My dear, there's this thing called "whoring". It's magical, excellent, and successful. My friend, whoring is the future. Master the skill, and comments will drastically increase.
It's because you have a 1/10000000000 chance of people actually clicking on your story when it's in the stories page. You'll need to pimp it out and such. And you can't rate stories here, the stars come from certain things. Like getting your first comment, hitting ten chapters, etc.
And I love you for loving me for loving you for loving me for loving you for loving me. I think I got it.