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High concept yes, but not too much for the site. (Or do you mean simply the contest?) I hope you publish it at some point; I'd like to read it.
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High concept yes, but not too much for the site. (Or do you mean simply the contest?) I hope you publish it at some point; I'd like to read it.
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It just doesn't qualify to win/place/show.
The problem is that low vote totals don't give representative results. Some people (myself included) would argue that twenty five is too low to get a representative result.
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Thanks. I really don't much care about winning; I just want to play with the big kids. That's probably a good thing; I'm a raw rookie, trying to learn.
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Welcome, then. Your story will be listed on the contest page and that generally brings a lot of votes. Good luck.
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Lol. Already done
: https://www.literotica.com/s/in-search-of-a-story
A piss take, in response to contest stupidity the year I first wandered by AH.
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You tempt me, sir!
Lol. Already done
https://www.literotica.com/s/in-search-of-a-story
A piss take, in response to contest stupidity the year I first wandered by AH.
Ha! I stand corrected. That was great. I'll admit I have not waded into this category much. Suddenly I want to write some surrealist erotica, if it were to play well there.
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Not for this one, although I find I have three already for Halloween. The theme of nudity falls short of erotica for me, so I have trouble coming up with ideas for this contest. I do take the story beyond just nudity, but it's the only contest here that I have to overshoot the theme to get a story.
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I have a story that's at about 85-90% complete.
I'm not sure about "category". It's set on a canoe trip. It features an interracial couple where the woman is trying to get the man to be nude outside more often. It has fairly vanilla sex (but always remember what a great flavour vanilla is), under the Northern Lights, and an unitentionally ruined orgasm (humour). Soiler alert: They get unexpected visitors. (Also humour).
Erotic Couplings?
Interracial?
Exhibitionist/ Voyeur?
Humour?
BDSM because of the ropes on the tent and food bag?
I'd appreciate any guidance.
I'm not sure about "category". It's set on a canoe trip. It features an interracial couple where the woman is trying to get the man to be nude outside more often. It has fairly vanilla sex (but always remember what a great flavour vanilla is), under the Northern Lights, and an unitentionally ruined orgasm (humour). Soiler alert: They get unexpected visitors. (Also humour).
Erotic Couplings?
Interracial?
Exhibitionist/ Voyeur?
Humour?
BDSM because of the ropes on the tent and food bag?
I'd appreciate any guidance.
NotWise
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Standings aren't announced.
If you're curious, then you can monitor the standings yourself. That is time consuming, then the final standings are often switched around by the last sweep, and they last only briefly after the results are announced.
Just the same, if you have the time and curiosity then monitoring the standings might help you understand how it all works.
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I'm not even sure how the final rankings are decided. It doesn't seem to be just the high scores, so the number of votes must be included, plus...?
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The winner is the story with the highest rating after the final sweep, as long as the entry still has a minimum of 25 votes remaining after the sweep. Apart from the 25 minimum, total numbers of votes for an entry are irrelevant.
Unfortunately for those of us wanting to know our relative position at the time the contest is decided, the trolls can attack the higher rated stories immediately after the contest result is announced. What WAS the highest rated story can drop its rating significantly in the next few hours.
PS. In the past, having a low vote total might have been an advantage because a final sweep on a story with say 50 votes could change the rating significantly. That sweep on a story with several hundred votes would affect the rating minimally.
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Thanks for the clarification.
I suspect that the trolls also stop their systematic one-bombing when results are announced, with some stories climbing thereafter.
I suspect that the trolls also stop their systematic one-bombing when results are announced, with some stories climbing thereafter.
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That varies a lot. The final sweeps can push a story to a score that the readers don't support, and it's fairly common for very high scores to fall after the contest. That isn't necessarily from trolls, but from people voting 4*s instead of 5*. Some scores climb after the contest, but it isn't a consistent pattern.
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Over the years I have had a few comments on my winning stories that anon has voted a 4 because although my story was good, they didn't think it was good enough to win, and one anon said that someone else's story was better.
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You may be right. I'm just going on my admittedly limited experience. I have a very energetic troll who seems to lose interest once the results are announced.
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Alas, not by me. Too much on the go as it is. I was a bit disappointed I never got my geek one done, and I'm a bit to heavily committed right now. Next time tho
Looking forward to reading a few of them though.
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The Valentine's Day contest was interesting to watch this year, which I followed several times a day since I shared in a story that was in the hunt (my sr71plt, with Sabb, under the name Shabbu). There was a story that remained rock solid in first or second place during the contest. The several stories that came close to it got knocked down a peg periodically. But that one story, by a first-time author or a rarely published author, if I remember correctly, just stayed right in place, not going up or down more than a point (at 4.88) the whole time while all stories around it got knocked down if they challenged for place. Not sure this author realized the power of the sweeps. The Shabbu story won and immediately got knocked down four points. Won at 4.89. It now sits at 4.80. Still a very nice score, and it has a blue W beside it. (So does the other one, of course.) I let the winnings go to Sabb and he used it to put TVs in his vacation rentals in Spain.
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About 2/3 through mine. Hopefully, it'll be done in a day or two.
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Mine went up a few days ago, early trolling but its leveled out now, just the norm for contests
Good luck everyone who is in already and those racing toward the deadline
Good luck everyone who is in already and those racing toward the deadline
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