readers who favorite your stories but don't rate it

[NuclearFairy]

Was the info dump square?

I'll go back into hiding...

It was more of a rectangle.

 

[stickygirl]

(Emphasis added in quote.)

No, most likely not. The issue is that readers can favorite a story to add it to their personal favorites list, or they can "add it to a reading list," (bookmark it) which for them collects stories into a list. I have three different lists I add stories to, some for reading purposes, others because I want to later look more closely at the writing.

But on our author dashboards, all of this shows up as "<Profile> has added your story to Favorites." We don't get a differentiation. In addition, reading lists are private, so when you look at a profile, you don't see their reading lists. Only the Favorites. This just happened today. I received "<Profile> has added your story to Favorites" for my story Carole at Dinner, but I have stats from a few days ago. The number of Favorites is the same, but the number of "added to reading list" has increased by one. I can only differentiate by tracking the stats.

If you download your statistics from the dashboard, you can see the difference. The stats separate out "Favorites" from "Added to Reading Lists."

In addition, if you look at the first page of any of your stories[1], you'll see counts for both favorites (the heart) and for "added to a list" (the 'book' icon). For instance, my story Carole at the Art Lecture has 13 Favorites and has been added to 17 reading lists (these match with the stats I downloaded today.) All of those were "added to Favorites" notifications.

[1] I use the "new" beta display setting (is it still Beta? Been a long time.) If you use the "Classic," I don't know if the view is the same.

Well now I know!

Then the description we see could be "<Profile> has added your story to a list." ? You've not acknowledged that when a dunce like me sees a notification for Favourite there's a certain logic in checking the reader's Favourite list. Happily I'm not an author that spends much time wringing my hands over stats, but like everyone else, I would appreciate a better level of communication from the site management.

 

[loic333]

My apologies, for several years I bookmarked stories I wanted to read later, not realizing you could use the bookmark feature with "to read later." However, as soon as I'd finished reading them, I'd write them down. A fault confessed is half redressed!

 

[Ianus4]

In an ideal world, every reader would rate and comment on a story, and those who favourite it would give 5.

The world is not ideal.

In an ideal world, approving a comment consisting of just two words would not take longer than approving an entire story. In an ideal world, I would have time to read and think through the ten or so stories that appear every day that I find interesting, and honor the author by writing a slightly more complex opinion about the story than just two words.