karmadog, best wishes for Monday. 
karmadog said:
Dipped
Hm, I hope that your comment will not affect eventual reading of my poem by a participant/witness of this thread.karmadog said:
Check my profile for more titles. I don't feel obliged to have poems titled, but if there is a title it should be a good one.
Gentle reader, please disregard, clean yourself from and forget the above comment if and before U read my 'round....
This issue of small font in my posts was already raised by another person. I think I have resolved the mystery. I have my Internet explorer set up to the largest font. I think this results in the following: when I use the default Literotica editing window font, I get standard size (in pixels) on my screen, which translates into smaller size on the screens which have their browsers set to the standard viewing font size.
(it would take an effort to know it about the poems posted earlier since U would have to keep daily track of the "views", the system doesn't do it for U, what a pity for someone who likes numbers, progressions, statistics, trivia
Really?karmadog said:
I better submit my 2 from "Sexually explicit" thread and 1 from "Speak now or...".Is this board active and read enough to be a significant factor? Well, never mind the "views", the board is important for its own sake. I am thinking about starting threads with original and any translations, and with oriental poetry. Going back to our own poetry, it'd be nice to organize titles into themes. The reading of the poems would gain since poems exist not one at the time but in cycles. Even a chronological subdivision has a value. Then poems with similar style and topics tend to cluster together.
Thank U, KD, for good words. Some poets are strong and popular. My poetry never had mass appeal. Those who are on the same wavelength with me, and the strongest Internet poets and refined readers enjoy my poems, but altogether not that many people. Which is fine with me. I am happy when someone likes my poem but I would never change anything in my poems just to get it more popular. Of course a high number of "views" doesn't necessarily mean that readers like the poem. They click before they have read it
.There r so many factors that to some extent "popularity" must be random. Until now my poem * * * was never mentioned on this board, it has as unassuming "title" as possible, and nevertheless among my submissions it has the second highest view-score. True, in my profile it was positioned at the top, and now it's just after 'round the bed and under the walls. Yes, Judo, some characters precede "a"!
My simple remark should now revolutionize your title creativity! Thank U, Karmadog, for your kind words. I still have to resolve my font problem. I've submitted a few poems again via the Literotica editing window but for the last time. I set font in my window to middle size. Possibly I overreacted in the case of "willow girl (5 poems)", when I also had <font size=+1>. Now the font may be too large, like in the books for kindergarten. That would be awful :-( We will see soon, I hope.
Title "towel" sounds somewhat exciting only around a place like Literotica. If housekeepers formed a literary club, my title would sound plain to them, no?karmadog said:
What have I done? (I am sure I did). I was both serious and joking when selecting this title.
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Last night I submitted a poem titled "60 seconds" and this morning I could not find it. I finally found it under "sixty seconds." I know that's not a big deal, but I like the way "60 seconds" looked, and I thought using a number in the title would draw more attention. I never title my poems to purposely get them at the top. I have many that start with "W" lol But I liked my number! Anyway, I simply submitted an edited version. If you do that you don't lose any views or votes, Senna Jawa.Senna Jawa said:WE and KD, I am glad that this simple title "towel" made an impression.
Now I'd like to ask about something a little off topic. I have submitted [the main light...] but just now it got admitted but under a slightly different title(!):
the main light...
The brackets surrounding the phrase r missing. I enclose the title in such brackets to indicate that actually my poem has no title, that the phrase is but a part of the first line (or the total first line if there are no dots "...").
On a couple of occasions I forgot to include those brackets but this time I could see them in my view submissions window, until poem got accepted.
Now, do you know that we don't have a simple way to modify the title of a poem?! Or do we? Of course one can delete a poem and then to submit a "new" poem with the modified title. But then U'd lose continuity of all these fun games, views and votes.
Another aspect. I wouldn't change a thing in my poem just to affect the views or votes. Nevertheless, as Judo has observed, the position of the title among all titles on Literotica (and even among your own titles) is the factor which has the greatest influence on the number of views. A poem very near the beginning of the list will be viewed much more than one buried somewhere inside the list. The next factor is the one stressed by Karmadog, the attractiveness of the title. So, when two poems are near the top, then one with the more attractive title has a chance to overun in "popularity" the one in front of it. But it has to be very close to the top too, to get a lot of "attention".
After a little more than two weeks on Literotica I can already tell you that the second best place on the list is at the very end. It is much poorer than at the beginning, but clearly "better" than somewhere inside the list.
(Of course I am simplifying things a bit).
Just musing
WickedEve said:
, then I don't have to).
