Top Rated Stories Spreadsheet

[nonconsensual (imported)]

I think we underappreciate all the hard work anonymous does. Sometimes the author is inconsistent but look how many is posted.

[Paolo]

Like I said the other day, that guy sure gets around. Him/her and "unknown" sure are busy!

[JesusA (imported)]

Talula and I checked on the star rating system. It was instituted on August 27, 2011. That was the first day on which members could rate stories. It's something that we all need to do much more often to let authors know that we appreciate their work.

[Paolo]

There are now 600 stories listed in the Top Rated!

[Atreyu69 (imported)]

I went through the list of top stories that Paolo compiled and sorted them by author. Here’s a listing of the top authors for those 567 stories. I’ve only listed those with 5 or more stories on the list.

ANONYMOUS ......... 31

UNKNOWN ......... 37

Zoroaster ......... 32

Nathan ......... 29

Mandler ......... 16

Mark ......... 16

Atreyu69 (or 88) ......... 14

Zipper ......... 12

Byzwriter ......... 11

jockpussy ......... 9

Rob Cole ......... 8

martineasy ......... 7

Missing ......... 6

BangleBalls ......... 6

curious_guy ......... 6

darkboy ......... 6

Erik ......... 6

BullGator ......... 5

Chad Addison ......... 5

jearns85 ......... 5

Paolo ......... 5

I think it’s also interesting that 6 of the stories were originally posted in 1997 (the first year of the Archive) and 129 of them were posted before the end of 2000. Some of the very old stories are still very popular. Over half of the top rated stories (298) were posted before the end of 2005. Rating the stories only began with the transfer to the new system a couple of years ago, so it's not that the old stories have been accumulating votes for many years.

I never imagined that I'd make it to the top five of "named" writers. What can I say other than I'm humbled to be on the list. This gives me an incentive to put a greater efforts into my stories and to submit more often.

[byzwriter (imported)]

Thanks Paolo and Jesus - that is a fascinating glimpse... It has given me a lot to think about.