On vote watching. What is probably really happening behind the curtain...

[ShelbyDawn57]

Well, not to contradict you, but SciFi & Fantasy is actually a very good category when it comes to feedback.

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And all this even if I have tags and warnings about femdom that, judging by the feedback from the first time around, is offputting to many readers who like high fantasy, heroic MCs, and such. So all things considered, it's a decent response considering the size of that category. But write a dominant male MC harem-breeding-isekai or such, or some juicy futanari series, and you can get much more than what I got.

Got to agree with Awkward on this one. My series isn't doing too bad. I just need to kick the author in the ass and get that third chapter out, as there are at least two more after it.

 

[StillStunned]

Time to write D&D erotica then, I suppose.

Dwarves and gnomes in the high mountains. "Dicks & Dirndls".

 

[VallesMarineris]

Actually we can't see that. Other combinations (e.g. 22 x 5* + 14 x 4*) gives the same result for Ch2.

Not saying that you have not been 1-bombed, just that the numbers don't show it.

Sorry if I wasn't clear. I was checking daily and sometimes more often, so I saw each time the counter incremented, almost always by one. So, for example, when the score went from 5.00/5 to 4.33/6 I could tell that someone had given me 1 star. I've been doing that for these stories from the day each was published. I saw the 1-bombs happen.

 

[Cagivagurl]

I think it's important to note.
Some people will read and dislike for whatever reason, and they may vote with a 1.
It's not always malicious. Sometimes, it just presses the wrong buttons.
I have posted stories I thought would maybe do okay to find that mostly, all I did was antagonise a few readers.
That's OK. I know just because I liked it. Not everybody will.
The important take away is. Did you as the writer enjoy writing it?
If the answer is yes, then you're already a winner.
High scores are a nice to have, but they rarely tell the whole story....

Enjoy your writing.

Cagivagurl

 

[TheLobster]

I must be doing something wrong

You don’t have 1600 followers like @ShelbyDawn57.

Or 600+ followers like @AwkwardlySet, who are there mostly for the SF&F because that’s the majority of his catalog.

Instead, you have 400 followers spread over a diverse sampling of categories. Only a portion of them is interested in your fantasy stories; others just want you to write another episode with Sally.

 

[StillStunned]

You don’t have 1600 followers like @ShelbyDawn57.

Or 600+ followers like @AwkwardlySet, who are there mostly for the SF&F because that’s the majority of his catalog.

Instead, you have 400 followers spread over a diverse sampling of categories. Only a portion of them is interested in your fantasy stories; others just want you to write another episode with Sally.

Very true. Of my 436 followers, 400 are there just for Sal. She's probably feeling quite smug about that.

 

[Bazzle]

I have 151... sob sob sob

 

[Writer61]

Sorry if I wasn't clear. I was checking daily and sometimes more often, so I saw each time the counter incremented, almost always by one. So, for example, when the score went from 5.00/5 to 4.33/6 I could tell that someone had given me 1 star. I've been doing that for these stories from the day each was published. I saw the 1-bombs happen.

Fair enough.