"John's Living Nightmare" has just hit 14000 hits. (The kudos aren't proportionate.)
The first salvo of "A Bikini Beach Summer" has been in the 9000s, and I have a story each in the 6000s, 5000s, and 4000s.
I'm unfortunately going rather slow at the latest part of "A Bikini Beach Late Summer". My initial fairly fast posting was only possible because I had already written most of it, and did minimal revision. While I have later chunks written, I also have gaps, and I'm in a gap right now.
I also have to finish preparing a class.
I dashed off "Great-Grandma Learns to Text" during the postings, and readers seem to appreciate that more than "A Bikini Beach Late Summer".
The postings have given me some new readers (and re-readers) of "A Bikini Beach Summer" and other stories.
Comments
Disproportionate
I seem to recall that a completely different system of recognition from the present Kudos was in place a while back. And that when the Kudo system was introduced, the other system 'went away.' So somewhere in the ether is further evidence of folks' appreciation for that story...and others?
Love, Andrea Lena
Before My Time
I've heard of the existence of another system before the current kudo system, but I think the current system arrived before I did. I came in 2014, to post "A Bikini Beach Summer" at Elrod's suggestion. "John's Living Nightmare" was posted after. Its hits have puzzled me almost from the start.
-- Daphne Xu
Not Uncommon
It's not unusual for "forced fem" to get a large amount of hits and few comments.
14,000 is a very large number of hits.
Congratulations.
Jill
Angela Rasch (Jill M I)
Kudos Too?
Thanks! Presumably, such a story gets relatively few Kudos as well. Granted, my story is high in the Kudos list, just low proportional to the hits.
I can't remember now. Outside of BB, is this the only forced-fem story that I've posted? (Maybe "Vengeance and Beyond", a science-fiction horror story.) Also non-BB magic.
-- Daphne Xu
Not Uncommon
It's not unusual for "forced fem" to get a large amount of hits and few comments.
14,000 is a very large number of hits.
Congratulations.
Jill
Angela Rasch (Jill M I)
Congratulations
14000 is a very high hit rate as been mentioned.
The relatively low number of Kudos may also be due to that a significant number of the hits is due to people coming back and re-reading the story. Multiple Kudos from one reader is not possible. Nonetheless, many people coming back is highly meaningful by itself.
30,000 or 150,000 Hits
Katie Leone's blog post that I was led to mentioned her story, The Dress Punishment, declaring that it had 30000 hits. I went to the story, and found about 150,000 hits.
That's getting up there.
-- Daphne Xu