Ph: Faith: I'm Patient With Kimmy (1) , Have Patience For Paul (2) ~ Still More Corrections - Sigh! Comments

PoetrySoup (where I also publish my poetry) tells one exactly how many people have 'viewed' a poem. But who knows if they actually read the whole thing? For example one more popular poem, written on Nov.20,20 there has been read 151 times in one month. Another poem composed of 4 limericks written on Nov 24,20 won an award in a contest there and has had 251 readers in about the same amount of time.

PoemHunter is strange Paul. PH only tells you how many 'Hits' your main page has received per day. In 'Member Area' chose 'Poem and Poet Settings, ' then select 'Stats' or 'More Stats.' Under 'More Stats' you can see how many 'Hits' you get each day, what poems were selected, and how many times they were selected. Some days I get well over 1,000 'Hits' but there are rarely more than 50 poems read. Go figure!

I suppose the real measure is not how many read a poem, it is how many people react to the poem by rating it. It is like Facebook. Thousands can read a given post. The real value of the post is the number of people who press " Like."

On PH Paul, you can only like comments, not poems. You can " Rate" a poem here, but often ratings are not heartfelt but a subtle attempt to get others to reciprocate, to visit your site and give you a high rating as well. PoetrySoup for example does not allow a rating but only comments which can be used the same way. I used to comment other's poems but stopped doing so under my name. I rate others more anonymously by sending messages or comments under a pen name.