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TheDarkKnight ๐Ÿšซ

I was bored this morning, so I started doing some math. (Calm down, I said math, not meth). Anyway, not sure how this compares with others, but I discovered that the average number of votes for my stories is 136. The highest is 406 and the lowest is 20, which is what prompted me to find the average.

I started posting 20 years ago, but after 10 years, I hit a bump in the road that kept me from posting for about 10 years. Came back about a year ago, and I've been very active since then. Making up for lost time, I guess.

And over all that time, I have received the grand total of 65 comments, so I don't seem to excite or annoy many readers. That seems to be in line with my scores, which always seem to hover around 7, give or take a few tenths.

Different topic, as I said, I had no activity here for ten years, yet when I came back (thanks to Lazeez for reactivating my account), I was surprised to see that some of my stories were still being viewed. That makes me wonder how readers stumble across old stories.

Replies:   Switch Blayde  jimq2  irvmull
Switch Blayde ๐Ÿšซ
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@TheDarkKnight

That makes me wonder how readers stumble across old stories.

Random story on home page.
Results from a Category Search.
Someone finds one of your stories, likes it, and goes to your author page to find others.

Replies:   AmigaClone
AmigaClone ๐Ÿšซ
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@Switch Blayde

Random story on home page?
Results from a Category Search?

A third source might be the "Story Recommendations" portion of this forum.
I have noticed an uptick in downloads of older stories when I have posted a new story or chapter.

Replies:   Switch Blayde
Switch Blayde ๐Ÿšซ

@AmigaClone

I have noticed an uptick in downloads of older stories when I have posted a new story or chapter.

That was my third item. In traditional publishing, there's a saying: "Novels sell novels."

jimq2 ๐Ÿšซ

@TheDarkKnight

At the top of the home page is one "Random story from the archives." I end up reading more stories from the archives than I do from the rest of the home page. Then I look at other stories by that author. Many of the random stories are from authors who are no longer posting.

irvmull ๐Ÿšซ

@TheDarkKnight

I find most of the good stories by reading the CRS requests here.

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