Recently popular list

[Seanathon]

Hi,

My first attempt at Erotic Poetry was posted on Jan 26th and has two votes so far. I checked the recently popular list for it and didn't see it listed there. I was just wondering if a poem has to accumulate a minimum number of votes before it will appear on the list?

http://www.literotica.com/p/metamorphoses

Thanks for any info!

 

[Angeline]

Hi,

My first attempt at Erotic Poetry was posted on Jan 26th and has two votes so far. I checked the recently popular list for it and didn't see it listed there. I was just wondering if a poem has to accumulate a minimum number of votes before it will appear on the list?

http://www.literotica.com/p/metamorphoses

Thanks for any info!

Hi and welcome to the forum. If by recently popular, you mean the "Top Lists," there are two ways to get on there. One way is by the number of votes you get over time: if your submission accumulates enough votes, you will be on the "Most Read" list. You'll note though that you need lots of votes to get on there. The top most-read poem at Lit has over 300k votes.

Another way is to get the most number of the highest votes, which is the "Reader Voting" category. If you look at that list you see the rating and, in parentheses, the number of votes the poem has. So there you can get on the list with relatively few votes, but they have to be high votes.

There's a lot of general info about all this on the Lit FAQ page.

Nice sonnet, by the way.

Hope this helps.

 

[HarryHill]

you were lucky to get two votes imo just saying

 

[Seanathon]

Hey Angeline,

Thanks for the reply. The list I am referring to is on the actual Erotic Poetry page.

http://www.literotica.com/c/erotic-poetry

The list is on the right hand side of the page (below the Contest Winners and Recent Comments lists) and shows recently popular poems from the past day, 7 days, and 30 days and I was just wondering what Literotica's criteria to appear on that list is?
I assumed it was vote score, but my sonnet doesn't appear on the page so I am thinking there must be a minimum number of votes required.

Thanks again for the reply, and the welcome!

 

[Angeline]

Hey Angeline,

Thanks for the reply. The list I am referring to is on the actual Erotic Poetry page.

http://www.literotica.com/c/erotic-poetry

The list is on the right hand side of the page (below the Contest Winners and Recent Comments lists) and shows recently popular poems from the past day, 7 days, and 30 days and I was just wondering what Literotica's criteria to appear on that list is?
I assumed it was vote score, but my sonnet doesn't appear on the page so I am thinking there must be a minimum number of votes required.

Thanks again for the reply, and the welcome!

Yes, I agree. You could always pm Laurel or ask one of the volunteer editors here--in fact the Editors Forum would be a great place to ask this. It's probably 10+ votes = popular. Lit puts an H (for Hot) next to your title when you get 10 votes in a certain time (24 hours, I think).

 

[Seanathon]

you were lucky to get two votes imo just saying

Why is that? Don't poems get many votes?

I find that with the stories I have written on the site, I usually get about one vote for every hundred views.

And I assumed that with poems being so easy to digest, compared to a five-page story, they would get a higher percentage of votes. With my sonnet, I have received one vote for every twenty five views.

 

[Angeline]

Why is that? Don't poems get many votes?

I find that with the stories I have written on the site, I usually get about one vote for every hundred views.

And I assumed that with poems being so easy to digest, compared to a five-page story, they would get a higher percentage of votes. With my sonnet, I have received one vote for every twenty five views.

Poems here get nothing like the number of reads that stories do. And very few people read new poems here. It has always been that way...

 

[bronzeage]

Why is that? Don't poems get many votes?

I find that with the stories I have written on the site, I usually get about one vote for every hundred views.

And I assumed that with poems being so easy to digest, compared to a five-page story, they would get a higher percentage of votes. With my sonnet, I have received one vote for every twenty five views.

Stories are read by many people.

Poems are only read by poets.

 

[Tsotha]

Stories are read by many people.

Poems are only read by poets.

I recently told a friend that being a poet is only really "cool" if you're the lead singer in a band. And even then, writing lyrics is just something you have to do (after rocking and taking drugs, I imagine).

 

[Angeline]

I recently told a friend that being a poet is only really "cool" if you're the lead singer in a band. And even then, writing lyrics is just something you have to do (after rocking and taking drugs, I imagine).

I've tried to explain this, too. If I wanted to be "cool" I'd never pick poetry because a) it is too much work and b) no one cares.

 

[HarryHill]

I recently told a friend that being a poet is only really "cool" if you're the lead singer in a band. And even then, writing lyrics is just something you have to do (after rocking and taking drugs, I imagine).

I've tried to explain this, too. If I wanted to be "cool" I'd never pick poetry because a) it is too much work and b) no one cares.

...

 

[Senna Jawa]

Who reads what?

Stories are read by many people.

Poems are only read by poets.

CORRECTION: Poems are only read by the contributors to the New Poem Recommendations thread.

 

[ishtat]

One consolation for Seanathon is that the comments/views ratio for poetry is much higher than it is for prose. Unfortunately that is based on very few comments, and very few views. I actually have one poem for which the number of comments exceeds the number of votes - and I like that - even if both are only in single figures.

The best thing about the poetry board is that there is a fair amount of comment on the literary quality of material submitted. There is almost none on the AH for example. And before I get jumped on, I know that much of the comment is pretty superficial, but at least it exists, and the best is very helpful.

And on the poetry board, poets actually try to help other poets become better, and that makes them almost unique at Lit.

 

[todski28]

I recently told a friend that being a poet is only really "cool" if you're the lead singer in a band. And even then, writing lyrics is just something you have to do (after rocking and taking drugs, I imagine).

Damn all my hopes and dreams shattered in a single message

 

[Tsotha]

Damn all my hopes and dreams shattered in a single message

Yes, yes... All these dreams spread under my feet, and me having fun jumping on a pogo stick.