How many people bother to vote for your story?

[Lying Eyes]

Wondering what is an average amount. Does it vary depending on what genre the story is in? I would assume long stories get less votes as some people dont have the patience to read the whole thing. Just curious on what is normal behavior at literotica.com

Hmmm... I dont think the words normal and Literotica fit in the same sentence.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Wondering what is an average amount. Does it vary depending on what genre the story is in? I would assume long stories get less votes as some people dont have the patience to read the whole thing. Just curious on what is normal behavior at literotica.com

Hmmm... I dont think the words normal and Literotica fit in the same sentence.

Hi, Slick.
I have started keeping track, just out of curiosity, and it is .2%. That is one vote per 500 views, but you have to remember that a "view" is not somebody reading the story. It might be somebody who glanced at a story and decided not to read it. That .2% is for me; for others it is certainly different. The best I have ever done is .86% on a non-human story. Otherwise, the genre, for me anyhow, doesn't seem to make much difference. The longest stories I have written, one novella and two romances, seem to do better as a percentage but they get far fewer views than short stories.

 

[Icingsugar]

It seems to be that, generally, categories that attracts fewer readers have a higher vote ratio. The prime example of this would be poetry. Poems gets very few reads, maybe 100 to 200 in the opening week. But those gets a handful of votes, well over 2%. Sometimes over 10%.

The "regular" categories (Couplings, First, Wives et al) attracts the most casual browsers and thus the least interrested readers.

Best vote and feedback ratio so far on a story for me was in Sci-fi. Worst in Couplings.

 

[SadieRose]

Views vary according to category.

When I moved stories from Gay Male to Erotic Fiction the view levels dipped noticeably. The older GM stories get around about 11 to 15 votes for 5,000 - 7,000 views. But they are generally good votes

 

[Lying Eyes]

Intresting...

I thought I was having few votes but since I am now at 178 votes to 23600 views I am getting .75% which is not bad.
Though I really prefer to get lots of feedback. If someone thinks its a 3 and another thinks it deserves a 5 then I'm more intrested on why they believe this.

 

[herecomestherain]

I've been wondering too...

I had a story go up a few days ago and I've been wondering the same thing about the voting numbers. It's a longish story at 7000 words, in the Erotic Couplings section, to date I've had 10 positive and encouraging feedback emails, 5 public comments, 7200 views and 40 votes and one response to a new story listing post.

I've noticed that I'm getting a few more views for a non fiction piece I posted to the How To section back in November, possibly as a result of the new story listing?

Out of all of that, I'm most delighted with the written feedback of course, it's nice to know you've actually made a connection with someone and that they perhaps feel something for the characters you've created, or that that they just thought it was hot.

slicknhb I'd be blown away if a story of mine reached 23000 views. WOW.

 

[dreaming_lilith]

From the english stories...I have .7% on the most read one (1735 views), and 0.4% on the least read one (1380 views). But they have only been up a few days so might not say much yet.

Ive gotten about 10 feedbacks sent to me tho.

 

[PDumbledore]

Mine varies. The highest I have had is .8% of the readers voted. It all depends on the catagory.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Vote numbers vary from 42 to 232. Reads from just over 9000 for the 42, to over 23000 for the 232.

You must have very active viewers. I wish I did. Although the number views is not particularly high, the percentage of voters is. .45% for one and 1% for the other.

 

[The_old_man]

Vote numbers vary from 42 to 232. Reads from just over 9000 for the 42, to over 23000 for the 232.

 

[Wildcard Ky]

I had two stories posted on the same day. Here's the numbers as of today:

Story 1. 18,437 views. 107 votes. Category: Interracial

Story 2. 941 views. 9 votes. Category: Romance

Both stories were posted on the 13th. I guess this shows the disparity you can have in numbers of views versus categories.

 

[RobHammer]

30 votes out of 5441 viewings for an Erotic Couplings story that went up today. 2 public comments and no email feedback.

73 votes out of 22916 viewings for a Group Sex story that went up 6 days ago. No public comments and 1 anonymous email feedback.

 

[Lying Eyes]

Re: I've been wondering too...

slicknhb I'd be blown away if a story of mine reached 23000 views. WOW.

Try writing a lesbian story. They seem very popular.

I liked your How to story "Weapons of Mass Seduction", great title!!!

 

[curious2c]

I hardly ever look at the vote amounts anymore. I will scan them, usually looking at the total reads and being amazed. (of course some reloads and double hits...but still...damn.

 

[herecomestherain]

Thanks Slick, quite liked that title myself, part of me kind of wishes I'd saved it to use on something a bit more clever than that little, first, coy foray into writing. I'm thankfully not so shy anymore.
I've got lovely folks sending me detailed analyses of my characters and their motivations. Too beautiful!