Not voting

[LargoKitt]

The votes pile up when the story is on the new lists. Once they drop off the traffic dries up. I just posted a new story a couple weeks ago. Before that one published I had gone two or three months without a single vote on my entire catalog (11 stories). My oldest story has had maybe 1 vote in the past year-and-a-half. I have 2 stories that have less votes now than they did in say January. Most, if not all, of my stories go weeks if not months between single votes. Don't worry, You're normal. ; )

This does puzzle me. I have been posting here for years, and hot, cold, whatever category, if it has several thousand views it would have many votes. I lose the logic of people only voting on new stories. There are so many stories here that stuff posted fifteen years ago is new to me. I will explore a category I haven't before. Best course is look at the favorites of an author I like, or of people who like or comment on a story of mine. What is new is irrelevant unless I love a series. Don't really care about contests (unless maybe I am in it.)

 

[LargoKitt]

This is quite similar to me. I don't like leaving lower scores that might hurt a story's rating if I think it may be a matter of my personal likes or preferences, so I'll skip in such cases, thought I'll occasionally leave a hopefully helpful comment about some point without voting. However, as far as I remember, I've never favorited without leaving a vote.

Regarding the all-time lists, 100 votes is the published minimum to be included, but it can be less than this in less-frequented categories such as Letters & Transcripts.

This raises an interesting scenario: That a few people, early on, love a story enough to tip it into 'hot', but then dozens of other readers say, "What? Not so much." And don't vote at all because they don't care to trash the existing enthusiasts' ratings. I know, don't bother your brain with speculating. Just write good stuff.