So how does this 'portal' work?

[lovecraft68]

Just curious as to how this fairly new portal or hub or whatever you want to call it works.

http://www.literotica.com/c/taboo-sex-stories

This is the incest portal and the list I have near the bottom is recently popular authors for the last 1,7, and 30 days . I am near the bottom of it on the 7 day page and probably because I posted two stories this week. My question is what do they go by?

the reason I am asking is that there is a very popular incest series running now that even 20 chapters in is still getting 800 plus votes and of course because it is a series the ratings are in the 4.8's. Chapter 20 posted a week or so ago and has 47 comments been Favorited on quite a few pages has almost 800 votes and is number one in the last 30 days.

He is nowhere on this list or the one for 30 days (he has released 2 chapters in that span equally successful) so with all this how is he not on this list? What the hell are they going by? I do see Scouries on there which confuses me further, as it is supposedly recently popular, and I think he has barely posted anything in the last 8 months yet always shows up. Anyone have answers?

 

[Zeb_Carter]

If you click on the link at the bottom of that frame ... More Popular I/T ... it will take you to a separate page that will list all the popular stories for those three time periods.

I think the only criteria is score and date submitted.

 

[lovecraft68]

If you click on the link at the bottom of that frame ... More Popular I/T ... it will take you to a separate page that will list all the popular stories for those three time periods.

I think the only criteria is score and date submitted.

I did that and his story shows up in the story list for the last 30. My thing is how is it not listed in the recently popular for thirty what criteria are they using for that?

 

[sr71plt]

I haven't seen it explained. But from watching my own placement on such a list, it has something to do with being favorited as an author and perhaps in combination with stories being favorited. Being favorited as an author is a definite element, however.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I did that and his story shows up in the story list for the last 30. My thing is how is it not listed in the recently popular for thirty what criteria are they using for that?

Ah...Recently Popular is a random selection of stories recently submitted. The key word here is RANDOM.

 

[lovecraft68]

I haven't seen it explained. But from watching my own placement on such a list, it has something to do with being favorited as an author and perhaps in combination with stories being favorited. Being favorited as an author is a definite element, however.

You maybe right there. I tossed out a mother/son story a couple of weeks back that got me put on a bunch of fav's pages and the story itself on about 15. I also came out with 2 chapters of my series(according to the last 30 days of recent activity I've been put on close to forty pages) so maybe it is recent "traffic"

 

[sr71plt]

Ah...Recently Popular is a random selection of stories recently submitted. The key word here is RANDOM.

Since I'm usually at the top of one of those category lists in spite of having my stories zapped to lower ratings, I've researched what puts me there. It's related to the favoriting. Nothing random about it.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Since I'm usually at the top of one of those category lists in spite of having my stories zapped to lower ratings, I've researched what puts me there. It's related to the favoriting. Nothing random about it.

On that portal page, the Recent Popular frame is just stories that have been submitted today randomly selected to display.

When you click on the more popular link, you get a list of the most popular according to score and number of days since submitted.

 

[sr71plt]

On that portal page, the Recent Popular frame is just stories that have been submitted today randomly selected to display.

When you click on the more popular link, you get a list of the most popular according to score and number of days since submitted.

Read the OP again. The question was about the listing in the bottom right of the portal page--popular authors, with 1, 7 , and 30 day lists.

You are answering a quesiton not asked.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Read the OP again. The question was about the listing in the bottom right of the portal page--popular authors, with 1, 7 , and 30 day lists.

You are answering a quesiton not asked.

Nope that's the frame I mean.

 

[alwayswantedto]

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[sr71plt]

The Popular Authors (last on bottom right) is ranked according to number of views.

This is explained by Lit. where, please?

And, no, I don't think the Popular Authors is a ranking from views. That doesn't match my research of what is driving that list. I still believe it is from the favorite votings.

Maybe Darkinaid knows and will weigh in on the question.

 

[sr71plt]

Nope that's the frame I mean.

You obviously are still wandering around confused on what the actual question was--because your answer doesn't fit the "popular authors" listing at all.

 

[lovecraft68]

This is explained by Lit. where, please?

And, no, I don't think the Popular Authors is a ranking from views. That doesn't match my research of what is driving that list. I still believe it is from the favorite votings.

Maybe Darkinaid knows and will weigh in on the question.

If it were based on views then the author I am mentioning would surely be in there under one of the list (1,7,30) that is why I am curious as to what drives this. The guy who has had the number one incest series on lit since September including a chapter that won the October contest has NEVER hit this list since it has been started. My series gets a fraction of his views and votes yet I have hit it several times. Which is the other reason I was curious about it.

 

[sr71plt]

If it were based on views then the author I am mentioning would surely be in there under one of the list (1,7,30) that is why I am curious as to what drives this. The guy who has had the number one incest series on lit since September including a chapter that won the October contest has NEVER hit this list since it has been started. My series gets a fraction of his views and votes yet I have hit it several times. Which is the other reason I was curious about it.

If it were based on views, I wouldn't pretty consistently be at the top of the GM author list for popularity on the full range of cuts, 1, 7, and 30 days. Because I'm a niche writer in that category. Others posting GM stories are getting loads more views than I am. I've been keeping track, and when I go down/off the list it's been periods in which I wasn't being favorited. When I get favorited a couple of times I zip right back to the top of those lists.

 

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[sr71plt]

Yeah, it could be favorites. I assumed it was views without looking at it closely.

I think the clincher for me was that my cowritten pen name here, Shabbu, has appeared on the list occasionally, and the story file for that is small and none have been posted in that name before. But whenever that author is favorited, the name briefly appears on the "today" list.

 

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[sr71plt]

Looking at the Popular Authors list in the portal, I'm not convinced it's based on just favorites either. Otherwise, why wouldn't RGJohn, one of the most favorited authors on the site, and continuing to be so, not be near the top of the list? On the other hand, he has some of the most read stories which should also put him on the list if it was based on views. Confusing.

I think the listing is from what he did in relation to others in the previous day/previous seven days/previous thirty days. My observation is that if you aren't favorite today--and others in your category are--you aren't going to be at the top of the one-day list (and so on).

I don't think that either story views or even votes gets you on that list. I think you have to be favorited. I've been keeping an eye on what makes this tick in one category since the page was instituted.

If you think otherwise, do some research and report your evidence and findings.

(And, although I agree that rgjohn is one of the better writers on this site, his last posted story was in January and he's only posted four stories in the last four years. I think most of the reading/favoriting is done from the "New" list.)

 

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[sr71plt]

I did do some research. I chose this author because he is very heavily favorited and watched his growth in favorites over several days in the category in which I mainly write and in which most of his popular stories are. He gained as many favorites as I but never appeared on the popular list whereas I did. He did appear in a Popular Author list in another category, so it is possible that the lists track the favorites based on the category of the story from which the favorite action is initiated, but I would find that an overly complicated way of doing things.

You say you have done some research and have presented an opinion on how the list works, or at least how it doesn't work. Perhaps you could document your method too and together we might reach a better understanding.

Re the bolded sentence. Yes, I've assumed all along that this is what is happening--and it's logical and it supports my finding. Of course the portals would be category specific. They are indexes to that category. So it's logical they'd only cover the stories of an author in that category.

As far as my observations--which I've already noted. From day one of the portals, I have been listed at the top of the seven- and thirty-day "Popular Authors" list for GM--and usually at the top of the "today" list too. Yet my stories are typically bombed below Hot even when other GM stories aren't. And my GM stories don't get the views being given to most other GM stories posting at the same time. And yet, I'm habitually at the top of the "Popular Authors" list in the GM portal and others aren't. When I am favorited as an author for a GM stories, my ranking on the "today" list goes up the next day. When I've gone a few days without being favorited as an author, my name goes off the "today" list (it as yet has never gone off either the seven- or thirty-day lists). This yo-yoing isn't affected at all by either the voting or viewing of my stories.

Ergo, it's not the votes or the views that's putting me at the top of the GM "Popular Author's" list--it has to be the favorating. Which is logical anyway.

And I've followed this from day one of the portals.

So, you can believe what you will. I invite anyone else to check it out themselves. Or the site management can provide the formula for this. I don't see any reason why they wouldn't.

(Incidentally, I have been studying this as evidence that my personal story trolls are skewing the natural popularity of my stories--which, if favoriting keeps me high on the "Popular Authors" list, seems to help prove.)

 

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[sr71plt]

So it seems that the Popular Author list works on the number of favorites an author collects within the time period (today, 7 days, 30 days). This is what my findings suggested (though I found it hard to believe) and also what your more lengthy investigation found. Is this it, then? That suggests that RGJohn is not collecting many favorites from his Taboo stories and I confess I find that hard to believe? (BTW, I never thought the list had anything to do with votes.)

The site's formula may be more Byzantine than this, but this is what it looks like to me.

It very likely is that those playing frequently on the "New" list are being read by newer readers--who are only looking on the New list, and, therefore, those playing frequently on the New list might be more likely to attract "favoritist" votes. RGJohn's now-rare story posting may work against him on the "popular" list.

I think I get more views and better ratings on my non-GM stories, but I doubt I play on the Popular Arthor's list of any of those categories because I don't appear that often on the New list with these stories.