The Anomaly called Loving Wives

[Comshaw]

I don't have an opinion on what you experienced, but I do have an opinion on the appropriateness of that category for the story you described.

Some people expect cheating, some people expect BTB, some people expect RAAC, and if a LW story isn't even going to have any of those, then I for one would expect it to at least have what's on the category description:



Yes, I get that the category's title is "Loving Wives," but a story about a loving wife with no extramarital content at all is not in the spirit of the category in any way, not even in the off-label way which has come to comprise most of the content there.

I'm not surprised that that crowd appreciated the story, I just think it should have been somewhere else.

I'll grant you it probably should have been in another category. But it wasn't and the readers seem to enjoy it even if some didn't think it fit.
KittyOfSteele expressed what it feels like to me, "It's like the audience of LW are not looking for cheating..." The ones who commented on the story seem to bear that out.

That said, it doesn't explain why the vote to views were what they were. Was it because it was a 750-story, a 2-minute read? Or something else? After checking the other two 750-word stories I wrote for that challenge, the one I put in Mature had 6748 views and 323 votes for a 20.89 vote to view ration. The second one I put in Erotic Couplings. It had 7912 views with 175 votes for a ratio of 45.11. That's a significant difference. That's what has me puzzled.


Comshaw

 

[KittyOfSteele]

I understand what you're saying, but I interpret the data differently.

Obviously, you can't do this with Anonymous, but if you look at the named accounts, I believe I've seen a pattern. On stories like this one with a true loving wife, they comment positively about the lack of cheating. However, if you look at their comments on stories with cheating wives, they don't attack those stories for having a cheating wife. They either praise the story for how they dealt with the cheater, or they lambast it for letting them get away with it.

So, yes, they don't like cheating wives. However, from my analysis, it's not the cheating that makes them dislike a story, but what happens after the cheating.

Still, you can't deny the weird and confusing vibe shift.