Do you look at the profiles of those who favor one of your stories?

[Comshaw]

When I check my home page on my writers profile and see that someone has favored one of my stories, I go take a look (if they are a registered user) at their profile. Some are almost blank, containing the bare amount of info to get registered. Others tell more about the user and I like to read it and get as much a feel as I can for that person. It's a nice feeling to know the numbers have a person behind them.

Out of all of those, the ones that brings the biggest smile to my face are other authors who favor one of my stories. It doesn't matter if they have published 1 or hundreds, or if their average score is in the high 4's down in the 1's. It pleases me no end to find a fellow author thought enough of my story to favor it, to want to go back and read it again. To me that is more of an attaboy than anything else.

Do you look at the profile of those who favor your work? How do you feel about it?

Comshaw

 

[AlinaX]

I like scrolling through their lists of favourites for interesting stories to read.

 

[tenyari]

I have looked at a few of them recently.

I write for my own kinks / fetishes (consensual CMNF / ENF / erotic nudity). So if someone likes a story I wrote, I get hopeful that they are a writer with the same interests as me, and will have something I want to read.

The whole reason I originally wrote stories twenty years ago was that I had originally hoped to be prolific enough to inspire copy-cats who's works I would get a thrill reading, or myself get read by the kinds of authors I was trying and failing to find. That didn't happen, as I found myself to be a very slow and deliberate writer with a massive volume of unfinished work. But, I still check to see if anyone reading me is also writing to my tastes.


If you're not just a writer, but also a reader, the best "search engine" is often looking at your own fans.

 

[SimonDoom]

I often do this when someone has favorited one of my stories or followed me. I'm curious about who they are and what they like. It can also be a way to find stories or authors that I may enjoy as well.

 

[Winter_Fare]

Absolutely I look, but I try not to read too much into it. After all, some people have a caddy full of profiles, some honest, some not so much. Sometimes I find people with similar interests to mine, but equally I can end up losing an hour down a rabbit hole of stories I never normally would have read and that's nice too x

 

[lovecraft68]

Not in a very long time.

 

[Rustyoznail]

I do, but it gets a bit depressing when I'm one of a hundred or more "favourites".

 

[KeithD]

Sometimes.

 

[lovecraft68]

I do, but it gets a bit depressing when I'm one of a hundred or more "favourites".

Right? I've seen fav pages so long it would be a shorter list of who isn't on it.

 

[AlexBailey]

I like checking those favs, my stories are aimed at a pretty specific audience so I’m often interested in some of their other favorites.

I know that some other authors do this too because I’ve received feedback from some of them soon after I’ve favorited or commented on their works.

Lit has some cool community features.

 

[GinnyPPC]

Sometimes - more when someone faves or comments on multiple chapters.

 

[Blind_Justice]

More often than not the usernames are just seemingly random amalgams of numbers and letters, like AB946. To me this is one step above Anonymous and their profiles usually are a long list of defaults. Not much to see there.

 

[gunhilltrain]

I do, but it gets a bit depressing when I'm one of a hundred or more "favourites".

More like at least two-hundred or more. I can't even count them all most of the time. It's not depressing, but it is striking how people make reading Lit stories into one of their favorite pastimes.

 

[Blind_Justice]

More like at least two-hundred or more. I can't even count them all most of the time. It's not depressing, but it is striking how people make reading Lit stories into one of their favorite pastimes.

I bet many LW readers see these lists as their hit lists. New story - bam, here's your free 1-bomb for today.

 

[gunhilltrain]

I bet many LW readers see these lists as their hit lists. New story - bam, here's your free 1-bomb for today.

As William Burroughs wrote, "Sometimes paranoia is just having all the facts."

 

[MelissaBaby]

When I check my home page on my writers profile and see that someone has favored one of my stories, I go take a look (if they are a registered user) at their profile. Some are almost blank, containing the bare amount of info to get registered. Others tell more about the user and I like to read it and get as much a feel as I can for that person. It's a nice feeling to know the numbers have a person behind them.

Out of all of those, the ones that brings the biggest smile to my face are other authors who favor one of my stories. It doesn't matter if they have published 1 or hundreds, or if their average score is in the high 4's down in the 1's. It pleases me no end to find a fellow author thought enough of my story to favor it, to want to go back and read it again. To me that is more of an attaboy than anything else.

Do you look at the profile of those who favor your work? How do you feel about it?

Comshaw

I do, and like you, I am really pleased when I see it is another author.

 

[Bramblethorn]

Do you look at the profile of those who favor your work? How do you feel about it?

Comshaw

Always, because I'm curious. Mostly I look at their other favourites. There are a bunch of other authors who write in similar areas to me, so it's not a surprise to be sharing a list with them. But some people have hugely eclectic tastes - today I got faved by somebody who also has Ashson on their list, which seems like a long way away from what I tend to write.

And then occasionally I'm their first/only favourite, and that's a nice boost.

Right? I've seen fav pages so long it would be a shorter list of who isn't on it.

I've joked with some of the other writers about the prestigious "not favourited by IrishSexStoryLover" award...

 

[TheRedChamber]

I've joked with some of the other writers about the prestigious "not favourited by IrishSexStoryLover" award...

Checks favourite list...godamnit.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I always do - there's a tiny buzz when it's a short list, especially if I'm on there with other authors I respect - it's interesting to find who they go through before they find me. I see patterns.

Those folk with pages of faved authors, not so much - what, I'm just more of the same for you? And yes - do those guys do anything else except read smut?

 

[PeytonMirabelle]

With comments more than favorites. Every once in a while, I get a pleasant surprise, like when someone writes, "I believe this is my favorite story of everything I have read on Literotica," and when I check their profile, I see they've been a member since 2009 and have 100+ favorited stories ... warm fuzzies, right there. That made it worth it to check.

 

[Smuttyandfun]

I usually take at least a quick look. It's interesting to see whatever tastes they have, and if my writing fits into what they normally read. It's a nice surprise when someone who has just registered chooses me as their first author, or one of my stories as a favorite. Seeing another author favor my work is a nice surprise, too.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

Yes, I look, mostly to see what else they may have written and also who else they've followed or favourited.

It's a cool feeling when someone has only followed four other authors over a decade, or less than a dozen stories. It gives me leads towards other stories and authors I might like to read.

I do find it amusing when men leave their profile blank except for 'Male' and 'Straight'. Gotta make that clear to everybody! Especially if they're Following my works - there's occasionally a heterosexual man in my stories but most of them have had at least a penile brush-by, if not a blow job from a man...

 

[ElectricBlue]

I do find it amusing when men leave their profile blank except for 'Male' and 'Straight'. Gotta make that clear to everybody! Especially if they're Following my works - there's occasionally a heterosexual man in my stories but most of them have had at least a penile brush-by, if not a blow job from a man...

You are so subversive, KQQ, outing the real man inside every man .

 

[oggbashan]

Not for favourites. Only for comments when I reply thanking them for their comment.

 

[Voboy]

Routinely. Provided they have fewer than twenty favorites, their favorites become my recs for stories to read. If a reader is into me, they're probably into other people who write like me.

It is gratifying to be liked or followed by another writer, but I don't get all warm and fuzzy about it. More like an, "Oh! That's nice of them!" And then it's off to check their favorites.