Yup! I just googled it. I used to watch all the old SNL skits on YouTube (now, showing how young I am, I guess!). Either way, I would always watch them and really only see Gilda. The character names were pretty much irrelevant to me. It was always Gilda!
What!?!? In the contest, you won with 4.9x and now, eight months later, it's at 4.52? You must have a ton of die-hard fans that just pummeled your entry with 5s!!! My contest entries are always right around my usual scores (or a little lower) and then VERY slowly creep up from there over the course of months.
Mine is still managing a 4.81. Every time it creeps back up to 4.82 it gets another vote or so within a short period of time that drops it back to 4.81. But it's also got 609 votes, so it's getting harder to raise and lower the score by much.
To describe three metrics briefly:
Favorites seem to be split between actually really liking a story and saving it to read later.
You've hit the nail firmly on the head!
It’s early in the process so don’t worry about it for now; the “sweeps” are appropriately named like sweeping with an old broom. You don’t pick up all the dust without going over an area a few times, so you’ve lost three now but that doesn’t mean more won’t be found in another pass later. Good luck!
Then you have comments = sing your praises or torch you!
Favourites are a classification of reading list so
means that your story is on 31 reading lists of which (AFAICK) 14 are favourites - oh and there are 4 comments!
The favorites list is often used by old-timers for a reading list. It's a carry over behavior from before reading lists were a separate thing here. So the 14 favorites could actually be any number of a mix of actual favorites and favorites lists being used as a placeholder reading list because they either don't know how to make a separate list, or can't be bothered to.
Don't number of followers matter? Whether or not someone rated, favorited, reading listed, commented, if they read your work and decided to follow you, that's the real number, I think.
Today’s update (I think the winners are announced tomorrow):
They can, but then you have people who follow literally hundreds of authors. Those people are unlikely to actually see when the authors they follow put out new stuff as every update to a bio and new release will flood their feed and things get pushed off before they can even see it. A follower with under 100 other authors on the list is a better metric as they are being selective in who they follow, so they are more likely to see the updates of the authors they follow and care about those updates.
I don't always know what to make of comments.
Unless they're following you to hate on all your stories. KeithD used to claim that happened, and it seems inevitable that someone would do it. Also, people can follow you instead of adding your story to a reading list and then un-follow you when they're done reading.
Well a nice little sweep just happened and I lost about 20% of my votes. Speaking of trolls lol
