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Question: What does a "view" mean on a Story/Chapter? Short Answer: A view is how many times a chapter or story is loaded. View full question

This worked out better and finger count looks correct...

the song is better than the game...

It makes the most sense, insomuch as our Moon is unusually large for our planet to capture naturally. And the early solar system was presumed to be quite the pinball arcade.

Disney has issues, so it is highly unlikely a movie starring them is going to be anything other than a lecture about how evil Deadpool and Wolverine are and how Mary Sue can do it better and faster with no reason whatsoever than she's a woman. This is, of course, basing it on the crapshow string of movies since the sidelined the Marvel Creative Committee and focused on The Message™️instead of good stories. (starting with that pointless Captain Marvel Sue stand alone movie, where they totally gimped the BAMF Nick Fury. Should have been a Black Widow movie since she was a character we already enjoyed with an earned history of being a bad ass.) We are likely to keep getting crap from Disney until Bob Iger is terminated. Of course even South Park has called Disney out on this. Probably a bit over the top, as South Park tends to push it to the extreme, but you can't unsee the pattern once you know about it. See Star Wars. See Marvel since Captain Marvel Sue. While I obviously like seeing Gay characters, FanFiction belongs in FanFiction and canon should be left alone. Be creative and create new well-rounded characters.

I've added a note to include "Views" in the FAQ.

Please, in the future, separate questions instead of a mass of things clumped together. It makes it far easier to understand and faster to answer. You can find your story's reading stats by clicking the stats button on your story. Or going to the "My" menu and select "My Statistics" in stories. This displays each story by "views". Clicking on the story will give you the story's chapter breakdown. It also shows you number of comments per chapter. Views on a story are Views of the Story + Views of all Chapters. If the story has more chapters, probably has more views. If it has less chapter views and less chapters, but still high story views, that means lots of people click the story, read the description, but don't read the story. (enough of a blurb to get someone to click, but not enough to close the sale and get them to read) Because more people clicked on that chapter. whether they liked it and reread it a few times or it was a slow posting day and it had more exposure in the activity stream, so more people clicked, we have no idea. I can't figure the purpose or meaning of this sentence without assuming this is your first day on the Internet. So, under that assumption, the people making comments are members on the site who's name appears with the comment. As to why they comment, presumably they are commenting about something they just read. Pretty standard thing on the internet. Yeah, no kidding? Members commenting on stories and chapters and reading more than one story... I'm surprised this surprises you. Insomuch as you are getting engagement, yes, that's meaningful. It means 40 different members enjoyed whatever you wrote enough to engage you about it. Hopefully, you have engaged back by reacting or replying to said comments. If not, you'll likely be considered rude and lose interactions. And if people feel insulted enough, lose readership.

A bug was found in the Story of the Moment feature and been corrected. You should see a larger selection of stories now.

Drop a PM to @Cia, and discuss with her. We'll have to confirm some things.

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it might explain the hands...

Just to confirm, Google continues to ignore settings. As lovely as it would be to ditch them, we can't afford to. I've done the leg work and ordered the new server today, which is a bonus... it's cheaper and better than our current server. Some time this week the site will be moving.

Google has decided the site needs to be on "auto-ads" so they are controlling what shows up. It's different for everyone based on browser, location, and other things. I've seen some pretty stupid stuff and have been fighting with Googles settings... which they keep changing to suite themselves or ignoring my settings after a day or two. Can't turn them off though. 🤷‍♂️

While authors on the site provide content, Ad blockers for others or on other sites are at minimum ethically dubious. Websites provide content to you without charging in exchange for display of ads. If you go and take their content but provide nothing in return... that has a word I'll let you think of on your own. As a website owner, I either pay for Premium or ad-free or whatever for the sites I visit, live with the ads, or I don't visit. Many sites run a "Freemium" model, such as Gay Authors, where a mixture of paying members and ad-served members are enough to sustain sites... but as you look around and watch sites, news sites in particular, disappear, it is in large part due to this model going away. I fully expect most sites to go full pay to play in order to survive. Ad blockers just accelerate this process. It appears that Google is getting desperate because of this seismic change in the internet, as an insane percentage of their revenue is advertising. They are the ones that adjusted the settings on the site to add more ads. I've adjusted them back 4 times now and they keep changing them. Not sure what that tells you, but I can say that Gay Authors is running in the red right now due to dropping subscribers and severely dropping ad revenue. I'll be exploring options because it is clear that the current path is not sustainable to any website.