Ratings

[EmilyMiller]

I like to think of myself as a catalyst.

Or is that a cataclysm? I can never tell!

Or this type of cataclysm?

 

[onehitwanda]

Or this type of cataclysm?

cat-astrophe

 

[Bamagan]

cat-astrophe

 

[EmilyMiller]

cat-astrophe

Cataleptic?

 

[EmilyMiller]

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That is very clever

 

[onehitwanda]

Cataleptic?

narcoleptzzzzzz

or is that catatonic?

we're getting a bit silly here. fur will fly soon.

 

[EmilyMiller]

narcoleptzzzzzz

or is that catatonic?

we're getting a bit silly here. fur will fly soon.

 

[Zootonius]

It's very easy to work out the structure of the site from the html. Every story [in the new layout] has a small section of html with the following id: tabpanel-info

nested within this will be the following elements:

<div class="aT_H" title="Rating"><i class="icon icon-star aT_ck"></i><span class="aT_cl">4.38</span></div>
<div class="aT_H" title="Views"><i class="icon icon-diagram aT_ck"></i><span class="aT_cl">1.4k</span></div>
<div class="aT_H" title="Favorites"><i class="icon icon-heart aT_ck aT_rn"></i><span class="aT_cl">7</span></div>
<div class="aT_H" title="Comments"><i class="icon icon-comment aT_ck aT_ro"></i><a title="Link to comments" class="aT_cl aT_mG" href="/s/${story-identifier}/comments">15</a></div>

there are a multiplicity of html parsing libraries that can extract these values.

Simplistically, what you'd do is:

1. index the new page
2. extract links to all stories listed there
3. visit each story page, extract the data above and write it to a database.

it's a couple of hours work for a competent software engineer. The hardest part is not running foul of any heuristics detection that sees spammy requests coming from a single ip or ip address range.

oh. shit. I put my geek hat on for a moment and look what happens.

Gracious, is there know end to your talents @onehitwanda ? Next you’ll be telling me you know Regex*

*spellcheck wanted to turn regex into Rebecca.

 

[AG31]

The single centre of truth is your Control Panel, which is the only place that shows updates in real time. For example, if you vote on your own story, you'll see the Vote count notch up by one, immediately.

All other places where data such as followers, story counts, story rating and so on are shown, they're always subject to server refresh lags (at different times of the day), or they never ever catch up.

Very helpful.

 

[onehitwanda]

Gracious, is there know end to your talents @onehitwanda ? Next you’ll be telling me you know Regex*

*spellcheck wanted to turn regex into Rebecca.

s/b(o)(o)bs/)/g

edit: silly site. I bite my thumb at thee!

 

[Zootonius]

s/b(o)(o)bs/)/g

edit: silly site. I bite my thumb at thee!

Dammit, now I have to validate that!

 

[StillStunned]

At least 99 now…

Em

Thanks! You and another reader got me to 100 ratings. So now I can unequivocally state that "Flesh for Fantasy" is worth its 4.8 stars.

 

[BobbyBrandt]

What is a decent rating on a story
? This is based on the 1-5 scale. I would like to hear your comments

Isn't it always a matter of perspective?

Categories certainly play a role, but nothing impacts a story's rating more than its value to those readers who take the time to peruse it.

I attempt to always write value-based stories, and I think for a large part, I am successful in doing so. Writing stories that speak to the values (fetishes, kinks, etc.) of my target audience, whether it is in one of the categories here or in my mainstream publishing areas is reflected in the ratings (sales of books), as well as in the feedback readers provide.

I view a rating here as a measurement of the value that the reading audience derived from reading the story. Not every reader will have the same value scale for any particular story, but I take it for granted that readers in any particular category here will share some common values (fetishes, kinks, etc.). So, as long as I don't stray too far from what I perceive those values to be, or deviate from them entirely, I should receive a rating and feedback commensurate with the value I delivered.

With a rating scale between 1 and 5, I place my minimum value threshold at 2.5. Anything below that obviously failed to deliver appreciative value to the target audience. Everything above that is a measurement of the value level derived from the story.

 

[onehitwanda]

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Scores.

show us on the verb where the bad man gerunded you, hon.

 

[dadadadiox]

But well-thought-out negative ones as well.

Well-meaning, constructive criticism can be as helpful as any positive comment.

 

[dadadadiox]

Ratings are strongly influenced by category and page length
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The first number is what percentage of all stories published in that category have that many pages. The second number is the average rating for that category and number of pages. This is for stories published from 8/30 to 10/13, 28 days after they were published. So 55% (39 out of 71) of the stories published in Anal from 8/30 to 10/13 were 1 page in length. Those one-page stories had an average rating of 4.28 on 28 days after they were published.

I'm a numbers and math geek. This is cool.

 

[dadadadiox]

I write with the hope it will evoke an emotional reaction. Love or hate are both acceptable reactions. So, to me, essentially, the rating isn't all that important. Yes, I like having a red H, but I don't need it to feel good about a story. I'm not the best writer. I'm not the worst. Where I fall between the two extremes isn't something I can calculate. I'm adequate for the type of writing I do, and I hope my work improves with each story. All quibbling about scores doesn't change the kind of writer, the quality of the work, or type of story we tell. Putting too much stock in votes only deflates or inflates your opinion of yourself.

Well, that's my opinion, and I value my opinion over other folks views. For better or worse, I am what I am.

This is news to no one here, but the best is when you can get them to love a character, become attached, and then pull the rug out and make them loathe the same character. I get very few comments here, but on other writing sites (not the porny ones) I've had readers say they hate me for ruining that character for them. That's when I know I've written well. Then I work on redemption. When that turn is complete... it's gold.

 

[dadadadiox]

What is a decent rating on a story
? This is based on the 1-5 scale. I would like to hear your comments

I try to approach it like school grades. In my brain, a 3.75 rating is 75% approval and that's not bad. A 4.0 rating is 80% and the coveted red H is 90%. When you accept that a score under 4.0 is still a decent rating you become less concerned with those results.

I confess to using the ratings as a gauge because I get few comments. Numbers are all I have. The first chapter in my non-erotic story that scored low was the one where my character turned 18 and I got him laid... in a very brief non-erotic scene.
I'm taking that as a sign the NE crew wants a smut-free story. I won't deliver a PG rating now that my MC is of legal Literorica age, but I won't make it an X rating either. I'll take the slightly lower scores to write the story I want.

Why I get no comments is of bigger concern to me than mediocre numbers. That's a discussion I plan on launching. Maybe now in a new thread.

 

[Zootonius]

show us on the verb where the bad man gerunded you, hon.

That reminds me of a story years ago about a ballot measure (in NJ, I think). A single sentence of 200-300 words. It was pointed out there was no verb to be found.

 

[AchtungNight]

After consideration and recognition that many of my stories are actually multi-category despite Lit’s system, I’m leaving ratings off. People can read me or not, and hopefully they will give positive or constructive feedback. I will go by that for improvement suggestions over vague scores.

 

[luv2custrip]

I’ve said it before but I also look at number of favorites. I have some oddities: 4 favorites for a 4.64 story; 19 favorites for a 4.18 story.
My point is ratings change but few readers “unfavorite.”

 

[MillieDynamite]

I'm sorry, what were we talking about? I've been looking at the screencaps, and my mind has lost my train of thought.

Its not the math, that's always come easy to me, its the fact people waste so much time on this and other people get all googly eyed over it that makes me skip the graphs and commentary on them.

 

[luv2custrip]

I'm sorry, what were we talking about? I've been looking at the screencaps, and my mind has lost my train of thought.

Yeah, I think it’s time to go back to the naked pictures.

 

[M_K_Babalon]

Yeah, I think it’s time to go back to the naked pictures.

If it's the ones that most of these folks post; hard pass.

 

[FiveInch033]

Okay. I struggle with math.
Could someone explain the rating system? What do the numbers mean? What is each catagory actually measuring?
Break this down for me.