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BrokenSpokes
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That’s pretty normal. Most of my series has 200-250 or so ratings, and have anywhere from 7-15k views.
My Halloween contest sorry has 450 ratings on 18k views.
ElectricBlue
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A rough rule of thumb is one vote per hundred views, one comment per thousand. The reader response varies between categories, quite significantly. 1540/65 is a very high response ratio - 1 in 24.
More importantly, with that number of votes, is your score. If it's high, you're doing well, if it's low, you're being punished. It's a good turn-out, but what are they saying?
More importantly, with that number of votes, is your score. If it's high, you're doing well, if it's low, you're being punished. It's a good turn-out, but what are they saying?
SimonDoom
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The average view:vote ratio for my 25 stories is about 90:1, but it varies from story to story. My "best" ratio is about 54:1, while my worst ratio is about 180:1. Yours is unusually low, which means that an unusually high percentage of people who click on your story are actually finishing it and voting on it.
The ratio can be the product of a number of factors:
Category -- readers of different categories are different. Loving Wives readers tend to be more responsive readers than others.
Story length -- short stories are more likely to be finished and therefore voted on. Your story is very short, which probably accounts for much of the fact that the view:vote ratio is so low.
Reader reaction -- a good ratio may be a sign that people find your story appealing right away and therefore are willing to finish it. OR, as is the case with my story with the lowest view:vote ratio, they hate it so much that they are motivated to give it a bad score. This is a problem in Loving Wives, in particular.
There's not much correlation between the ratio and story quality, overall, I've found.
The ratio can be the product of a number of factors:
Category -- readers of different categories are different. Loving Wives readers tend to be more responsive readers than others.
Story length -- short stories are more likely to be finished and therefore voted on. Your story is very short, which probably accounts for much of the fact that the view:vote ratio is so low.
Reader reaction -- a good ratio may be a sign that people find your story appealing right away and therefore are willing to finish it. OR, as is the case with my story with the lowest view:vote ratio, they hate it so much that they are motivated to give it a bad score. This is a problem in Loving Wives, in particular.
There's not much correlation between the ratio and story quality, overall, I've found.
ElectricBlue
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Agree this - and it's very dependent on category, I reckon. It's odd that readers of different categories would display category specific voting behaviours, but they seem to.
What a high voting turn-out does do, obviously, is confirm the consensus on the score being given (once you're up above thirty votes or so). The main maths is still the number of votes behind the score they're giving you.
gordo12
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Yes they are. In Loving Wives my stories run around 1/15 - 1/30 votes/views. Not uncommon for several thousand votes on a story. Not uncommon for hundreds of those votes to be nasty people voting their mental issues, not the story. They do disappear in the sweeps. Still, they affect your overall scores until that is done.
However, that's when the story is new. I've noticed as they age the voting and comments drop down to almost nil so your average vote/views slowly rises over time.
@ 1/24 with 4.37 you're doing fine!
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