Difference between followers and favorites?

[Imstillfun]

I don’t know where three numbers come from. I have X followers but y favorites? If I download my stats none match that. Where do these numbers come from?

 

[PennameWombat]

Followers are the number of accounts following you. They get a notification whenever you post a new story or update your profile. This shows up in multiple places, on your control panel and alongside your author name on each story. Won't show up in downloaded stats.

There are different Favorites. There are the per story favorites, at the end of each story there is an 'Add to Favorites'. On your control panel view of your stories, each story has a little heart icon, the number next to that are the number of favorites. If you download your stats, this will be one column. Accounts can also create reading lists, and add your stories to those.

There's also the list of stories you've made your favorites, these are listed on your account page. Again, not in downloaded stats

 

[JGittes]

The downloaded statistics file lists favorites in the column "In reading lists." The column labeled "Reading lists" (last column in the file) I believe is the sum of favorites and reading lists. The column "In reading lists" should be the same number beside the heart icon on your control panel, works page.

 

[Imstillfun]

I don’t understand. I’m obviously not bright. If I go to an authors page and press the ‘add to favorites‘ button. Am I following them or making them a favorite. I thought that was following. But If that’s making them a favorite, how do I follow them?

 

[Zenith77]

I don’t understand. I’m obviously not bright. If I go to an authors page and press the ‘add to favorites‘ button. Am I following them or making them a favorite. I thought that was following. But If that’s making them a favorite, how do I follow them?

In your control panel, 'favourites' are authors you've liked, and 'followers' are people that have favourited you.

 

[BobbyBrandt]

In your control panel, 'favourites' are authors you've liked, and 'followers' are people that have favourited you.

I think you have it mixed up a bit.

The column shown from the control panel lists "Favorites", which are stories that you have tagged as ones that you like. "Following" are the authors that you have tagged to follow their status.

At the top of the section are your number of stories, the number of authors that you are following, and the number of readers following you.

 

[BobbyBrandt]

I don’t understand. I’m obviously not bright. If I go to an authors page and press the ‘add to favorites‘ button. Am I following them or making them a favorite. I thought that was following. But If that’s making them a favorite, how do I follow them?

On an author's profile or stories page, the "Add to Favorite" button allows you to "follow" that author.

If you click on their "Favorites" tab, you can see who they are following and what their favorite stories are.

 

[JGittes]

I don’t understand. I’m obviously not bright. If I go to an authors page and press the ‘add to favorites‘ button. Am I following them or making them a favorite. I thought that was following. But If that’s making them a favorite, how do I follow them?

You are correct that clicking the button 'add to favorites' will add the author to your following list. Why that button says 'add to favorites' requires more calculus than I've taken. You can also follow an author by clicking on that 'person +' icon next to the author's name on the story page.

Favoriting stories is the bookmark icon on the story page, and there are two types of favoriting. One type is 'this is a favorite story of mine' and shows up as column five on the downloaded statistics package. The second type of favorite is 'bookmark for reading later, a reading list,' which is part of column six on the downloaded statistics package. Column six is the sum of both types of favoriting stories.

Again, why there is so much confusion in the identification of all these types of favorites and how to do them requires and how to do them at least diff eqs.

 

[Zenith77]

...requires more calculus than I've taken.

There's a reason everyone dropped calculus.

 

[SimonDoom]

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On an author's profile or stories page, the "Add to Favorite" button allows you to "follow" that author.

If you click on their "Favorites" tab, you can see who they are following and what their favorite stories are.
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That's just an inconsistency in nomenclature. There's no such thing as "favoriting" an author as opposed to "following" an author. It's the same thing.

 

[HectorBidon]

If I go to an authors page and press the ‘add to favorites‘ button. Am I following them or making them a favorite. I thought that was following. But If that’s making them a favorite, how do I follow them?

I generally do this on the Story page. At the bottom of the story there is an "Add Story to Favorites" button. If you press that, then the story will be added to the Favorite Stories list on your Member / Favorites Page and to your Control Panel / Favorites Page. Plus, the author will be notified that you favorited their story.

The Story page also has a "Follow Author" button. If you press that, then the author will be added to the Favorite Authors list on your Member / Favorites Page and to your Control Panel / Following / Following Page. Plus the author will be notified that you are following them. Plus, whenever the author publishes a new story, you will be notified on your Control Panel / My Home / Latest Activity Page.

I've never tried the "Add to Favorites" button on an author's member page, but I imagine it adds the author to your Favorite Authors list. So it might be more consistent if this button were called "Follow this Author."

When somebody favorites your story, you are notified on your Control Panel / My Home / Latest Activity Page. The number of hearts associated with the story on the various lists is the number of people who have favorited the story. You can see the usernames of some of them under the "Add Story to Favorites" button at the end of the story, but there is no easy way to see the complete list of all of the people who favorited a story.

When somebody starts to follow you, you are notified on your Control Panel / My Home / Latest Activity Page. You can see all the people who are following you on your Control Panel / Following / My Followers Page. Every time you publish a new story, all the people who are following you will be notified.

 

[BobbyBrandt]

That's just an inconsistency in nomenclature. There's no such thing as "favoriting" an author as opposed to "following" an author. It's the same thing.

No disagreement from me. That is where the confusion exists.

 

[Imstillfun]

So, still confused here. …. I’m not asking the question right. I know where I see people started following me and people favorited my stories., but

here is the new favorites page. On the upper right hand side It lists followed authors and the favorite authors.

https://literotica.com/favorites/favoritest-authors/

on the new favorites page it says I have 9000+ followers. Are Those people clicked the add to favorites button on my profile page?

then I have been favorited by 22,000+ people. where does that number come from? Those people favorited one of my stories?

 

[SimonDoom]

So, still confused here. …. I’m not asking the question right. I know where I see people started following me and people favorited my stories., but

here is the new favorites page. On the upper right hand side It lists followed authors and the favorite authors.

https://literotica.com/favorites/favoritest-authors/

on the new favorites page it says I have 9000+ followers. Are Those people clicked the add to favorites button on my profile page?

then I have been favorited by 22,000+ people. where does that number come from? Those people favorited one of my stories?

I hope this clears it up once and for all:

The Followed authors list consists of those who have followed you, which also includes those who have added you to their personal author favorites list. In this case, favorites and followers are exactly the same thing.

The Favoritest authors list is the list of authors ranked by the total number of favorites for all their stories.

The favorite stories list is the list of individual stories by the number of times they've been favorited.

 

[Imstillfun]

I hope this clears it up once and for all:

The Followed authors list consists of those who have followed you, which also includes those who have added you to their personal author favorites list. In this case, favorites and followers are exactly the same thing.

The Favoritest authors list is the list of authors ranked by the total number of favorites for all their stories.

The favorite stories list is the list of individual stories by the number of times they've been favorited.

Thank you. That clears it up

 

[Imstillfun]

Now to add to the confusion. If you download your stats there is a column called ‘reading lists’ and one called ‘in reading lists’ where do those numbers come from?

 

[SimonDoom]

Now to add to the confusion. If you download your stats there is a column called ‘reading lists’ and one called ‘in reading lists’ where do those numbers come from?

The column on the far right is the sum of bookmarks (to read later) and favorites. The column to the left of that one is favorites only.

 

[jehoram]

I've always supposed that readers follow authors and favorite stories. Maybe I'm wrong.
At any rate, "favorite" doesn't mean much. Readers often use it as a bookmark function, so they have a list of unfinished stories they can refer to. I don't know if there's a way of "un-favoriting" a story once it's been read.

 

[djrip]

I generally follow every author that I favorite at least one story from.

Yes you can unfavorite a story. I used to favorite stories as a reading list, but now there's the "to read" list for that. Now I'm trying to work back through my favorites and get everything read.

 

[Duleigh]

Followers follow YOU Favorites like ONE STORY.

When you update your biography, which I do quite often with new releases, your followers get notified.