Comment and star cleaning

[KeithD]

I would think the vast majority of them are potential readers who have clicked on, seen the length of the story, and moved on. Taking into account it’s only been up for a couple of days those who have read it must have spent the majority of their waking hours reading it.

This emphasizes, in terms of being real, something about this that bugs me. When this came up, there had been 12 votes on this. It was posted less than two days previously. It is 31 Lit. pages and 119,000 words. I've been in publishing for a very long time. No one reading random stories on a story Web site is going to read 119,000 words in less than two days after they have stumbled on what is an ongoing series in a two-year hiatus. No one having a real life is going to get 119,000 words read in less than two days at all. So the 12 votes themselves are bogus in real world terms. The votes are not based on having actually read the work, so they aren't prompted by the content of the work at all. We aren't talking reality in anything about the reading/rating of this one. This could be a marvelous work--the rating of it just isn't from the real world.

Let's get real, folks.

 

[Sir_Maveric]

This emphasizes, in terms of being real, something about this that bugs me. When this came up, there had been 12 votes on this. It was posted less than two days previously. It is 31 Lit. pages and 119,000 words. I've been in publishing for a very long time. No one reading random stories on a story Web site is going to read 119,000 words in less than two days after they have stumbled on what is an ongoing series in a two-year hiatus. No one having a real life is going to get 119,000 words read in less than two days at all. So the 12 votes themselves are bogus in real world terms. The votes are not based on having actually read the work, so they aren't prompted by the content of the work at all. We aren't talking reality in anything about the reading/rating of this one. This could be a marvelous work--the rating of it just isn't from the real world.

Let's get real, folks.

This I completely agree with. Each read through for me to edit the damn thing took me days. The final read through took me two days of sitting on my ass in front of the computer and ignoring my wife and kids just so I could send it for publishing. This whole scoring systems bugs me and makes me anxious. I need to learn to ignore it.

Thank you all for your input. I truly appreciate it.

 

[Rustyoznail]

This I completely agree with. Each read through for me to edit the damn thing took me days. The final read through took me two days of sitting on my ass in front of the computer and ignoring my wife and kids just so I could send it for publishing. This whole scoring systems bugs me and makes me anxious. I need to learn to ignore it.

Thank you all for your input. I truly appreciate it.

Understanding that it's outside your control and therefore shouldn't control you is a major step in your learning, young one...

Just like you'll revisit the published story and find mistakes...

 

[ChloeTzang]

Understanding that it's outside your control and therefore shouldn't control you is a major step in your learning, young one...

Just like you'll revisit the published story and find mistakes...

Yep. Been there done dat. Score wise it’s doing okay. If you were getting bombed by a one star troll you’d see it, believe me. Especially with that # of votes. Your getting the usual scattering of 4s and 5s from readers that like it. That’s a rating I’d be happy with for anything I wrote.

My latest story did the same - sitting at 4.93 For the first week or two and then slipped to 4.8x and now to 4.7x - it did get a few one stars - you could tell by the sudden drop - but hey, goes with the territory and I’m used to it now. Doesn’t worry me - them that like my stories will read it anyhow.

With experience comes a thicker skin, grasshopper.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

That's what I would have thought too, but most were submitted as chapters. There are a handful in one shot; the longest one I've found is eleven Lit pages.

Then you must have missed mine... it's 25 pages long.

My 130K story from last year has 5.4K views and 15 (no K) votes... I guess very few made it to the finish line.

Mine is only 92K words, yet I have 19.5K views and 54 votes but only 3 comments.