Days of the week > Threat of the one bombs

[Emilymcplugger]

I was wondering as I slowly moved back to 4* after two one-bombing assholes this weekend if there is a correlation between getting 1* ratings and days of the week.

I wondered if weekends maybe more likely to attract such trolls rather than weekdays.

What do you think?

 

[EmilyMiller]

Hi me,

How am I doing?

I was talking to a writer about the optimum day to get published; not something I had ever thought about before. But hadn’t thought about the troll-quotient of different days. Interesting to see if anyone has any ideas.

Nice to talk to me.

Em (v0.2)

 

[AwkwardlySet]

There are more readers during weekends on average. Also, I would say that having more time to check the stories out, some readers stray into categories they don't usually read which inevitably leads to getting a low rating from someone who shouldn't have been reading that story in the first place, assuming the proper tags were in place too. It is almost a proven fact that some readers will click on a story even if you display the tags he dislikes, even if you write a foreword, warning about the type of content the story has. Some of the comments they write testify to that kind of behavior.

 

[Smuttyandfun]

When one of my stories is posted, regardless of the day of the week, pretty much without fail, if it's doing well I'll get a few one bombs that will knock down the score, at least for a while. Then whoever is enjoying it will often boost it back up.

 

[KeithD]

I think there are too many variables at play for there to be much of a regular pattern.

 

[Voboy]

It makes sense that more people view stories on weekends. And if there are more readers, there are probably more votes.

Beyond that? Nobody knows for sure.

 

[John_Vandermeer]

No idea about 1-bombs, but to me readership in general does seem to be greater on weekends. And surprisingly, seems to be somewhat greater on early morning and late afternoon/evening US times. Surprisingly, because there are so many more time zones among readers. Maybe US readers are still dominant. I am not sure the maxim "publish just before the weekend" is necessarily true. As it seems one will get the weekend bump regardless. It is like many readers that read only weekly will check the whole previous week catalog. Anything with an orange NEW.

I have noticed 1-bombs do come early in the life of a story. The first couple of days and first week. And if you reached the point where readers are finding you--enough of a growing catalogue of work--the story will inevitably climb. As much as half a point or more. Between the occasional Laurel 1-sweep, and readers that search words and tags rather than merely find at the top of a list, many of which end up voting 5s.

I also think it is important to distinguish the source of the 1-bomb. I think readers mostly 1-bomb on kink intolerance, when it is not their thing. Many of you AH denizens have admitted to not voting if you cant vote a 5. But some of you have admitted to 1-voting if the writing/editing sets you off. I think readers care less about about a missed spelling, punctuation, or gramatical error or two. They are more focused on the overall premise and execution, and--again--whether it matches their kinks.

 

[NotWise]

I kept statistics (or course I did) on views/story/day for my catalog. It's 1500+ days of data, all pre-pandemic. The median views/story doesn't change very much at all from day to day. The highest rate came between Tuesday morning and Wednesday morning (US), and the lowest came between Wednesday morning and Thursday morning, The difference between that high and low was about half a view per day per story. The significance of that small difference is questionable.

The pattern is slightly different if you use the average views/story/day because that statistic is heavily influenced by the high view count on the day your story goes live. I had the largest average views/story/day between Thursday morning and Friday morning, because quite a few of my stories went live on Thursday morning.

In neither case does the highest views/story/day come between Friday morning and Monday morning. The weekend tends to be about average.

I'm with KeithD. There are too many factors in play for there to be a real daily pattern to one bombs.

For my stories, there may be a tendency for 1 bombs to come during the early morning hours. That includes the first few hours after the story goes live, so it isn't odd to have a one bomb in the mix when I get up in the morning. I think that's because of the nature of my stories, so your mileage will vary.

 

[MelissaBaby]

In my experience, there is a broad pattern to the scoring on my stories. In virtually every instance, my stories have gone online around 3 AM, my time. I get high scores in the early voting, then a steep (more than one 1 vote) in the afternoon, followed by a steady rise. Commonly, I will get another dip in the evening, but by that point, there are usually enough votes accumulated to dull any impact.

That's my pattern. It's specifically MY pattern, another writer's pattern is likely to be different, because, well, variables are variable.

I'm from New England. I put a lot of regional color in my stories. Maybe that boosts my scores when US East Coast readers are more active, and lowers my scores when they are not.

Maybe I have one person with multiple accounts who really doesn't like my stories and one bombs each submission around the same time of day.

Maybe because I tend to write long stories, I get a surge of later voting because they take longer to finish.

The point is, even if we could ascertain any sort of overall pattern in voting, it would still vary widely among individual writers.

 

[ElectricBlue]

The point is, even if we could ascertain any sort of overall pattern in voting, it would still vary widely among individual writers.

Agree this. I tend to think category behaviour drives the various voting patterns more than the day of release. Like NotWise, I've not seen much of a daily effect - I submit stories when they're ready, I don't even think about when in the week it might be.

Being in Australia, the US midnight story release is mid-afternoon here (moves around, depending on daylight saving being on or off), so I'll sometimes spot the "out of the gate" shenanigans. The first sweep going through nearly always shifts the score up a point or two.

That first run up to Red H is important, to bring in the punters, no matter what people think. In the categories I write in (which aren't the two highest volume ones), a story's score tends to settle between 20 - 30 votes, by the end of the first week or so. The longer term trend, over the years, tends to drift scores higher, as more folk find my back-catalogue.

Comments are important too - I have a direct correlation between my most read and highest scored stories and the number of comments received. None of these have LW rates of commentary, though, nor the View counts of I&T. These observations are more typical of "the rest of Lit", I think.

 

[Cagivagurl]

The two worst days of the week to post a story (Based on views alone) are Wednesday, and Saturday. The best day is Monday. As I say this is based on views only and using Literotica data,

 

[gunhilltrain]

I think there are too many variables at play for there to be much of a regular pattern.

I would agree with that, although I've never had the inclination to truly study it; it's not worth my time. I think Lit is actually about three hours off the U.S. Eastern time zone, so I've noticed that forum activity will drop off during the nighttime hours in America.

 

[mirafrida]

There are variations, but regardless of when I get published, I often have a quite good first day, and then get hammered badly on the second day.

I take that as a function of the stats getting updated on the category page, calling attention to the story as both "new" and "hot." This then generates a bunch of negativity on the part of people who are offended that such an obviously crappy story should be marked hot. That's my interpretation anyway.

 

[TheRedChamber]

Being in Australia, the US midnight story release is mid-afternoon here (moves around, depending on daylight saving being on or off), so I'll sometimes spot the "out of the gate" shenanigans. The first sweep going through nearly always shifts the score up a point or two.

I've also noticed this. Ignoring my own time-zone, if we assume that stories get released at midnight the pattern typically goes:

a) From publication to about 10am the story gets 'normal' votes - for a typical story somewhere between 4.0 and 5.0
b) Sometime 10am to before 6pm the story picks up at least a handful of bombs, in some cases enough to drag it down into the 3.xs
c) After then the story typically recovers, it may take a few hours or weeks but it will eventually crawl back over 4.0.
d) At some point a sweep will help this process kicking it up a few tenths of a star.

This is fairly predicatable and seems to happen when I publish in most categies (exception was my Loving Wives story which started low and stayed there!)

 

[gunhilltrain]

I've also noticed this. Ignoring my own time-zone, if we assume that stories get released at midnight the pattern typically goes:

a) From publication to about 10am the story gets 'normal' votes - for a typical story somewhere between 4.0 and 5.0
b) Sometime 10am to before 6pm the story picks up at least a handful of bombs, in some cases enough to drag it down into the 3.xs
c) After then the story typically recovers, it may take a few hours or weeks but it will eventually crawl back over 4.0.
d) At some point a sweep will help this process kicking it up a few tenths of a star.

This is fairly predicatable and seems to happen when I publish in most categies (exception was my Loving Wives story which started low and stayed there!)

In the case of the post I made above, I submitted it at 12:43 AM New York time, but Lit lists it as 4:43 AM. A three-hour difference. Anybody want to do the work of telling me which time zone that is?

 

[alohadave]

In the case of the post I made above, I submitted it at 12:43 AM New York time, but Lit lists it as 4:43 AM. A three-hour difference. Anybody want to do the work of telling me which time zone that is?

You may have some time zone setting on your computer that is messing with the display. It should show your local time based on what your system clock shows.

It's a 4 hour difference. That many hours ahead would be the Azores and Cape Verde islands time zone.

It's most likely that posts are recorded in UTC no matter where you post from and your computer does the conversions to localize the time.

Lit is based in the US, but that shouldn't affect what times you see on your posts.

 

[gunhilltrain]

You may have some time zone setting on your computer that is messing with the display. It should show your local time based on what your system clock shows.

It's a 4 hour difference. That many hours ahead would be the Azores and Cape Verde islands time zone.

It's most likely that posts are recorded in UTC no matter where you post from and your computer does the conversions to localize the time.

Lit is based in the US, but that shouldn't affect what times you see on your posts.

You're right, four hours. I need more coffee, and I always crew-up basic arithmetic unless I use a pen and paper. Or the computer's calculator. The UTC record makes sense. So where exactly are Laurel and Manu, not that it makes much difference? They may not even be in the same location.