I looked through some old posts about milestones and kudos, and found this one of my own from 4.5 years back: https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/blog-entry/62570/milestone. It seems almost quaint, talking about pushing over 100 Kudos and such. My latest off-dashing, Still Another Dress Code, posted last Tuesday, zoomed up to 100 Kudos in a couple days, and is now at 126.
It will also be the first story to reach 2000 hits since Billy's Bad Day, (currently at 2222 hits). The previous off-dashing, What Happened?, hasn't done as well, perhaps because of its uninspired title.
My top and third-highest Kudo stories are in the 5000s of hits -- recently 180 and 170 Kudos. The second-highest, The Bridge, has about half those hits -- last I checked, half the third-highest plus three. The fourth highest, The Family Council, just recently surpassed 4000 hits.
I have no idea what's up with fifth-highest Kudos (just surpassed 130) and 13.5 kilohits.
Down at the opposite end, my experiment in running my least popular story through Dissociated Press (inspired by the blog post Writing Schmiting, in which an author is requested to reorder the words in her story) briefly reached a milestone of ten Kudos before backing down to nine.
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now I know
Now I know what to read. I need to read that one you call your least popular story. Then go on from there.
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... and shameless self-promotion. Nice to see'm succeed a little. Sorry, just joking.
I had hopes that running that story through dissociated press might improve the reaction -- if for no other reason than the giggle value. It also destroys most of the revolting material. In fact, the giggle value is the only remaining virtue of the text. I think that dissociated press worked something like this:
Begin with the first word. Decide whether to continue with to the next (high probability). If not, randomly select a word that follow this in the text. Repeat until programmed to stop. In this case, it led the second and third paragraphs to partially repeat:
It begins with random but surprisingly grammatical and perhaps even meaningful text, hitting the trap door and falling to Lady ZogMyrf. The rest of the paragraph remains intact, as does the following until the next trap door at Lady ZogMyrf. That fell back to the previous, and repeated the text until hitting a trap door at "in her". Before, "her Tube" continued the text straight. This time, it fell to "her throat" somewhere else.
-- Daphne Xu (a page of contents)
"When I use a word"
"When I use a word, it means exactly what I intend it to mean, no more, no less."
— Humpty Dumpty to Alice, Through the Looking Glass, by Lewis Carroll
Peace, Love, and Grace.
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