lenapresents Going by views alone gives a poor estimate of readership. It gives some idea, but collections is typically the best because those are the people who bothered to stick it into their library. (Also, lots of bot scrapers on the site will add a lot of empty views, and viewing the story page counts as a view which also over-inflates actual reading of the chapters.) Most readers are silent ones, so comments will likely be infrequent with reviews even more so, but interacting with readers help. That can be through a question posted in the A/N at the end, or simply by responding to the comments you do get. Power stones are a funny one. There are silent voters too, and then some readers who comment more (or have it in their library too) don't even vote lol. Unless you're getting hundreds of PS a week, they don't seem to benefit the story in terms of exposure. Of course, it's a nice feeling when readers like a story enough to vote. (:
As for LGBTQ, it's fairly sparse in terms of titles, but there's definitely an audience on here for it. Like any other readers, they can both be active and vocal, or quiet. From the extent I've seen, the genre is gaining some traction, but it's still very niche/not mainstream or popular like other genres aka ceo romance and cultivation or system. So you'll be joining as one of the pioneers for the genre. XD
