Since I never really expected to actually BE in this position, now I'm curious about something.
Downloads per week is pretty obvious.
Recent Top Scores is pretty obvious.
Most popular isn't. I'm just wondering how that formula comes into play. That's just not for my own story, but Axeman and Suddenly Rich Kid aren't on that list, either. How does that formula work?
The site keeps track of how many separate posts has been made to a serial. Popularity is how many downloads divided by how many separate posts.
The downloads per week list is manipulatable by making more short chapter posts per week to get more downloads. I created the popularity list to remove that element.
At the bottom of the page:
Stories appearing in this list are Serials (in progress or completed] updated in the last 30 days sorted by popularity (most readers]
Lazeez's post confirms what I was going to speculate about 'popularity'