22 readers, 707 views... 0 reviews and 1 rating (my own)?

[Infinityphoenix]

Is it just a unique situation for me, or are readers on this site not very motivated to rate anything?

Like, I get my story is long. Each chapter part is 5k, so most of my readers add it to their read list to read later. My story's been on this site since July 18th, and I'm slowly approaching 1k views. But no ratings. Idk. Do other authors make promises to their readers to release additional chapters if they review or something?

And as a second question, does Scribble Hub do anything like the review swap thing Royal Road has going? I know there's first chapter feedback threads, but not really any review swapping that I've seen. Is it just not a thing on this site?

 

[RepresentingPride]

There not realy review swap here. You must know that most reader are silent reader and won't rate/comment your story. You can try to ask them at the end of your chapter. I did that one time and some started to comment/rate.

 

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Puppet's Feedback Thread (pay with comments)

Edit: GAAAAAHHH! There's so many of you! How does @Prince_Azmiran_Myrian do it?! Anyway, I would like to get back to my story someday, over the rainbow, so I will not be doing more feedback after I have done everyone in line who has posted up to this date in this thread: 8/19/2023 or 19/8/2023...

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You haven't really gotten enough readers that would begin to rate it. Most readers are silent readers who don't rate or comment.

 

[Syringe]

Very, very normal. At best you could ask/remind readers to, but other than that, don't expect people to go out of their way to review/rate unless they really like it (or hate it). It's honestly the same over at Royal Road aside from review swapping.

 

[Bobple]

Pretty much.

People don't review much here. Review swapping is basically non-existent.

Different site culture, and also there is no incentive to do it or for the Author to ask for it. You can search for other Review Swap threads, but you won't find much swapping.

 

[Paul__Michaels]

It might be that readers aren't attached to your story? I tried reading the prologue and first chapter and I find it hard to connect with your characters. And things are happening but it's sensory overload.

Like Lucy just talks to her butler and drinks the elixir and disappears. And goes through a long setup for getting a system.

There's very little setup to know who Lucy is before things go in motion.

Some people might like it but I was having trouble.

 

[Snusmumriken]

Is it just a unique situation for me, or are readers on this site not very motivated to rate anything?

Like, I get my story is long. Each chapter part is 5k, so most of my readers add it to their read list to read later. My story's been on this site since July 18th, and I'm slowly approaching 1k views. But no ratings. Idk. Do other authors make promises to their readers to release additional chapters if they review or something?

And as a second question, does Scribble Hub do anything like the review swap thing Royal Road has going? I know there's first chapter feedback threads, but not really any review swapping that I've seen. Is it just not a thing on this site?

The issue is that the statistics is confusing with their labels.

The 'readers' aren't always the actual readers. They are bookmarks, nothing more. Some do it because they are indeed reading. Others -- as a possible future read, and third-- just to filter your story out and not see it anymore. All three groups would be counted as "readers"

Views are also inflated as they are counted for each page viewed. You have 37 chapters and a title page? that is at least 38 "views" alone from 1 reader who read the entire story. You do some editing, check out your chapters? add your own views to that. Expect quite a lot of 'views' to actually be yours -- if you are from an obscure country -- you can look at the insights tab in statistics and see how much your own activity skews the views.

Even assuming that you only have hardcore readers who read everything and you posted everything at once and never checked your page afterwards, you only need less than 18 actual readers to reach 700 views number.

A more honest statistic to look at is the individual chapter views.




In terms of reviews and review swaps -- SH doesn't have review ads like I think RR does so there is no major drive to get reviews. As such they are a lot rarer here.

 

[Vulpecula]

It might be that readers aren't attached to your story? I tried reading the prologue and first chapter and I find it hard to connect with your characters. And things are happening but it's sensory overload.

Agree with this.

1. It looks like when you first released your story what you did is dump 100k words in one day, each chapter being 10k words. In other words, from the very start the story looked like a huge investment to get into it, and had no ratings or views or readers so nothing was vetting for its quality. There's a lot of writing on Scribble Hub, and unless you're writing for a big niche, other stories that do have vetting will always keep yours hidden.

2. Your title doesn't mean anything to me. What does "inter-realm, organisation-running" even mean in the context of a story? Stories are about characters, not about mechanics. This is white noise. "Misconstrued Déjà Vu — A Revenge Story" would do much better at attracting an audience, for example.

3. While your synopsis sounds "cool", the first half of it (IE the most important half) is not even about your protagonist.

4. Going into the story, the prologue is entirely system text (IE, not something to engage the reader to the story or characters (seriously, no one should use prologues unless they know what they're doing)), and chapter 1 starts with a lot of names and concepts that you're implicitly telling the reader are relevant by opening with them, forcing the reader to engage their brain from the very start of the story without a hook to actually make them interested in doing that first.

Your story is optimised for sending new readers away.

If you want to fix this, you need to dumb down the start of your story a lot and optimise for hooking the reader in to the concept and characters. And once you've done that then you can expand into the complex stuff you have here now. You also should probably just re-post it from the beginning so that it's not a huge number of words right from the start. Take it slow. Build up your reader base. A new story should really never start out with more than 10k words or so.

Once you have an actual reader base, then you'll get reviews and ratings.

(Side note, I posted this from my alt account, but for reference, my main is a "famous author" with nearly 5k readers over only a small number of novels. I'm not just spouting nonsense.)

 

[Infinityphoenix]

I just realised my first chapter was missing half of its contents :/

Thanks for the replies.