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Specific to WN, using romance as an example, this genre tend to garner more views easily. A simple exercise to determine this would be to look at the number of views a romance novel tend to garner on its days of features versus a fantasy/system novel. This is specifically to views ONLY. With regards to powerstones, it is a different matter.

With regards to collection, I can only use examples gained purely from hearsay. Before being featured a certain novel was sitting close to 1:1000 ratio. For every 1000 views, it was getting 1 person to put it into their collection. During it's front page feature, it was 1: >3 digits with 43k views. This leads me to conclude it is about the crowd and the front page crowd are far more receptive to putting a new book into their collections (yeah, love that crowd man).

It was featured alongside a novel that ended in the top 80s in the week prior. That novel had a SYSTEM in it's title and a high volume of updates/ views/ reviews by the time it was featured. In the following week , I believe it was closing in on 1m(from 500k or so) views and ended in the top 30s. New originals are not allowed to be featured once it is above 3000 collections currently with the exception of daily updates.

I realize my above examples are reductive in terms of your question. To cover the final angle, I believe that until a novel has proceeded to the front page and spent some time in the back end of WN, gaining an accurate representation of views:collections is not possible.

I believe this is where your reviews create a dissonance and I do not admire your position. Should a novel you review to have a score of lets say 5 and it breaks into the top 100 in the next week, how does said review stand?
With the cooperation of the author, you could weigh out your review with the views:collection ratio I suppose but wouldn't that defeat your purpose of curating by your own established standards/framework?

All the best with your site man!

Jamison_C
What a great explanation! As expected from Jamison.

Actually, that has been on my mind lately. I noticed that some of the assessed novels have numerous views and high power stone rankings, so I wondered if they were actually featured or contracted. I have no way of knowing; it could very well slip by me.

As for breaking into the top 100, I doubt a novel that could do that would get anything less than a score of 6 because of TQ and CL, haha! Additionally, one of the other three should be at least 1. I've only come across one novel that scored a 6 that was somewhat popular according to views and PS, but the chapter length was at ~500, and the TQ was 2. Thus, it could've been 9, but alas, a 6.

However, you are correct! In a sense, I'm evening the field to boost great stories with less awareness, and critique on popular stories that have yet to reach (my personal) standard that others less popular have. Even then, many of the critiques for the popular ones are mostly the same and can be fixed.

Thank you!

My novel is currently at 121.2K views with 283 views, out of which only 4-5 r faithful readers who actually read, donate and comment. The ratio stands to about 1:425.ish something.
Not sad (even tho im sad inside) but then I noticed a certain trend. For the last few days, my collections would always decrease by 1 and then suddenly the next day it would increase back. And the change would always be of 1. Not one less or more. It has happened for a week now and im puzzled at whether someone of my faithful readers is playing a prank on me to get more chapters out. But
.... Who knows....
I wish my novel could become famous but then again, im more of a lazy-gamer than a writer and currentlyy xams r going on.

JunkieOverThe_Moon
Way better than me. 79.9k views and 282 collection which decreases 4-5 a day and increases 1-2 at the same time. I doubt that more than 20 are reading to the end lol. >3</

I'm at 23k and 82 collections. But that ain't gonna bring me down lol. I'm enjoying writing my work anyway, so that's what I'll focus on right now instead of obsessing about them numbers. Less stress that way.

I have a feeling my story must have popped up on the frontpage for a day or so. Ratio jumped from 700:1 to better than 250:1 in no time at all. Views jumped by over 20k, which is huge for me.

Well that felt good -- for a while.

Now it's back to a little better than 1k views a day, but I'm bleeding collections. So the last week or so I've droppped from almost 200 to a little better than 170 despite some 10k more views.

A telltale story of what happens when lots of readers catch a glimpse of your work, add it to their library and realise it wasn't their cup of tea after all.

Book_Keeper

For the record, collection:views ratio can be used to supplement your review, footnote etc etc- it's just another measurement.

Personally, I am actually far more interested in your established framework and standards as well as how you go about executing them. As long as it is well executed, it's fine. If your analysis was outcome-based in the first place, what value is there? i.e fitting the logic to accentuate the outcome. I have better things to do than entertain such a hum-drum review. At the very least, I feel that you do not slide that way, keep it up yo!

P.S: I wanted to make the tone far more humorous and light but I just woke up and the heart is willing but the mind is not, LEL.

Jamison_C Hahaha, it's okay! It made me laugh anyway.
Trying my best, trudging along... Curses on my need to organize!!

Lizabelle88
Haha, it'll never drop to 0. It's been in my collections ever since I reviewed it. >3</

StenDuring
I dont think so. Eg, I had some 1:5000 a month ago and after tweaking my writing style a bit, it jumped to where Im now and I definitely wasn't on the front page. Its not necessary for one to be in the front page to get views and collections. Just a bit of tweakings.

90751052

Nevermind, my collection count that dropped by 20 in the past days jumped back up to the original number and one up. I guess people liked the recent chapter I posted as much as I did. I guess it's all about writing quality. But it'll go down soon lol. >3</

JunkieOverThe_Moon Ah, I might have been unclear. I'm used to a steady 1k views a day (a little more now). It increased by 20k views in two days while collections jumped from 40 to 200 during the same two days. Something was definitely off.

StenDuring
Well, Two days is really a short time even fir my case. My collection chart was a lot more straight. It took me nearly a month to get where im now but.... Meh! Its a lucky encounter enjoy it.

My collection to views ratio is 142:1.Is that even acceptable in the WN community? Even considering the fact that I joined recently, should it be more or less?

PoppyQueen Given the posts above it's probably very good.

Veronica8 Zaldizko Ratio is 275:1
To My Sunflower Ratio is 361:1

Procrastinating with forums today :grin: Haven't checked this for a while.

Zaldizko Ratio is 309:1
To My Sunflower Ratio is 400:1.

I guess that's stable, although I've lost more collections faster than I've gained. Wait, did I gain any? :thinking: I've received some glowing reviews, so I'm happy.

Nayamorac Minecraft: A New Beginning 418:1

Updated ratio:
Minecraft: A New Beginning 464:1

Forgot to update my ratio here.

It is still pretty good. I have now more than 100 collections so I'm pretty happy about it though I'm on a little hiatus since I'm having trouble writing.

Currently, my book's ratio is-
170:1
Finally, 100 collections. But I feel it's pretty good considering I don't update daily. Somehow, my other book has been getting more views, even though I have stopped writing it.