Hello!
So I wanted to ask what kind of polls you readers would like to see for some of the storyboards and planning?
Lately I'd found out people really like polls. The views where I put up chapters with polls get a lot of views really fast. This makes me think readers want to have a positive way to work with the authors to help them. And this could be used in a way that's positive for both if its carefully done.
Be cautious of what a view is. I doubt that polls have much of an actual impact on the number of real people viewing the page. In all likelihood, you have a few dozen people who answered the poll, and are checking in on the poll repeatedly.
This isn't a survivorship bias, but it's reminiscent to me of the kind of mindset you need when doing statistical analysis. Between my math and engineering degrees, I think I've got a pretty good handle on it.
Looking at your stories, I can tell you two things definitively:
1. You don't have a large enough sample to make the assertation that the general "readers" want what you claim. With ~100 views, there isn't anything you can really gleam about a general audience.
2. Page views is a very terribly correlated data point for the claim whether people like something.
Remember, volunteer polls are by far the worst statistical data you can gather. They aren't very representative, and at most tell you what "People who both like to answer polls and are reached by this poll" want. Not what all people that are reached by the poll want. Polling is an incredibly complicated process to actually gather meaningful data. You usually need a few filter questions to construct a meaningful data model of your data.
That doesn't mean you can't do analysis of your own writing and story, however.
You have hundreds of chapters. You should make a spreadsheet. Chapter Title | Views | Likes | Number of Comments | Date Published . Then make various comparative graphs, do analysis on the type of chapter title wording, all while being aware that you may need to compensate for how long the chapter has been published for. That is going to be far more representative to tell you what your readers want.
If you think that polls are going to help you get more readers, what you'll probably find is that you'll end up with fewer readers. You'll drive away readers who don't care much for polls and are bothered by the number of them. These are people who also DON'T respond to polls. Your audience currently is comprised of people who both like and dislike polls. Dislikes are a stronger driving force than liking something. They'll just drop it.
