Volunteer Editor Icons

[Panty Wrangler]

Hi,

What do the icons beside VE listings in the the Editor's Search page mean?

https://www.literotica.com/my/#/editors/editors

The last one that looks like a globe is obviously location, but the first looks like a page, then there's one that looks like a single person, and then a group of three.

I didn't see any key describing these and I get nothing when I hover my mouse over them. I'm guessing these may tell something about the number of things an editor has edited or something along those lines, but it's really not clear.

 

[_Lynn_]

Hi,

What do the icons beside VE listings in the the Editor's Search page mean?

https://www.literotica.com/my/#/editors/editors

The last one that looks like a globe is obviously location, but the first looks like a page, then there's one that looks like a single person, and then a group of three.

I didn't see any key describing these and I get nothing when I hover my mouse over them. I'm guessing these may tell something about the number of things an editor has edited or something along those lines, but it's really not clear.

It's quite clear on the link you gave.

What you said looked like a page tells how many submissions that person has.
The single person indicates how many followers they have.
The group of three, as you described it, is how many authors that editor is following.
And yes, the globe is where they're from.

 

[Panty Wrangler]

It's quite clear on the link you gave.

What you said looked like a page tells how many submissions that person has.
The single person indicates how many followers they have.
The group of three, as you described it, is how many authors that editor is following.
And yes, the globe is where they're from.

Thank you! That's very helpful.

Can you clarify about the number of submissions. Is that how many documents they're currently editing, or how many they've finished? I'd hope it's the latter!

I'm confused though why you'd say it's it's quite clear on the link I gave. I followed that link again just now and am still unable to see anything that would give that clarity.

At the risk of finding out I've begun to go blind and will need to curtail reading on this forum I've attached images for what I see when I follow that link. One for the top of the page including all of the side bar on the left, and the other for the bottom half of the page including all of the footer.

What am I missing?

 

[jsmiam]

I’m betting the OP is using a mobile device. The accompanying text isn’t visible there. Just the way many phone versions of websites are.

 

[jsmiam]

I thought so, too, but the photos they posted above show the words next to the icons.

Aha! Definitely quite clear.

I’ll admit to icon overload myself now and then though, same for emojis, so I can understand where the OP is coming from. The first screen was like, a whole click away!

 

[Panty Wrangler]

Both of you are correct. I sometimes use my iPad, and sometimes my laptop.

For me the terms works, followers, and following seemed a bit ambiguous. For example Erozetta said this

It's how many titles they've submitted to Lit themselves.

I had thought it meant that too, but when I poked around I found there were editors with non-zero numbers of works who had zero stories of their own when you looked at their profile. So scratch that.

Perhaps it means works in the sense of how many things they've edited, but honestly how would Lit know?

In my first story I reached out to a number of VEs, got one hit and went with them. The editor gets an email from Lit that I've sent, but that email tells them to reply directly to me. and lit is not involved after that. When I submitted that story I did credit the editor in the body text, so maybe they're picking the data up that way. Seems like a lot of work for the SEs to dig through submissions and pull out these metrics.

My second chapter is at this same editor now, but that happened without any interaction with lit since the VE and I were already in contact.

So, what does Works really mean? Perhaps it's the number of stories they've edited - which would be very useful information; but how would Lit even know this? The editor doesn't submit the story.

Regarding Followers and Following, those terms are again ambiguous. I'm following a bunch of authors and a number of people are following me, but I'm not an editor. So the relationship seems ambiguous at best. Those terms definitely mean something different in other parts of Lit.

The one non-ambiguous part is the globe, which I acknowledged as such in my first post.

Sorry to go on so long about it, but I really think it could be clearer. I'll take this up as a suggestion for the site. Perhaps they could add tooltips or a legend or even make the icons work as links to lists of stories they've edited, authors they're following and authors following them?

Cheers!