Nope. That ain't it.
That's what I just said. Dropped has nothing to do with readers numbers. Why quote me lol?
Ignoring the fact that that doesn't really make sense, the part that confuses me is the fact that I don't see anyone new in the "Recent Readers" section. Do they have to be reading it for a certain amount of time for them to appear there or something?
Might be that 'readers' who drop your story aren't listed for the sake of privacy. If so, it's a feature I wasn't aware of.
Dropped DOES have to do with reader numbers. That's why you were quoted.
nah, I'm pretty sure they've appeared there before. As long as they start reading the story, they should be up there and dropping it doesn't remove them from the recent readers list. So yeah, this is really confusing. The only explanation would be if you need to be looking at the story for a certain amount of time in order to appear there, and this guy just went in, dropped it, and left.
As for why that might be the case, let me first ask... Were you planning on going to that 'reader' and asking them (politely, of course) why they dropped your story?
People could put your story into their dropped list at any time. Whether they have read their story days ago, just recently, or they didn't read it at all. So the "culprit" could be anyone. On your recent readers list or otherwise.
Don't.
Doesn't really explain anything. The total amount of readers increased, but there's no one new in "recent readers". If it was someone old, it shouldn't have increased, and if it was new, they should be in recent readers.
Logical
Also logical. I will test this by adding your story directly to my "Dropped" list without even looking at it. Just as a test; no insult intended,
You are way too worried about this; random people will drop your story all the time, you can't please everyone, so at least please those who stayed. Just continue writing as you always had and don't overthink about stuff like this. Otherwise, you'll end up like me with my 7 months of hiatus.
I am not overly worried about this. This just happened a few times in the past, and I was always confused about it and I've never really gotten a reasonable explanation. Since it happened again recently, I thought I should ask. It's not like I'm trying to find out who did it, I can tell that's impossible now. I was just confused, that's all.
Did you forget the part where the total amount of readers increased by one? Meaning it can't be an old reader.
ok, I appreciate the test, it looks like that's what happened. Can you undo that now?
Someone could read your story without ever putting it in their library/reading list. You have tons of readers who are not counted as "total readers" due to that, mostly because people are often a bit too lazy to put stuff into their list (despite it being only 2 clicks).
