JuanSeiszFitzHall
yet another
- Joined
- Jun 30, 2019
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Math tells me that, after the contest closed, to get from 4.93 to 4.81, the new 19 votes averaged 4.63. You could see that as a dive, but I see it as a reasonable result of people checking out a story that placed in a contest. It's still a really good score, for what might be thought of as regression to the mean.Oh boy, not me! My contest placement gave the story a huge boost in terms of views and votes, and I had nearly the same number of views in the first 16 hours after the announcement as I did in the five days prior to that. At the time I placed I had 28 votes, and now I have 47, not quite 24 hours later. But the score took a dive. It's down to 4.81 now, from 4.93. I don't care that much, because the score still is high enough to get it a lot of attention and people are going to read it, and that's what I care about. But still, it's hard not to draw the conclusion that contest placements are bad for the score.