This is actually lazy tracking, compared to what I used to do a couple years back. LOL I was doing quarterly tracks all of my stats, for all of my stories, on three different sites.
It's one of the tools I used to help determine which site(s) a particular story would go on, how I would present it, and in what category I'd place it. My "Her Flock" trilogy, for example, went up on the other sites as a single submission trilogy, rather than three separate stories. Fewer ( or no ) categories on those sites, and stories that short don't perform well. When combined, they did fine for breaking into an entirely new genre for me.
My lists have grown so long that the last quarterly track took me around four hours to complete in Feb. '16. The effort vs. reward scales had tipped. I've been thinking about getting back into it, because one of those sites now has one click download of all your stats in a spreadsheet importable CSV file, cutting the time for tracking that site down to virtually nothing.
I made a request in the suggestion and improvements thread for the same thing here. ~_^
The third site uses a display method which would allow me to grab those stats in an importable fashion with a little one time coding work, so if Lush had a stats download option, I could go back to tracking everything and have it all done and looking pretty in a half an hour or so. I could also add a couple of columns to my Lush spreadsheet and have it automatically generate the views per month and estimated Famous/Legendary date.
The way things look right now, after the wave of stories listed in my previous post hit those lists, there will be a few years of hiatus. Then in 2025-2028, I'll have another wave, including two more making it to Legendary.
That's assuming I don't read one of those old stories and come up with an idea for a sequel to it. Writing a sequel could cause any opening story to surge, and then rise a little more quickly thereafter.
I'll quit stat-nerd rambling now. LOL
If you're remembering these stories from a few years back, I at least have a theory.
The I.F. category was removed a few years back, and only recently reinstated. If the author you're looking for only posted those type of stories, there's a very good chance they removed their account and left during the time the category was banned. Such an author would have very little reason to believe there was any reason to ever check back, because of the sudden way the category was removed and the way those authors were treated at the time.
So, you may be searching in vain.
I gave up on all sports in the 80s with the Cardinals forever snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
Half of the weekly highlight reel would be Jack Clark home runs, incredible plays by Ozzie Smith, diving catches by Willie McGee...
And they'd still lose the damn game.
There was a time where you could near flawlessly predict the outcome of the game by seeing where the Cards were at the 7th inning stretch. If they were winning, they'd lose. If they were losing, they'd win. You'd find yourself hoping to see them getting their asses whooped in the beginning of the game, because it was the only way they seemed to pull off a win.
One day, I just gave up, and I haven't really followed any sport since.
That this thread has been resurrected multiple times, and not a single person has whined and complained about "thread necromancy". Virtually anywhere else, there seems to be a rule that anyone bumping a thread that's been inactive for more than two weeks must be ridiculed, shunned, and insulted by anyone that happens across it.
Those same people will then engage in the same behavior when someone "starts a new thread on the same tired topic"
I've been railing against this particular bit of no-win n00b shaming for years, and it's nice to see a place where it just doesn't happen. =d>
Since the text had to be removed, you might want to provide some details about the story. How many words, the fetish, and perhaps a brief synopsis. That will help people decide if it's the sort of thing they could help you tidy up.
One more for both of you. I might get there in a decade or so. LMAO I'm not even halfway yet.
Yep. Entering the contests always results in a win, no matter where you land in the standings at the end.
Every time a new contest story posts, it attracts readers to the contest page, which gives you another chance at a read that you might not have otherwise picked up if your story has slipped off the front page.
It's a great way to attract new eyes that everyone should take advantage of whenever a plot bunny that fits the theme hops into your head.
First draft done, clocking in at 7413 words. So, I have at least a little leeway for tweaks and the difference between Wordperfect's word count and Lush's.
I'll let it sit for a couple of days, and then get down to editing.
Have the sex started in mine with 4400 words remaining to the limit. Think I'm in good shape with this one.
Really close on the one.
How do you manage to create the "continue reading" links? As far as I can tell, there's only an option to link to previous stories on the submissions page.
I swear there used to be a much more detailed breakdown of the content rules than is provided in the FAQs, which gave examples and such. Vampires and blood, for example.
Seems as if it was a forum post, but I can't find it for the life of me. Thought it was a sticky, but obviously not any longer, if it was.
Or if it even existed. Maybe I dreamed it...
I just started a follow-up to Serpentine Destiny called Feather and Scale. Moving from weird serpentine Lamia sex to weird Harpy sex. LOL
Fantasy is my main, preferred genre, so I'm not going to stop writing them, even if they mostly get ignored here.
I've got 5 RRs for Fantasy/Supernatural, and they don't do much to improve the numbers of a story LOL
I have one Milf story with as many views/votes as all of my fantasy work combined.
Congrats to the winners!
It's naughty! 
