3rd number in submissions area?

[MagicaPractica]

You know when you're looking at your page of what stories you have submitted etc. There are three numbers across on the left, in the middle. There's the average score, the number of people who voted, then what's that next number? I was thinking it would be the number of people who viewed your story but it looks unreasonably big. Is it the number assigned by Lit for your story (as in number 3,652 to be added to Lit)?

Thanks

 

[Guest]

Nope, you were right the first time, it's the number of reads, or how many views you've had.

 

[cantdog]

It balloons all out of proportion to the others, because if a reader just opens the web page of the story, and then closes it, it is tallied as a "view."

 

[MagicaPractica]

Interesting, thank you. I wonder if it adds a hit every time one of the pages of the story is viewed, as in three hits if all three pages were viewed etc. Too bad everybody doesn't vote. You'd get a better picture that way.

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

Why do I get 47,000,000 reads and 8 votes?? ** crying **

 

[Weird Harold]

Interesting, thank you. I wonder if it adds a hit every time one of the pages of the story is viewed, as in three hits if all three pages were viewed etc. Too bad everybody doesn't vote. You'd get a better picture that way.

I'm not sure whether it counts a "view" for every page, I suspect it does.

I am reasonably sure that the low ratio of votes to views is in part due to views being recorded for every page request -- including "bots" from the various search engines, hackers, story thieves, and other requests that have nothing to do with a real human looking for something to read.

 

[cantdog]

I never thought of that, Weird; you're probably right. And just as dead men don't wear plaid, 'bots don't vote.

Hey Jenny, darlin'. If you've got a submission with just eight votes, all you need is a couple authors to read it and vote, to put you over the ten-vote threshhold. PM me; I got a poem which has had nine votes for almost a damn year. We can swap.

 

[rgraham666]

I'm not sure if pages after page one, bots etc. affect the views.

Some of my older multi-page stories will only collect a dozen hits a day.

I think, considering the number of bots wandering the internet, the numbers would be much bigger if bots affected the numbers.

But I don't know what criteria Lit uses for views so I could easily be wrong.

 

[MagicaPractica]

I never thought of that, Weird; you're probably right. And just as dead men don't wear plaid, 'bots don't vote.

Hey Jenny, darlin'. If you've got a submission with just eight votes, all you need is a couple authors to read it and vote, to put you over the ten-vote threshhold. PM me; I got a poem which has had nine votes for almost a damn year. We can swap.

What is the significance of a ten vote threshhold? Where does it lead?

 

[cloudy]

What is the significance of a ten vote threshhold? Where does it lead?

you have to have at least ten votes, and your rating at 4.5 or better to get that little H next to your story ("hot").