Hi Torq,

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T
What should "Overall Most Popular Stories" mean?

I apologize for the length of this post, however, it's necessary to illustrate the issue. Below is a link to the post that I made,

http://www.bdsmlibrary.com/forums/sh...7&postcount=11

On the home page, this link,

http://www.bdsmlibrary.com/site/library/list.php

shows different categories of stories by 'rating.'

Quote:
Tiger's quote

"The script counts the number of readers to each story and the stories with highest count will be in the "Overall Most Popular Stories". The "Recent Popular" is determined by the counts of current month."
Overall Popular Stories: the most popular stories of all time

#1 Slave Girls in Bondage, 33 votes! (8/10, 33 votes) (Total 528126 readers)
His statement is supported by this list, however, as a reader, I'd like to read the Highest Rated stories. It is the third link from the top of the list.

For illustration purposes, if I click on

It lists stories

http://www.bdsmlibrary.com/stories/l...&arrange1=DESC

#1 A Slave's Road, Neil has (10/10, 23 votes) (Total 141366 readers)

#5 The Weekend, Sardonicus (129 kb) (10/10, 29 votes) (Total 102423 readers)

#102 Communications Skills 4: Lip Service, subtle (10/10, 3 votes) (Total 16601 readers)

#103 Work Home Balance, Georg Kinaski (10/10, 10 votes) (Total 19767 readers)

Maybe I'm looking at this from a completely wrong perspective, but, from my calculations, I'm not sure what the rating system takes into account. How do these numbers justify their position?

Quote:
Tiger's quote

The stories can also be listed according to the ratings. It's hard to combine the story clicks and ratings to get a overall score, unless someone can come up a reasonable way to calculate.
Based on the description of how Overall Most Popular Stories are calculated, his statement shows the system does not count these stories in the same manner. The system seems to count the stories as something other than this

He further stated,
"The reader is counted only when he/she clicks in a chapter or the full text page."
#1 141,366 divided by 23 votes is an average of 1 vote per 6146.3 readers -- fewer votes in relation to more readers

#5 102,423 divided by 29 votes is an average of 1 vote per 3531.8 readers -- more votes in relation to fewer readers

another case in point

#102 16,601divided by 3 votes is an average of 1 vote per 5533.6 readers -- fewer votes in relation to more readers

#103 19767 divided by 10 votes is an average of 1 vote per 1976.7 readers -- more votes in relation to fewer readers

In summary, for this category, the stories that appear higher on the rating scale have fewer votes with more readers that those that are lower on the list that have more votes with fewer readers.

Tiqer's quote
The stories can also be listed according to the ratings. It's hard to combine the story clicks and ratings to get a overall score, unless someone can come up a reasonable way to calculate.
My suggestion is to consider using the calculation method above for Highest rated scores and leave the hits out of the equation.

I understand the necessity of calculating hits per story and/or author. If one doesn't exist already, another system calculation account could provide those statistics. The way it stands, it is irrelevant to the reader and authors to include hits in this category unless, the hits are reported as a separate category. That last sentence is just my opinion.

Please consider not only the readers' point of view, but also, the writers'. This category is a report card that is determined by the objectivity of the audience, rather than the reviews, which are subjective by nature.

Thanks for all the work you do. Filling Rabbit's paws has to be daunting not to mention, a thankless job.


Nikita