Quote by Liz
This doesn't make any sense at all. Story scores aren't supposed to be representative of how many people read the stories. It's about quality, not popularity.
If no one has to "push a button" then whatever metric it is you're envisaging isn't actually a score, is it? Why would the site want to change "scores to reads" if there is already a 'views' metric on stories already?
I have written an account of some analysis I did, I have sent that email to the contact us email address as specified. Hopefully, everyone On the Lush panel of representatives can read it, if and when it gets distributed. I'm not going to explain everything here because I don't want to create an issue out of something that may get rejected anyway.
However, you have indicated above that the scores are about quality - they are not. Mistakes are made when they are used. They can be used in a bad way to mark down stories, they can be ignored when everyone gives 5s, they are only ever used by friends of authors and some discerning people that bother to use them. They are not indicative of quality.
The views metric, and I may be wrong (Gav could correct me on this) is probably not representatives of reads either. I would assume it measures the hits on a downloaded page.
Measuring a proper read of a story is subjective, but reads are more indicative of how popular a story is. It's a different metric but probably a better one. Megananne1986 is correct in that it records the total reads and a mathematical approach would be needed.
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A story about a quarantined scientist working at a KrazyGlue research lab.
Come on. You know you want to. 
