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Two Hundred View Plus Threshold

Two Hundred View plus Threshold

I have said it before but it bears repeating….VIEWs are the best statistic the site offers. If you don’t get many on a piece then move on….if you get a whole lot go back and take a closer look at what you did right.

It would be nice to know what the average number of views are that a piece gets here on Writing.com. As a writer we can see the number that something in our portfolio gets but we don’t really know beyond ourselves how many views another author's works are getting….I can see why this might be considered privileged, however, it would be interesting to see the views that other writer's get.

Now maybe there is somewhere I'm not aware of to find this out. If true, I'd be indebted to know where.

What I think would be cool is to have works that receive more than 200 views in a year rank ordered by views and when they were written…highest and .most current being on top…I would like to read these instead of random reads, or merit badge reads or newbie reads or any other type of category currently being offered.

Views are to Writing.com what sales are to a book publishing house and I don’t think any author would be offended by having their works that exceed the 200 view mark highlighted.

Further it would be useful for an author to know what the mean views of his works are and what the standard deviation is. If the work comes in below average it tells the author that from a reader perspective the work didn’t do too well and if it spikes it is worth taking a second look to see why.