Getting an Edited Story re-voted/commented

[HCallahan]

Hello,
I am a first time author and posted my first story. It felt great to do it, but as soon as I posted it, it got lit up from being on the front page I assume. I had almost 20K views, 40 comments and almost 400 votes in a short amount of time.

The comments shredded me for jumping around, not enough description, the usual first timer gripes.
The votes were therefore poor with a 2.39 net result.

This resulted in me performing a MAJOR edit. The story was still the same, but I added major back story, explained issues in relationships, created anticipation, wrote more erotica and focused less on the literary porn. I gave the commenters as much as I could without changing the nature of the story itself.

Cutting to the chase...now that I reposted the edit, I have had 60 views in the past 24 hours, 0 votes, and 0 comments.

Is there something I need to do to keep the readership active that I don't know on a re-post?
The story is here btw:
http://www.literotica.com/s/off-the-rocks-pt-01

Thank you,
-H

 

[RejectReality]

When you edit something, your edits are applied, and it doesn't appear on the new stories list again.

If you want to do a complete do-over, you have to delete the original submission, wait until it vanishes from your list, and then resubmit as a new story.

Stand warned that there are some people who will criticize and low-vote you for doing that if they recognize the original story.

This is especially likely because your story is in Loving Wives, which is a shark-pit of nastiness. If you're catering to one of the camps who attacked you in the comments with the edits, you can almost bet that one of the other camps will hate the story now.

There's no winning in that category. If that's your kink, be prepared for the probability of low scores and nasty comments on everything you write. That's just the way the folks who read in that category are.

 

[sr71plt]

Yep, pretty much all of the statistics on the first posting can be credited to the story being in Loving Wives.

 

[Bramblethorn]

When you edit something, your edits are applied, and it doesn't appear on the new stories list again.

If you want to do a complete do-over, you have to delete the original submission, wait until it vanishes from your list, and then resubmit as a new story.

All this, and if you take this approach I recommend marking it as a resubmit. Otherwise readers may think "hey, I remember something like this, did they steal it?"

If you don't want to delete and resubmit, another way to get new votes is by posting a new story in the same category; readers who like it will then look at what else you've written. (And in LW, readers who hate it will go off to bomb everything else you've written...) But this won't get as many views as a fresh start.

 

[HCallahan]

New chapter - Should I delete troll posts?

Thank you very much. I am thinking that it is time to write part two. If I post that, then it will get new hits, and bring old hits to chapter 1.

Just making sure though - there is no real way to get more traffic to a story?

Follow up question: Should I delete the comments from the OBVIOUS trolls? I kind of like them, but I don't want to squelch good positive feedback from the rest of the readers.

What do you think?
Thx,
-H

 

[sr71plt]

The "should I delete nasty comments" is one of the perpetual questions posted to the forum and the responses are so widely divergent that they won't tell you much. So, you're safe to do as you like.

 

[RejectReality]

The "should I delete nasty comments" is one of the perpetual questions posted to the forum and the responses are so widely divergent that they won't tell you much. So, you're safe to do as you like.

What SR said, but I'll add that pretty much everyone knows about the nastiness of LW, and ugly comments there don't carry half the weight with your average reader as they would everywhere else.