Popular Authors

[Jay142]

How does Literotica determine Popular Authors in each category? I've written stories in one category that will get over 10,000 views in one day but I'll show up as a popular author in another category but not in the one I posted to.

It's not a big deal. I'm just curious.

 

[KeithD]

I've never quite figured it out. And I'm not sure it's working in the new iteration of the hub. My pen names have usually been on the list in the primary category I write in--from sheer volume of entries, I think--but since the new hub was instituted, the seven and thirty-day listings have been dropped altogether and, at least in my primary hub, the authors shown as currently the most popular don't write much in the category at all. I'm assuming it's just screwed up.

 

[SimonDoom]

I wonder about this, as well. I assume it's based on views in a category within a certain period of time, but it's difficult to tell exactly what it means.

 

[Jay142]

From what I've seen, a lot of the Popular Authors in each category have written a lot of stories which gives them a better chance of having more readers each day, week, month.

I've wondered if I write a popular story in one category, I may not be a popular author there but the story may lead to people reading some of my other stories in different categories. That seems unlikely but the only thing that makes sense to me.

 

[tomlitilia]

Wasn't there also some list with the 1000 (?) most followed authors? Can't find it now.

 

[KeithD]

Wasn't there also some list with the 1000 (?) most followed authors? Can't find it now.

It's a top 250 authors list. It's been hiding behind a "coming soon" feature for a decade and a half at least, just one of several loose threads on the site.

https://www.literotica.com/stories/favoritesportal.php

 

[NotWise]

It's a top 250 authors list. It's been hiding behind a "coming soon" feature for a decade and a half at least, just one of several loose threads on the site.

https://www.literotica.com/stories/favoritesportal.php

What's broken about that?

Using the new interface, drop down the "Explore" menu from your user CP and select "Favorites." That produces a page of favorite stories which can be expanded to 250. On the right side of the page is a list of favorite authors, and that, too, can be expanded to the top 250. It's the same list that KeithD linked to above, but in a different format.

 

[vanmyers86]

How does Literotica determine Popular Authors in each category? I've written stories in one category that will get over 10,000 views in one day but I'll show up as a popular author in another category but not in the one I posted to.

It's not a big deal. I'm just curious.

I knew each category had a hall of fame for the top-scoring stories, but I had no idea they also have most popular authors lists. Where do you find them?

 

[NotWise]

I knew each category had a hall of fame for the top-scoring stories, but I had no idea they also have most popular authors lists. Where do you find them?

I've never found a "most popular" authors list by category. If you drop down the "Explore" menu on your user CP and select "Authors" it takes you to lists of authors; New authors, Random authors, Most Productive authors and "In the Spotlight." I have no idea what "In the Spotlight" means.

On the right side of the page there's a list of categories, and you can get similar lists of authors for each category, but none of the lists are "most popular."

You can get a list of "Favoritest" authors off the Favorites hub, but that isn't broken down by category.

 

[horrorotic]

I knew each category had a hall of fame for the top-scoring stories, but I had no idea they also have most popular authors lists. Where do you find them?

Go here

https://www.literotica.com/stories/

Click on story by category and scroll down, at the bottom right there is a list of popular authors.

There are tabs for the day, week, and month.

 

[KeithD]

What's broken about that?

It's been arrived at from a "sneak peek" click-on on the homepage for the last fifteen years and more. Until recently, it was also referred to as a "soon to come" feature--for at least fifteen years--at which time it became even more difficult to find. You can decide not to consider that a "broken" problem if you like. On this thread a regular poster had to ask whether it existed and, if so, how to get to it.

 

[KeithD]

Go here

https://www.literotica.com/stories/

Click on story by category and scroll down, at the bottom right there is a list of popular authors.

There are tabs for the day, week, and month.

In my new look, there no longer are tabs for week and month there--you have to click on more authors, which brings up the old hub look before you can get that week and month information. Also, as I noted elsewhere, at least in the category where I post most, the "popular authors" now listed in hub are authors with very little, comparatively to other authors, actually written in that category.

 

[NotWise]

Go here

https://www.literotica.com/stories/

Click on story by category and scroll down, at the bottom right there is a list of popular authors.

There are tabs for the day, week, and month.

Ah, I see, but I'm not getting the day, week and month tabs. I have a "more authors" link, and that takes me to the list of authors, where there's no "most popular."

I looked at Romance. The "Top Romance Authors" looks like it's probably based on the author's number of followers, but it isn't ordered that way. I checked some of the authors' catalogs, and they all had something in Romance, but in some cases it was only 3-4 stories.

Maybe if you have a gob of followers and one story in a category, then you can appear on the category's "Top Authors" list.

 

[horrorotic]

In my new look, there no longer are tabs for week and month there--you have to click on more authors, which brings up the old hub look before you can get that week and month information. Also, as I noted elsewhere, at least in the category where I post most, the "popular authors" now listed in hub are authors with very little, comparatively to other authors, actually written in that category.

I wasn't aware I was somehow using an older version?

As for the popular authors and you saying they don't have many stories. is that what popular is based on? Is it quantity or quality so to speak? When I say quality I don't mean in the sense of how well written, but how was it received?

if some authors posted less stories, but they had big numbers in views and votes and comments isn't that what makes it popular?

I'm guessing that would at least effect the recent stories, the longer it goes back the more number of stories might help skew it.

I think we're all guessing a little because I've been reading here under different names for over 10 years and the site has never been forthcoming with the formula that makes an author hit the popular list.

I'm sure that's to avoid manipulation.

 

[horrorotic]

Ah, I see, but I'm not getting the day, week and month tabs. I have a "more authors" link, and that takes me to the list of authors, where there's no "most popular."

I looked at Romance. The "Top Romance Authors" looks like it's probably based on the author's number of followers, but it isn't ordered that way. I checked some of the authors' catalogs, and they all had something in Romance, but in some cases it was only 3-4 stories.

Maybe if you have a gob of followers and one story in a category, then you can appear on the category's "Top Authors" list.

Can you post that link so I can click it...I don't know why I still have the old version.

If activity is what effects the author list then top list stories no matter how old still get a lot of favs and that could be driving it. Meaning its literally what's popular, not based on number of stories or scores or things like that

 

[KeithD]

I wasn't aware I was somehow using an older version?

As for the popular authors and you saying they don't have many stories. is that what popular is based on? Is it quantity or quality so to speak? When I say quality I don't mean in the sense of how well written, but how was it received?

if some authors posted less stories, but they had big numbers in views and votes and comments isn't that what makes it popular?

I'm guessing that would at least effect the recent stories, the longer it goes back the more number of stories might help skew it.

I think we're all guessing a little because I've been reading here under different names for over 10 years and the site has never been forthcoming with the formula that makes an author hit the popular list.

I'm sure that's to avoid manipulation.

Yes, I would think that being popular in a category would require producing a significant number of stories in the category, not just getting high scores--or even views (whatever that means)-oin three or four stories in a category with ten thousand stories in it.

But what is at the Web site is what is at this Web site. I think that the amount of jockeying and comparison going on here of what's going to get authors at the top of "something or other" on a free-read site is just silly.

 

[NotWise]

Can you post that link so I can click it...I don't know why I still have the old version.

If activity is what effects the author list then top list stories no matter how old still get a lot of favs and that could be driving it. Meaning its literally what's popular, not based on number of stories or scores or things like that

I'm not sure what link you're talking about. Here is the Romance Hub. The link is to the beta version, and I'm not sure what that will look like if you aren't signed up for beta testing.

 

[NotWise]

I tested the idea that the popular authors lists by category are based on followers and you qualify for the category list by having anything in the category.

I think silkstockingslover has more followers than anyone. I went through her catalog and checked the popular author list in every category where she posted. If I was right, then she should be on every list.

I wasn't quite right. She was on the most popular list in almost every category she published in (which is a lot of categories), but not in all of them. The ones she missed are categories (EC and MindControl, for instance) where she has a very short list of stories.

Maybe you need a minimum of three stories to qualify for the list. I haven't checked back, but I think that's consistent.

 

[horrorotic]

I'm not sure what link you're talking about. Here is the Romance Hub. The link is to the beta version, and I'm not sure what that will look like if you aren't signed up for beta testing.

Oh, beta, okay that's why I still see the original way.

 

[horrorotic]

But what is at the Web site is what is at this Web site. I think that the amount of jockeying and comparison going on here of what's going to get authors at the top of "something or other" on a free-read site is just silly.

You say its silly-and I agree, I mean yeah, look at "me" I'm number one at something on a free site with easily manipulated statistics...

But on the other hand what's silly to some is a big deal to others so if people want to strive for or obsess over, whatever makes them happy.

Doesn't matter one way or another, its just too bad the site never makes anything clear that could cut off a lot of wheel spinning discussions.

 

[ElectricBlue]

As for the popular authors and you saying they don't have many stories. is that what popular is based on? Is it quantity or quality so to speak? When I say quality I don't mean in the sense of how well written, but how was it received?

The one day, seven day, and thirty day "most popular authors" are those with the highest score story (with Views a secondary sort, maybe), in the period since the story went up. So it's a ranking only against other stories in the same category in the same period - a variation of your fifteen minutes of fame - that is all.

It's pleasing to get into those lists, because they do drive traffic to your story.

 

[horrorotic]

The one day, seven day, and thirty day "most popular authors" are those with the highest score story (with Views a secondary sort, maybe), in the period since the story went up. So it's a ranking only against other stories in the same category in the same period - a variation of your fifteen minutes of fame - that is all.

It's pleasing to get into those lists, because they do drive traffic to your story.

Scores, okay, it makes sense popular story = popular author.

 

[KeithD]

Oh, I don't believe that the most popular list in a hub is based on the highest scores for that period. For over a decade one of my accounts has dominated one hub list (well, until the recent system changes) and its stories never were the best scoring ones. It had at least one persistent troll hanging off its scoring. It was, however, the most prolific one.

I'm not all that interested in how the list is made up, but I can pretty easily see some of the ways it's not made up.

 

[horrorotic]

Oh, I don't believe that the most popular list in a hub is based on the highest scores for that period. For over a decade one of my accounts has dominated one hub list (well, until the recent system changes) and its stories never were the best scoring ones. It had at least one persistent troll hanging off its scoring. It was, however, the most prolific one.

I'm not all that interested in how the list is made up, but I can pretty easily see some of the ways it's not made up.

For someone who says it is what it is, and its silly to care, you're very focused on the topic and seem to feel slighted you're not on it.

The site is more a popularity contest than judge of writing quality. It's kind of like an America's Got talent scenario where you'll see people with amazing talent bumped off because the people vote based more on 'I like their look, or I feel bad for them" then who is the best.

I wouldn't sweat not having your name on a list here. The popular authors are making the goose egg the not as widely read authors are.

 

[JJA122]

I don't think I've even looked at such a list.