Holy carp. I'm popular?

[all_ways_bi]

I have 2 stories hold at 4.92 for over a week. I never knew there was a most popular list (s) till recently. I can't find my stories in any top anything list. Popular to me might also mean most viewed? I guess that list is some place.

So it's not just the score it's also number of votes. Both are just over 60 votes. 18.6 k and 12.2k views.

What's the criteria?

 

[iwatchus]

I have 2 stories hold at 4.92 for over a week. I never knew there was a most popular list (s) till recently. I can't find my stories in any top anything list. Popular to me might also mean most viewed? I guess that list is some place.

So it's not just the score it's also number of votes. Both are just over 60 votes. 18.6 k and 12.2k views.

What's the criteria?

There are several different lists. If you go in the category of interest, the first section is new stories and the second is popular stories. Without clicking the blue "More Popular --- Stories" bar at the bottom, you can choose 7 day, 30 day and all-time lists. These are only 10 stories long and a little flaky and have little to no minimum votes, meaning they shift constantly.

If you click the bar at the bottom, you will see very different looking list. There are 30 day and 1 year lists, with I think 10 vote minimums. The overall time has a 100 vote minimum. New stories pop in regularly when they pass that vote mark, before they get 1 bombed off the front page usually.

I hope this helps.

 

[TheWritingGroup]

Shouldn't that be "We're popular" ? Catfish confirmed!

No, I (Annie) wrote that story. The person (or persona, my name is not "Annie") posting. Eddie, Rocco, and Billie were readers, but didn't write it.

--"Annie"

 

[CalBishForNow]

This is why I stay away from LW.

I have enough insecurity about the quality of my writing that I don't need to get depressed even more by such a low score.

It's up to you, of course, write and publish wherever you feel like. But the infamous LW readership has bothered me less than I would have expected. More here, here, and here.

 

[DEFCOM5]

It's up to you, of course, write and publish wherever you feel like. But the infamous LW readership has bothered me less than I would have expected. More here, here, and here.

It is not just the toxicity of the category.

I don't read LW story because wife sharing is not something I find interest. It is the same with T/I and BDSM.

So I am playing in the smaller ponds. I have done mainly R/NC to get viewership. It is kind of like selling out but I am trying to create a following so I can write other stuff.

 

[ChloeTzang]

This is why I stay away from LW.

I have enough insecurity about the quality of my writing that I don't need to get depressed even more by such a low score.

LW isn't for the neophytes.

Best only go there when you have developed a "fuck 'em all" attitude. Speaking from experience LOL.

I enjoy dabbling there now and then.

 

[iwatchus]

It is not just the toxicity of the category.

I don't read LW story because wife sharing is not something I find interest. It is the same with T/I and BDSM.

So I am playing in the smaller ponds. I have done mainly R/NC to get viewership. It is kind of like selling out but I am trying to create a following so I can write other stuff.

I will say, in my one unplanned foray into LW, the toxicity was much less than I expected. But I have no interest in the arena and certainly not the community. I have a few other categories that hold no interest. I always want a strong emotional bond as the basis --T/I, MC, R/NC are probably no gos for me. Although I could end up with one of those. On a lark, I wrote a T/I story that I might submit as a second (joke) entry for the winter contest (Santa's Lap). Not sure if I want to actually publish or not.

I have only written one story there, but BDSM can offer the emotional connection that I am looking for. But that one story has by far the least interaction of any story I have written. Good rating (4.8) but only twenty votes and three comments. On 6K views.

So I would not call BDSM a big pond. And R/NC is a bigger than average pond, although it is one of the ones that dropped notably between 2018 ad 2023

 

[AwkwardMD]

No, I (Annie) wrote that story. The person (or persona, my name is not "Annie") posting. Eddie, Rocco, and Billie were readers, but didn't write it.

--"Annie"

I was totally kidding, and my bad if it got taken seriously.