A story of mine has finally reached 200 kudos! And it was not the story I would have expected, possibly a year ago. My top three stories have inched up kudo by kudo, but "The Bridge" (third place at one time) began inching up a little faster than the others.
Last summer, I updated a previous Milestone post when "The Bridge" tied for first place with "Our Daughter's Prom Date". "The Bridge" continued inching up faster until it was ahead by five points at 199. Then it hit 200. (Meanwhile, "BB: A Boy's Visit" seems to have stalled unchanged at 185.)
"The Bridge" still has fewer than half the hits of the other two, although it is over 3000 hits.
Comments
Congratulations!
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Yay!!!
It’s always great to see people continue to read and appreciate our older stories!
— Emma
I just don't get it
Your stories are wonderful Daphne, congratulations!
What I don't get is how 3137 people have read your story, but only 200 hit the 'Thumbs Up' button. Did the other 2937 readers think it wasn't worthy? Silliness!
Nevertheless, thank you for all of your wonderful stories. I can't wait to read your contest entry! :DD TAF
DeeDee
200 Kudos Is a Good Number
Like you DeeDee, I struggle to understand how a person can read a story and fail to leave a kudos.
Jill
Angela Rasch (Jill M I)
You have completely misunderstood the hit and miss
sorry should have been hit and kudos system.
You can only give kudos once. Well, you could try to do it twice but that's rather counterproductive.
However, you can very well (and be perfectly justified to) read the story 15-16 times.
Right You Are
The longer your story ages, the lower the ratio of kudos to hits. At least that's been my experience.
Nice to believe that this is largely due to multiple reads.
Jill
Angela Rasch (Jill M I)
Wow!
Thanks a lot, all of you!
I hope that I can finish a contest entry in time. I have begun one, an idea I had well before the contest was announced. I was able to shoehorn a New Year's resolution into the story.
-- Daphne Xu (a page of contents)
That's a great ratio
I make it to be 0.06%. my best kudoed story on has a ratio of 0.007%, congratulations.
Hugs
Patricia
Happiness is being all dressed up and HAVING some place to go.
Semper in femineo gerunt
Ich bin eine Mann
The story is a hundred times as good as that
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Important secret revealed
The secret how to get people to read your old stories (and sometimes push that nice kudos button) is to post new stories, LOTS of them.
More Secrets
Comment on other authors' stories and they will comment on yours.
At the end of your story, ask people to leave a Kudo. In the process, thank them for reading your story. This is like a waiter writing "Have a great day!" on your bill. . .generating larger tips.
Write to a formula. 1.) Young protagonist. 2.) The protagonist is trans, not "JUST" a cross-dresser. 3.) The protagonist affirms her decision to transition. 4.) And the protagonist lives happily ever after.
Or, write a good story, which happened in this case. A story that wasn't miss-understood.
Jill
Angela Rasch (Jill M I)
Formula extra.
For some reason dress codes is a safe card.
Don't ask me why but they are.
I'm Not Jealous
I'm not! I'm not!
Well done, you! In fifteen years of posting stories here I've never, NEVER, scored 200 kudos. I'm not jealous, really!
Sorry to Hear That.
Maybe it will happen eventually. "The Bridge" was sitting at 199 kudos for a while, before finally pushing through.
Recently, I've had trouble reaching 100 kudos. My most recent posted story to surpass 100 kudos was posted nearly three years ago: "Still Another Dress Code". Bru's comment about dress codes has a certain truth. That story shot up over 120 kudos immediately, and then inched up another 25 or so after. A few old stories (and parts) have inched over 100 more recently.
Then I have a few stories with kudos still in the teens.
-- Daphne Xu (a page of contents)
A Terminological Inexactitude
It seems I lied! I hadn't looked at My Stories recently and while my gaze was turned away, one of my older stories, GRANNY, had somehow accumulated 253 kudos.
I can only surmise that it was given a boost by all the recent attention inspired by the New Year's Contest.
Truly, I wasn't jealous of you. My tongue was firmly in my cheek. It is great to achieve 200+, and pretty rare.
So now I'll take my foot out of my mouth.
Joanne
Nah
Nah, you didn't lie. You didn't know. Congratulations!
The strange thing about my 200+ kudos (202 last I checked) was that the story had somewhat over 3000 hits. It wasn't my story with over 7000 hits, or over 15000 hits.
-- Daphne Xu (a page of contents)
Sorry. I have this 'personal glitch' in my brain ...
After {mumble} years here I still have great difficulty going from "Author and Name-of-Story" to the story and read it.
I even have a hard time going from "Name of Author" to the Author's story page.
I almost always have to resort to the Search page, wading through thousands of hits and not-the-story-but-a-blog-post and similar titles before I can find it.
Direct links (URLs) work far, far better for me.
So, if somebody tells me I should read Alan's Creepy Mansion [1] ... I'll be there in about 10 minutes.
But, if somebody tells me I should read:
https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/97657/creepy-mansion,
I'll be there before I can move my mouse-hand to my coffee.
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Annnd, the final score is: Links 10,042, Alan -2.
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[1] Shameful self-promotion ...
Links
What happens if someone directs you to Alan's Creepy Mansion? Do you see the difference between that and Alan's Creepy Mansion? Perhaps when you hover your mouse over it?
-- Daphne Xu (a page of contents)
I was so effing pleased . . .
. . . when Teek taught me how to do that. :)
— Emma
How to do what?
I always have trouble when directed to an authors page because it doesn't list their stories. :(
DeeDee
How I do it
There could be better explainations but here is how I do it.
In the "text" field of the entry form at "Add a story" I write the text that will become the clickable link. I mark it. I click on the earth globe (insert/edit link) button. I insert the link at the indicated field. Not very complicated when you get used to it.
In the story/blog the text with the link will have another colour than the other text as demonstrated by Daphne.
Milestone Updates
The Bridge reached 240 kudos. John's Living Nightmare, with its gargantuan hit level, reached 200 kudos, the fourth story to do so.
I finally, after much stalling and procrastination, posted the final part of A Bikini Beach Late Summer. It went over like a lead balloon, I'm sorry to say.
My reorganization may have made it harder to find my stories. There's always a page of contents, and I hope to remember to update it whenever I post a new story or part.
-- Daphne Xu (a page of contents)