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Was there a sweep last night?
I woke up, logged in and every one of my stories had gone up in ratings, some significantly.
Yes there was
None of mine have budged an inch either way since yesterday.
My score jumped back up to where it was when it left the Category front page (several days after the contest opened), when it had already picked up 80% of its current views. Once it was off the category front page (ie: main point of entry being the contest front page), its score steadily declined to a low of 4.30. After the sweeps, it's now just shy of a Red H, pretty much where it was before the contest readership kicked in.
Yes, there was a big sweep on mine last night, which had followed by just a few hours the second of two obvious concerted attacks on it in the two and a half weeks it's remained in second place. And after last night's big sweep on it, it's been knocked down massively again. It's fairly obvious where the attack is coming from--and why. But there will be another big sweep sometime on Monday/Tuesday and no opportunity to zap after that. And the response to this coauthored piece (have there been coauthored pieces in the contest before?) has been quite nice regardless.
None of mine look like they've changed at all.
Dear Laurel, could you at least sweep the one that's under 4.50?
But that old first-place story, it's just been cooking along for three weeks on the same number. No one knocks it down.
None of mine have budged an inch either way since yesterday.
Mine either...
Not sure if that's a good or bad thing?
Not only Laurel sweeps; some dedicated followers put me back in place. My vote/view rate increased significantly, and my score dropped.
I can't be sure, but it looks like so far, no-one gave me 1*s for my story. I wouldn't be surprised if bombers bomb strategically, knowing that sweeps exist which erase the real outliers. I wonder if 2* and 3* are the new 1-bombs; with my number of reads, they can easily handle it, and I do see that nice seesaw pattern which makes that my story doesn't cross a certain limit (they still have a bit of work to do after the last sweep, but also I'm no real threat, so don't bother)
Evidence this morning of a second sweep in two days. Works for me.
And, just like that, down again. Somebody's apparently got a hobby. Well, it matters little come royalty time, right?