OK! OK! Well spotted, there's a bug, lol. The recommended story maintenance script isn't working. Don't worry, I'm on it and thanks for pointing this out. There's no flies on you, haha!

P.S. ...lovable Frankenstein of a website?

There is a weighting for premium stories also which should compensate for lack of likes.

We find that on this site, as with in the wider world, the authors that become the top sellers as those that build up a following. This can take time and effort, but the benefits are worth it, and we have authors that regularly earn several hundred dollars a month.

The key is for people to get to know your work, and the most effective way for this is to upload some short stories for free. If members enjoy your free stories, then it's much less of a risk for them to purchase a premium story, and in our experience once their hooked on an author's work, they'll look out for the notifications whenever you upload something new.

Of course we're always happy to discuss with authors about improvements to the website and how to better promote work. C00kie is currently collecting feedback and ideas on this for future developments.

Generally the stories are sorted by 'recommended'. Each story is given a score and higher scores are shown first. Scores are based upon things like, whether the story has a thumbnail and description, number of chapters, number of likes, date created etc.

Oops sorry about that. Thanks for pointing it out, this should now be fixed.

Please accept my apologies. This should now be fixed, any further problems please let me know.

Well spotted, it's actually just a legacy feature that the comments appear in different places. It's not idea, and something we intend to change in a future update.