How do these stats get generated? 9 views but 462 likes on 2 chapters?

[domisotto]

I am not sure how, sorry. When I click on the author's name it gives me 404 error

[KRWright]

@TapasCommunityTeam a little help here?

[domisotto]

It's the top in Popular, Romance, Free atm if it helps

[joannekwan]

I made a report, but next time you can just report the series, not the author.

[Dysis]

A few days ago, I found a person with 8 subs on their profile. When I did click on the subs though, it showed more than 89 pages, each page with 20 subs.

It should be possible but that account doesn't have more than one story, and that story has only two episodes released just this month. But the task bar on top of the subscription shows a lot of stories there. I was so confused.
¯\ _(ツ) _/¯

[domisotto]

Okay, done, ty... weird stuff.

[RyzaCobalion]

That is strange. i don't i've ever run into that before.

[TapasCommunityTeam]

If you received an error when clicking on the creator, they were likely already banned.

But feel free to link the series so we can take a look!

[joannekwan]

https://tapas.io/series/Solo-el-comienzo

[TapasCommunityTeam]

Ah yes, that account is currently under review.

[Ordinaryaverageguy]

I think I can see how an author with little content here can have a LOT of subs but very few reads. I know at least one author here who is a kinda-big YouTube channel & when they announced publishing a comic here, a lot of YouTube followers flocked to Tapas to see it.
I'm assuming that they could sub without actually reading anything yet. I could be wrong though.

[domisotto]

Yeah, but to like an episode, a person needs to open an episode, and that should generate a view.

[domisotto]

Also, by some reason, it seems to affect Spanish-language novels. There is almost always one with no view count, but lots of subs and likes on popular list.

[darthmongoose]

Also, by some reason, it seems to affect Spanish-language novels. There is almost always one with no view count, but lots of subs and likes on popular list.

There's only one explanation...

SPANISH SPEAKING GHOSTS!

[cherrystark]

There's only one explanation...

SPANISH SPEAKING GHOSTS!

You're right. That's the only logical solution. Who are we going to call?

[domisotto]

Oh, I forgot it was October! No, I was wondering of there is a simple innocent explanation, like they are accessing the stories through some other app or something. I hate thinking they are cheating right away, plus, they have comments on the chapters too. So, it's just something weird that doesn't count views properly? B/c normally you would have 10x views at least to likes ratio, and that's if your readers are not shy, heh

[domisotto]

So, I got unduly curious about it, and checked the accounts that left comments on that book's chapter. All of them are set up in the same way: they have 3 books in their library, some of them adding that same book MULTIPLE times, and also liking each chapter of this book MULTIPLE times. So, that's how they generate so many likes and subscribers without generating views. Intriguing.

[scribesunlimited]

Obviously someone is always going to take advantage however possible. I just don't worry about it and focus on getting our own work out there and seen. It's not like Tapas has the ability to control them, sadly. It's unfair, yeah, but it doesn't inhibit our own creative and effective means to get noticed too.

[domisotto]

Not if it takes spots in Popular and Trending. They delete them when reported. If they wouldn’t, they will take 5 top spots or more.

[scribesunlimited]

Well, I'm glad we have vigilant people here to report the chicanery.
I wouldn't know what to look for.