Is there Correlation between Chapter Depth, Likes, and Views?

While I agree with you on principle, there are a bunch of people who actively pursue people to add chapters to their stories. I personally have had 6 different people 'cold call' me asking me to write a few chapters for their stories. Me being a nice guy, I actually agreed a couple times. So it doesn’t mean that their stories inspired me, it means that I didn’t have the initiative to just tell them to take a hike, and it was just easier to knock off a string of chapters.

 

True, I had forgotten this, as I never do that, and, more importantly, whenever someone ELSE does it to me I tell them to STFU in no uncertain terms.

 

Does story category impact views that much from experience? I've just posted my first story under Sci-Fi but really it could be classed under multiple categories. I feel like I could get more views under a different classification.

 

In my experience category has little impact on views, favorites, and likes, but there are a lot of categories I won't even touch and based strictly on the number of stories I see in each category on the front page, they appear to be the most popular...

 

That may have more to do with association than anything else. Aside from people who may not be into sci-fi (or worry that it's an excuse for heavy exposition or strangeness that may not fit their conception of "erotic"), there's also a fair amount of fan-fiction under "sci-fi", which by nature is more likely to appeal to those who share the fandom.

New visitors are also more likely to search for a favorite fetish or kink than a fiction genre, I suspect.

 

I dont think there is much of a correlation unless you hook the quick and easy readers with some sex right off the bat in the first chapter which youl probably get a lot more. That and sometimes people can go nuts and like every single one of your chapters which can sorta throw the numbers off.

 

What's wrong with that? If I enjoy a story I do it like that and only miss out the chapters which I didn't enjoy that much.
I even think that's the way it should be done... and in my experience, most voting readers do it like that.

 

There isnt a problem. Im just saying that you can only rely on it being a rough metric to show the popularity of a story because you dont know if it came from one person or a hundred.

 

Sure, Likes aren't exact but if 10% of the readers vote regularly, you'll always get the opinion of that 10%, so at the end of the day, the result will be about the same.
And as the author of the chapter, you can see if it is the same user who liked your chapters or if there are no readers who liked two or more of your chapters.