You can't add up the read counts, because the same people might read every one of your stories. I haven't looked, but say you have 50 stories, each having a reader count of 4,000. That's 200,000 reads, but only 4000 readers. It's unlikely you would have all the stories with absolutely identical readers, but it's really, really unlikely that they were all totally different, that nobody ever read two or more of your stories.
I've always assumed that Manu will know EVERYTHING...
Or at the very least, they're wiping the surfaces down...
Cleanliness is next to saintliness, my mother always told me. So that would be the first step.
Not necessarily. If the data is not being tracked, there is nothing to know.
As has been said before, the view count only means that someone clicked on your story, not that they read it. Mu own stats show that about 3 readers per 100 vote and about 1 reader out 1000 leaves a comment.
Yes, that's my metric, one Vote per 100 Views, one Comment per Thousand. Anything stronger than that, the story has done well.
Correct. Simple tests will show that a View is a click into the first page of a story, and updates your CP immediately. Subsequent pages are NOT counted (as some people seem to think). With a stand-alone story, there's no way of knowing how many people read the whole thing. With chaptered stories you can get more of a clue by looking at the View count on the last chapter.
Agree, they have sufficient to run the sweeps with some effect; and yes they could show the score breakdown but have chosen not to. I suspect it's only a small group of authors who care, and after a while its irrelevant anyway.
