What should "Overall Most Popular Stories" mean?

[Phoenix]

Hi Captv8td,

I'm interested to find out that as the author of "To Obey" you're saying I've used unfair means to get the story to it's number one placing on the list?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but my story has a lot of chapters in it and the themes strike a cord with many readers. Perhaps that might be simply be a good enough reason why the story is popular. Sure it hasn't got the highest rating of 10/10 but 8/10 isn't bad either.

Don't get me wrong here, I've read your stories and I do enjoy them. And when your stories get up to the amount of work that I've put into my stories, then you'll get ratings in the popular / best rated / etc lists.

I've been writing To Obey since before 2001. That's nearly a good five years of work on one story. I've noted that you've only submitted your stories at the start of this year. Come on Captv8td, give your stories a chance to grow and develop before expecting little achievements like most popular, etc.

I fully expect I'll be knock off as top dog some day in the future. But until then, I feel like I deserve the top honor at the moment. And when the time comes to give credit to the next top dog, you won't see me whining. I know how hard it is to write stories, and whoever takes over number one, I know they would have earned the honor through blood, sweat and many many spelling mistakes.

Okay, I've said my piece. I'm kicking the soapbox over to the next person.

Firebird

[Nikita]

This thread needs to be bumped.

Could you give us an update on how the Quick Story List, i.e., highest rated, most voted, recent popular, overall popular are rated?

I've been looking at the Quick Story List statistics, the overall ratings, number of readers, and they don't jive with what Tiger says below.

Tiger The script counts the number of readers to each story and the stories with highest count will be in the "Overall Most Popular Stories". The "Recent Popular" is determined by the counts of current month.

The reader is counted only when he/she clicks in a chapter or the full text page. Seeing the reviews or synopsis pages will not be counted. A reader from the same IP address in the same day will be counted as 1.

How could a visitor cheat? He can read the same story from different computer (so different IP), or he can disconnect and re-establish internet connection if he has dynamic IP setting from ISP. He can also "write a totally nonsensical story and title it "Lesbian Snuff Queens Captured By Mind Stealers and Given to their Great Danes". But that story may not be posted at all. And the readers won't read it again the next day. If some reader is kind enough to notify me, that story will be gone very soon.

Considering 15,000 unique daily readers (they acturally read some story), the cheater will have hell a lot of work to do.

The stories can also be listed according to the ratings. It's hard to combine the story clicks and ratings to get a overall score, unless someone can come up a reasonable way to calculate.