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1427 out of 1451 stories have a rating less than 4.5, or 98.3%That's hilarious. A red H is what, 97th percentile?
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1427 out of 1451 stories have a rating less than 4.5, or 98.3%That's hilarious. A red H is what, 97th percentile?
That's mind-boggling. So the coveted red H is, overall, a sign of mediocrity? But I'm not constantly reading 4.5+ stories and thinking, meh, about average. And certainly it's not been my experience that every other story I see has the red H.4.5 rating is 53rd percentile
I was thinking about plotting story ratings and realized that I'd probably want a nonlinear scale. People care much more about the difference between 4.4 and 4.5 than they do about 1 vs 2. By the time you get into the rarefied 4.9s, people probably care about hundredths. (I assume. It's not as if I have any stories there.)
I know we have some nerds around. Anyone want to talk data visualization with me?
Maybe plot ln(6 - RATING) ? That seems pretty good: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=log(6-x) About half the scale would be 3.3 and up, a quarter for 4.35 and up.
Thoughts?
No great explanation. To do a decent job of digging, I'd need to categorize 23K stories as to stand-alone, chapter 1, chapter 2+, and series starter (a story that starts a series but doesn't have any designation as a chapter 1). I'm spending my time writing and editing stories right now. When I get bored of doing that, I might do that categorization. Do you want to volunteer to do it?That's mind-boggling. So the coveted red H is, overall, a sign of mediocrity? But I'm not constantly reading 4.5+ stories and thinking, meh, about average. And certainly it's not been my experience that every other story I see has the red H.
Do you have any explanation for why my perception disagrees so strongly with apparent reality? E.g., are there subsets of stories that inflate the average? Forgiving categories, highly-rated series, etc.?
How would you recognize this? (What data do you have about each story?) Would I have to fetch each story's first page and scrape the series info box?a story that starts a series but doesn't have any designation as a chapter 1
No great explanation. To do a decent job of digging, I'd need to categorize 23K stories as to stand-alone, chapter 1, chapter 2+, and series starter (a story that starts a series but doesn't have any designation as a chapter 1).
In my vampire series, The Sacrifice Tales, I use the brief description field to give the number of the story so people can follow along in order. That reminds me, I haven't put up a new part in forever.No great explanation. To do a decent job of digging, I'd need to categorize 23K stories as to stand-alone, chapter 1, chapter 2+, and series starter (a story that starts a series but doesn't have any designation as a chapter 1). I'm spending my time writing and editing stories right now. When I get bored of doing that, I might do that categorization. Do you want to volunteer to do it?
Edit: I forgot - The stats are for 28 days after the story is posted. Ratings rise over the first 30 days, so red H's will be rarer when the stories are on the hub. More stories will get red H's as they age.
How would you recognize this? (What data do you have about each story?) Would I have to fetch each story's first page and scrape the series info box?
Here's the information I go through:How would anyone know its the first chapter if you don't tell them?
I do my best to bring this up whenever possible
A second chapter gives the game away.How would anyone know its the first chapter if you don't tell them?
A second chapter gives the game away.
The first down I classified stories, I considered Starter Stories to be Stand-Alone stories. I assumed that someone wrote a story, got encouragement to keep writing about the characters, so they made it into a series. But I see so many series that start that way that I can't help thinking it's an author strategy to get around the 1/3 less views that chapter one stories get.It might, but if the story is in chronological order, I'd be nice to be searching for the Just Another Fuck Chapter One that is only labeled Just Another Fuck. I know, on a series, sometimes you don't know it's a series until the character comes back to you. But if it is a preplanned book laid out in chapters, I've never seen an index that calls chapter one nothing at all.
I often do that. It sure would be helpful if in the lists (new, top rated, etc), there was a link to the series included under the link to the specific chapter.They go back and read to that point to continue on, but as a general rule, you lose more than you gain.
I often do that. It sure would be helpful if in the lists (new, top rated, etc), there was a link to the series included under the link to the specific chapter.
That, and my perennial wish, that word count or pages was included on the lists.
Hey, I can help you out there!I don't think I've ever even seen a story with less than 3.0 average.
A man can dream, can't he?Good luck with any of those things happening.
A man can dream, can't he?
You've not read anything by me, then. I have several first chapters that aren't chapter numbered. Sometimes because the idea for sequel came along later, but mostly because I did name a chapter one, once, but never wrote the second chapter. So I've avoided repeating that trap, by not chapter one-ing unless the whole thing is written (or at least, enough to get by).It might, but if the story is in chronological order, I'd be nice to be searching for the Just Another Fuck Chapter One that is only labeled Just Another Fuck. I know, on a series, sometimes you don't know it's a series until the character comes back to you. But if it is a preplanned book laid out in chapters, I've never seen an index that calls chapter one nothing at all.
You've not read anything by me, then. I have several first chapters that aren't chapter numbered. Sometimes because the idea for sequel came along later, but mostly because I did name a chapter one, once, but never wrote the second chapter. So I've avoided repeating that trap, by not chapter one-ing unless the whole thing is written (or at least, enough to get by).