Now, to some writers, making the popular stories section wouldn't mean a thing. I, however, am not one of those writers (I've only made it there once before), so when I logged on and saw this:

I was quite a happy camper.

Thank you, everyone who's checked this story out, liked it, favorited it, and generally enjoyed it! I'm so glad to see that my story is getting such great feedback! Stay awesome, everyone! Cheers

My new story just hit the popular list yay!

I think this is my first time doing so! I'm just so happy everybody liked my story!

Nopes checked it was my second time lol!

Thanks guys this means a lot. My story A New Destiny has been in the Popular Box for two days now!

I found my fic in the Popular Stories side bar.

It has 19 views, and you can't find it on any of the pages when sorting all stories by Heat, aka clicking More Popular Stories.
Either my view count is broken or the Popular Stories side bar uses a very different and broken algorithm for finding what's popular than the normal sorting by Heat.

I'm willing to bet it's the latter.

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Hello, subscribers! Anarchy comin' at ya!

Well... Harmony Gems is out... And in popular stories... All I can say:

YOU GUYS FREAKIN' ROCK!!!

For those of my subscribers who haven't seen it yet: what are you waiting for? For Homeworld's invasion? The Cluster's awakening? TO READ IT NAAAOOOO!!!

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Wow... even though it's only '26 views', The Wielder of the Orb is actually at the top of the popular stories list! (I have absolutely no idea how it got up there with so few views...)

But here's a look at the front page when I came on:

Look at the top right, there's the triple author collab story I made with Forestshadows and Dreadnought, "The Wielder of the Orb"

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Hello my dear readers and follower for this story and for my account in general,

I need your guys' help. I'm going to enter "The Mare Who Became Queen" into this contest:
Audio Drama Contest

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Seriously, when did Marvel villains get good? I really want to know. So I found this video that both asks and answers the same question and it was really good. You guys can check it out if you want.

I just checked on the popular stories section of FiMFiction to see that Waifoal Academy was the top story! I know that it won't last long, but I still think it's great! Thank you all for the favs on my story!

As you may know, I entered the contest with my story:

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There is an ongoing voting poll to decide the winner by a popular vote.

For those of you who would like an update, here's how the story is doing so far, here you go:

To me, it's looking quite decent.

I have once again made another story that made it on the top of the popular stories list! Thank you guys for all of the favs and support!

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Because I felt like doing this analysis, I randomly went through all of the stories submitted on the site for the last week and did a tabulation of the numbers for various pertinent categories of stories; they have been recorded here for the sake of posterity.

The FIMFiction story numbers were taken for the week prior to 5-20-2014 at 3:00 am Pacific time. There were 550 stories in the sample.

Rating
172 Everyone
248 Teen
44 Teen (sex)
24 Mature (no sex)

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I probably should have said this in advance, even though I figured it would be obvious at this point.

Yes, I know Ashes is rather convoluted, dark, expositiony, and not everypony's cup of tea. This isn't a story I expected to be popular, even among readers who have grown to expect this as my signature style.

In this particular case, I am totally okay with this.

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Wow, was not expecting my newest story to get so popular and have so many comments in just two days! Who knows, it might just reach Once a Time Lord in fame! (Speaking of that, I do wish more people would view Once a Time Lord's mini-sequel...)

That's as many as five tens.
In about Six Hours.
And they were all about Displaced Into Nothing.

I love you too FiMFiction!

Or more accurately: What factors except writing quality make stories popular?

To answer this question, I extracted the metadata from all published stories on fimfiction.net in July 2016. This includes number of views, likes, dislikes and comments, tagged characters and genres, content rating (everyone, teen, mature), status (complete, incomplete, on hiatus, cancelled), date of publishing and last modification, and whether there is a story image.

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I turn around for a second, and when I turn back, one of my stories is in the 'Popular' tab?

...I genuinely don't know what to say, other than "I'm flattered".

Here I am, just a guy who thought "Y'know what? I wanna write some stories!" And now, I'm being semi-featured on a site that I know for a fact has better authors than me?

I'm really touched.

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