Something perturbs me deeply.
In short, I tend to get good scores. I'd say my average would be a 4.55 out of 5, 4.6 if I'm being generous. The one exception to this was the poorly-thought-out 'Dreams' story which is justifiably low. I shouldn't have put it on here, long story short.
So why is a story that I put so much effort into sitting at a 4.17?
I'm going to try to avoid being a Ragemonkey with this, though trust me, I'm tempted. Getting so many large scores has given a ego unto me, and I desperately want to know what went wrong with the low-scoring story so that I can correct it. I didn't submit the wrong story, I checked that. The story went through an editor (in fact, as part of an experiment competing with an editor-less story that not only has my highest score, but my second highest amount of votes, as of this typing while being my newest story!)
The story in question, Black Pearls - Lily, is categorized under Science-Fiction and Fantasy. It is also Lesbian, but Lesbian-ness is low on the totem pole of Literotica Genres. It's also nonhuman, because I explore and utilize features not found on a normal human body, and contains some Bondage elements. I want to say that I put over a year into the story, from start to publication, working slowly because this was (and still is) a back-burner de-stresser project.
You can read it for yourself; I'd be a fool not to include the link: https://www.literotica.com/s/black-pearls-lily
Generally, this story has a low popularity, something I chalk up to because of it doesn't check common nonhuman fetishes, like tentacles or elves/orcs, as well as being the end-cap of a series that tracks my growth as a writer. As of yet, it has 6 votes, which means that it's highly vulnerable to score changes. In fact, it was doing good until I checked back in a few weeks ago, where at 5 votes it had sunk to a manageable 4.3, and then today where it had deflated to a 4.17.
I have heard of something called 'Troll Votes' before. I do believe that someone was quite alarmed when their gay male story had a 1.0, and justifiably so (their concern, that is). While, by my calculations, the score total is at a 5-5-5-4-3-3, this still makes me vastly concerned about the attitudes of the votes put into this story.
Am I getting dinged by mean-spirited votes? Or is the story actually bad, and the editor somehow did not catch that? OR, is it just too plain weird? Because I know, it's got some weird sex in it that I wanted to explore through the medium of words.
In short, I tend to get good scores. I'd say my average would be a 4.55 out of 5, 4.6 if I'm being generous. The one exception to this was the poorly-thought-out 'Dreams' story which is justifiably low. I shouldn't have put it on here, long story short.
So why is a story that I put so much effort into sitting at a 4.17?
I'm going to try to avoid being a Ragemonkey with this, though trust me, I'm tempted. Getting so many large scores has given a ego unto me, and I desperately want to know what went wrong with the low-scoring story so that I can correct it. I didn't submit the wrong story, I checked that. The story went through an editor (in fact, as part of an experiment competing with an editor-less story that not only has my highest score, but my second highest amount of votes, as of this typing while being my newest story!)
The story in question, Black Pearls - Lily, is categorized under Science-Fiction and Fantasy. It is also Lesbian, but Lesbian-ness is low on the totem pole of Literotica Genres. It's also nonhuman, because I explore and utilize features not found on a normal human body, and contains some Bondage elements. I want to say that I put over a year into the story, from start to publication, working slowly because this was (and still is) a back-burner de-stresser project.
You can read it for yourself; I'd be a fool not to include the link: https://www.literotica.com/s/black-pearls-lily
Generally, this story has a low popularity, something I chalk up to because of it doesn't check common nonhuman fetishes, like tentacles or elves/orcs, as well as being the end-cap of a series that tracks my growth as a writer. As of yet, it has 6 votes, which means that it's highly vulnerable to score changes. In fact, it was doing good until I checked back in a few weeks ago, where at 5 votes it had sunk to a manageable 4.3, and then today where it had deflated to a 4.17.
I have heard of something called 'Troll Votes' before. I do believe that someone was quite alarmed when their gay male story had a 1.0, and justifiably so (their concern, that is). While, by my calculations, the score total is at a 5-5-5-4-3-3, this still makes me vastly concerned about the attitudes of the votes put into this story.
Am I getting dinged by mean-spirited votes? Or is the story actually bad, and the editor somehow did not catch that? OR, is it just too plain weird? Because I know, it's got some weird sex in it that I wanted to explore through the medium of words.