Guy:
Why does one story get more "reads" than another? Just looking at the results, I can't relate it to story length nor order of loading. The difference probably has more to do with choice of title. As I have said before, titles are important too.
Well, of the three stories that ended up with over 300 'reads,' by title two of them clearly appeared to refer to a girl being spanked (although in one of them the title was a misdirection) and the third one had a clever-sounding title (which actually, when spelled differently, turned out to refer to a young woman being paddled)--so it certainly does appear that a story's title influences how much it's going to be read during a Challenge, without anything else for a potential reader to go by.
Ideally, of course, a reader/voter should read and rate (vote on) every story in the Challenge...
--C.K.