How many AH'ers

[StillStunned]

Why is it always the left one that gets sacrificed? What did that poor lefty do to anyone except maybe hang just a bit lower than the other?

Low-hanging fruit.

 

[TheLobster]

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

Can we do a Lit Sesame Street Story?
How old are the Muppets?
Would it go under non-human?

ONE LW Story in pending AHHH-AHHH-AHHH (In my best Count voice).

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

Putting links in the signature is not how the true pros do it. You don't wanna be like Wanda, do you?

Only in every way imaginable... Duh...

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

I'd give both his nuts, and one of yours.

I'd give both of mine, but I'm trying to do that anyway so it sort of diminishes the sacrifice...

 

[StillStunned]

I'd give both of mine, but I'm trying to do that anyway so it sort of diminishes the sacrifice...

I'd sacrifice mine, but I'd have to get them back from the redhead first.

 

[M_K_Babalon]

Can we do a Lit Sesame Street Story?
How old are the Muppets?
Would it go under non-human?

ONE LW Story in pending AHHH-AHHH-AHHH (In my best Count voice).

A lot of them on Sesame Street are under 18, actually.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

I'd sacrifice mine, but I'd have to get them back from the redhead first.

You just need to wait until she's asleep and steal the key to the little box on the mantle. Easy, right?

 

[StillStunned]

You just need to wait until she's asleep and steal the key to the little box on the mantle. Easy, right?

I suspect it would be more akin to Bilbo sneaking into Smaug's lair.

 

[Kelliezgirl]

A lot of them on Sesame Street are under 18, actually.

So, we can't ship Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch?

Think of all the rotten eggs jokes...

 

[YmaOHyd]

I suspect it would be more akin to Bilbo sneaking into Smaug's lair.

It... ends with you being unimaginably wealthy and happy for the rest of your days while all the costs are born by someone else?

 

[SouthernCrossfire]

Hi, all! Along the lines of what iwatchus said, I'm one of those who's mostly "temporarily away" at the moment, dealing with some family health issues recently that have required a lot of out-of-state travel and slowed my writing and my AH time, but I peek in when I can.

So far this year, I've published 8 stories and hope to finish one more by year end if time allows.

 

[lovecraft68]

This question has come up, so I decided to count the horse's teeth.

I looked at the number of unique commenters during November thus far at ten long running threads that were on the first page of AH earlier today.

169 of us have commented on those threads. I can think of a few people who were not in that selection. Given the random selection of threads, people who may be temporarily away, etc. I would guess 200 is the number of people who comment. Many people lurk. I have no way to reasonable estimate that.

I may go see how many stories that 169 people have written.

My guess is that in a given year, the publishing authors amount to something like a few thousand people who written more than one story.

AH is certainly not the majority of all authors, but we are not a trivial percentage of the writing either.

There are 732,000+ stories on this site. The forum is a small part of that number.

I think 169 posters sounds high, I'm not sure how far back those threads go but thinking many have come and gone because the regulars here-as in post at least weekly- I doubt is close to 100

Then you have alts, the existing ones, and ones that have been blown up.

I'm still thinking we're a small sample size of this site.

 

[KittyOfSteele]

169. Nice. Very fitting for Lit.

 

[SmilingLez]

There are 732,000+ stories on this site. The forum is a small part of that number.

I think 169 posters sounds high, I'm not sure how far back those threads go but thinking many have come and gone because the regulars here-as in post at least weekly- I doubt is close to 100

Then you have alts, the existing ones, and ones that have been blown up.

I'm still thinking we're a small sample size of this site.

To me the simplest way to prove or disprove the 100-169 established authors would be to have a dedicated thread where a literotica published author would just reply "yes", and after a certain length of time just count how many people replied

 

[PennameWombat]

This question has come up, so I decided to count the horse's teeth.

I looked at the number of unique commenters during November thus far at ten long running threads that were on the first page of AH earlier today.

169 of us have commented on those threads. I can think of a few people who were not in that selection. Given the random selection of threads, people who may be temporarily away, etc. I would guess 200 is the number of people who comment. Many people lurk. I have no way to reasonable estimate that.

I may go see how many stories that 169 people have written.

My guess is that in a given year, the publishing authors amount to something like a few thousand people who written more than one story.

AH is certainly not the majority of all authors, but we are not a trivial percentage of the writing either.

There are 732,000+ stories on this site. The forum is a small part of that number.

I think 169 posters sounds high, I'm not sure how far back those threads go but thinking many have come and gone because the regulars here-as in post at least weekly- I doubt is close to 100

Then you have alts, the existing ones, and ones that have been blown up.

I'm still thinking we're a small sample size of this site.

I've never tried to count the number of unique posters on AH. What I have done on a few occasions is captured the "New Stories" list for a week or so and counted the number of unique 'authors' (per Lovecraft, not accounting for alts where the same author posted under two or more handles). Last time I included that here was this post in the "Is Lit on autopilot thread?" (Yeah, I'm one of those stats nerds, mostly just for my own entertainment. I'm not aware I've ever posted to anyone "don't worry about views, ratings, etc.")

Anyway, the times I've captured that info, it worked out to somewhere between 100 to 150 unique author names that'd posted per day, with 150 to a bit over 200 stories released each day. I regularly found that a small number of authors would've posted 2, 3, up to 4 stories in the period.

The relevance to this thread is that when I've captured that data, of those 100+ authors, I found very, vanishingly few of them had posted here on AH. Although I'll admit I didn't go deep into the back history of the forum. Alas.

Again, all snapshots irregularly collected so statistically limited. If we 'discount' the one-offs who pop into here to drop a random rant, it just seems we're a small group when compared to "Lit Authors". I could say a small, select, awesomely attractive and erudite, group, but that'd be going too far.

 

[iwatchus]

There are 732,000+ stories on this site. The forum is a small part of that number.

I think 169 posters sounds high, I'm not sure how far back those threads go but thinking many have come and gone because the regulars here-as in post at least weekly- I doubt is close to 100

Then you have alts, the existing ones, and ones that have been blown up.

I'm still thinking we're a small sample size of this site.

That 169 posters is only for posts in November in a handful of threads (I think I had 8 threads) I know of several regular posters who I missed in that sampling and I have seen three more people just later to today. I really think the number of active posters is close to 200 for this month. And I have no reason to suspect this month is exceptional in any way.

I guess I should check the total number of stories written by us.

 

[ChloeTzang]

Lies, you've never done Erotic Horror.

Buzzzzzzzzzzzz.

LOL

84 stories on LIT over 10 years - and a number of those are chapters in longer stories......I am not exactly prolific but a lot of my work is novella or novel sized. I do not hesitate to post 100k word stories LOL. And I like LIT because it lets you do that, unlike some other sites.

 

[Britva415]

Why is it always the left one that gets sacrificed?

The left one is lower hanging fruit.

 

[onehitwanda]

Lies, you've never done Erotic Horror.

Is that a challenge?

 

[AwkwardlySet]

Is that a challenge?

Definitely. But you have to incorporate neck licking.


I'll even suggest a character. Wanda the Wight who haunts a lonely hill manor (with a great wine cellar!)

 

[onehitwanda]

Definitely. But you have to incorporate neck licking.


I'll even suggest a character. Wanda the Wight who haunts a lonely hill manor (with a great wine cellar!)

I'm more a Bian Sidhe than a Wicht, especially once I've got some uisge beatha in me.

 

[AwkwardlySet]

I'm more a Bian Sidhe than a Wicht, especially once I've got some uisge beatha in me.

Well, if the wight isn't working for you, you could maybe be the medusa with the big boobies, like the one on the image I linked some time ago.

 

[Bamagan]

Well, if the wight isn't working for you, you could maybe be the medusa with the big boobies, like the one on the image I linked some time ago.

That sounds like a comical character. Can't turn anyone to stone because their eyes never drift high enough, yet most of the men who meet her become rock-hard. A very frustrated villain.

 

[onehitwanda]

you could maybe be the medusa with the big boobies