think it's just how many people opened it. It doesn't mean they read it and it doesn't tell you if they liked it.

 

[lovecraft68]

That's not quite what I was saying. I'm not talking about views. I'm talking about votes. On your author's console, the main page where you log in, when you look at your score, there's one number, a slash, and then another number. 4.0/10 would mean ten votes that average out to 4.0 for the score. 4.0/10 would tell you much less than 4.0/25, or 4.0/50. Scores tend to stabilize as they get close to 80 votes, but it depends on the category and vote volume.

Right....kind of looks like this

That's What Friends Are For
Justin's best friend Samantha will do anything for him.
03/29/2014 in First Time Stories
Published
W
HOT
3k(favs 3084 to be exact it doesn't break down that specific the full number is on a top list page)
1.84M
4.81 / 18.2k
543(this is number of comments)