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Was thinking of writing another story for the contest but the old mind isn't helping me. First two stories aren't doing the best but I kind of expected that with a Loving wife followed by an Incest. LOL
Oh well, we'll see.
DG
We can sumite 2 stories for the contest? What's the max?
One thing I hate about contests - they get sweeps going like mad.
Just lost at least one vote from three of my stories in the past two days, and like I've said before I don't have any to spare.
Even if two of them were 1-bombs and removing one of them helped get my newest story back on a red H, I still resent the sweeps. 'Cause it's kind of flattering to think that someone sees a need to troll me with low scores.
Will be interesting to see if sun's next contest analysis include sweep data.
For the record, TimothyM, I don't perceive your comment as "bitching" about the sweep system or voting, your comment just triggered my sweep/voting based rant.
One thing I hate about contests - they get sweeps going like mad.
Just lost at least one vote from three of my stories in the past two days, and like I've said before I don't have any to spare.
Even if two of them were 1-bombs and removing one of them helped get my newest story back on a red H, I still resent the sweeps. 'Cause it's kind of flattering to think that someone sees a need to troll me with low scores.
Will be interesting to see if sun's next contest analysis include sweep data.
Speaking of information, people keep asking how the sweeps work and what is involved. That is like installing a burglar alarm in your home and posting the schematics on the front lawn.
You can probably blame a lot of the bombing on him also. It's his way of trying to discourage people from entering the real contests.
It is early for a contest sweep. More than likely it is the start of the end of the month sweeps.
I could use a few more reads and comments on my story. That one little comment is getting a bit lonely. It's quite short, just one page and an additional paragraph.
Kissing the Ghost
There is no such thing as AIR except in scouries head. All the contests he rants about are all fake. All the Awards he trys to pass off as real are fake. Then there are all his lists that are, you guessed it, fake.
Since scouries is the only one who has any say (vote) in or on his fake contests, you can guess who voted a fake contest number anything. Poor delusional scouries.
Thank you for your time.
I don't know where the truth lies or what egregious slights (real or imagined) may have happened in the past between people.
...The only real headscratcher here is why the Web site hasn't just rubbed all his nonsense out years ago as detrimental to their business.
You know, as a relative "newbie" on this site (compared to others) - I've stayed out of the Scouries fray. I've sighed at the constant battle that seems to be waged without a historical understanding of it. On one hand, it's felt very odd to me that someone would be allowed to run a concurrent contest within a site. It felt very odd to me that someone who be so bored that they would put the time and effort into making the many posts that Scouries does and to what end? What could it gain him? On the opposite hand has been his constant naysayers regularly sending up the alarm. To this outsider, it feels very weird. I don't know where the truth lies or what egregious slights (real or imagined) may have happened in the past between people.
Scouries hawks himself as the number 1 writer on Lit. The thing is, he has never won any real contest on Lit. Not a Monthly, Special, or Year End. To him, the problem is the AH and Lit Management are cheating him out of these awards. So his way of dealing with it is two fold. One he sets ups his own List of Views & Votes to associate his mane with the top writers on this site. Two, he sets up his own fake contests and awards so he can win something even if he is the only one who has a say (vote) on the matter.
The naysayers are doing what they are doing to warn newbies about his lies, haldtruths, and bullshit. He ran off several new people here in the AH before we started doin this. I have nothing personal against scouries, just his bullshit and lies.
In general, I believe I've laid relatively low - afraid of attracting a legion of "one-bombs" from one faction or the other. Honestly, I don't know where the truth lies or if all turns out to be a modern day version of the "Hatfields v McCoys." That said, on a whim, I took a look at the rules for Scouries's contest and I'm left with questions... From his rules:
"You can begin submitting your stories on January 17th and up until February 10th . We encourage all contestants to submit their stories as early in the submission window as possible. Those authors who try to abuse the system by entering their stories at the very last hour (using the infamous darkboy technique) will risk having their stories disqualified."
Scouries thinks that if you wait until the last minute you can win because the number of votes will be low and only a writers fans will know it's out there. Plus scouries won't have time to drop all his low vote bombs on it.
What's the point of having an announced ending date if it doesn't count as an actual ending date? Based on the wording of this rule, submitting a story on Feb 10th potentially means its disregarded under the "darkboy" ruling? Doesn't that make the effective deadline Feb. 9th? If the effective deadline is Feb. 9th, then why not say so? And if it deadline becomes Feb. 9th, would an entry still become invalidated as being a "last minute entry" if it was made on the 9th? If so, that makes the effective entry date Feb. 8th. And if....
"The winners will be announced on or around February 14th"
I've always hated this sort of nebulous wording. "On or around..." So, does that mean Feb 13th? Feb 15th? I don't know. And why take so much heat with announcing your winners two days after the official ending date of the Lit contest? So you don't steal Lit's thunder? So you can see who wins there, first? It's suspicious at worst and misleading at best.
Exactly. Since everyone who wins is a cheater in the real contest he wouldn't want the same people on his fake list.
"PLEASE NOTE: While the LITEROTICA Valentines Day Contest runs at the same time as the A.I.R. Contest the two are totally separate and run under a different set of rules."
Why would the site owners/moderators allow this and not advertise it on their main page? Seems as if promoting a secondary contest would add to the site. Instead, it's only allowed to run as an advertisement in the forums? I applaud the site owners/moderators' hands-off approach to things, but I believe their silence on this issue speaks volumes against it.
It is a fake contest so why would they advertise it?
"- Prizes will be awarded in the following categories (a story can only win one prize in each contest):
1) Best Overall Story
2) Most Views
3) Most Comments
4) Most Votes
5) Highest Score
6) Most Favorited"
I like the idea of awarding prizes for different criteria than mere votes alone - however, what ARE these prizes? Lit.com mentions them specifically and I can personally vouch for Lit's awarding of prizes. I've made good use of the runner-up prize I earned in last year's Survivor Contest.
There are no prizes in a fake contest. The only reason for the contest at all is to disrupt and delute the real contest.
"- A story has to accrue a minimum of 250 votes to be eligible (higher in some categories). The vote, comment, view, favorite, and score numbers that are reported by LITEROTICA will be used subject to final verification by the A.I.R. Computer Center."
Um, which other categories? Shouldn't those categories be listed in the rules? I guess we're left to guess what they are?
Any category he so choices since he is the only one with a say (vote). And the 250 vote rule would mean most of the categories would be left out.
"- Authors are prohibited from voting or commenting on their own stories. Their votes on competing stories will also be swept away."
This rule feels the most suspicious to me. Without access to the Lit server, how can Scouries (or anyone else for that matter) know who voted for whom? I haven't found the setting that allows me to see which IP addresses voted for my stories or anyone else's. I don't believe such a setting exists for the average user to access. What prevents me from making an anonymous statement on my story or anyone else's?
He has no idea who voted for what, anymore than any of the rest of us. It is his way of pointing out what he thinis is cheating.
"- It must be erotic in content.
- Non-Human/Science-Fiction category stories will not be accepted in this contest.
- Story must not exceed 5 LITEROTICA pages in length (20,000 words)."
Each of these rules feel arbitrary to me. Non-erotic, Non-Human, and Novella are three categories for Lit. Why not allow them in this contest? Why the word limit on a contest that is based on readership? Readers shouldn't be allowed to read this material? Sorry, but I don't allow others to approve my tastes in subject matter or its length.
He doesn't think non-erotic should be allowed in the contests period. He also thinks Non-Human/Science-Fiction win too many contests so they are out also. He also thinks long stories have an unfair advantage.
"- Each author is allowed only one submission (under his name and his various ALTS – ie darkboy and the lesslight ALT are allowed only one entry - not two) per contest. "
Without special access to Lit server records or an announcement on the part of the author, how is one to know an entry was submitted by an alt? Suspicious at best. I suppose one could suggest identity based on writing style, but that's not the sort of evaluation that could be done by an amateur.
He has no way of know who is who, anymore than the rest of us. He uses alts all the time and thinks everyone else does also.
"-An exception to this rule has been made for Top 25 “Most Favorited” authors – they are allowed two or three depending upon their ranking."
Aside from invalidating the previous rule, this rule leaves me wondering; if I was the Top 13 favored author, could I submit two or three stories?
He doesn't care about the top 25 authors one way or the other except to throw their names around. He just doesn't want anyone else to post more than one story. See his alt rule aboe. The same thing.
"- No character may be named Pauletta."
It's your contest and your rules - so whatever. I guess you can say you will only allow stories that use the word "dickhead" at least six times. That said, I'm uncomfortable with any contest that impedes my ability to name my characters any name I want.
Pauletta is a reacurring character that Box uses in a lot of stories. Scouries hate the character for two reasons. One Pauletta is a transvestite and scouries is over the top homophobic. Two, he thinks if the same character is in teo stories they are chapters. He does not understand sequals at all because it doesn't suit his arguements
"- Don’t just submit some rehashed story you’ve been working on for years. We want something fresh. Be creative!"
Does this mean I should hold on to my period piece set in the 1970's before computers and cell phones were everywhere? It's a new story that I just wrote, I promise! I mean, seriously, how is this distinction made?
No this means he wants you to throw out some trash you wrote in fifteen minutes like he does.
"- A.I.R. reserves the right to disqualify without notice or explanation any story in which any kind of cheating or vote-tampering is suspected."
How is this measured? What classifies as cheating or vote-tampering? Would including a note at the end of the story soliciting votes be cheating? What if I list the story in my signature line? What if I make a public forum announcement of my post? How "suspected" does the suspicion need to be? Can I post MY suspicions in a forum? Or am I somehow disqualified from making an accusation, too?
This is scouries rule to disqualify anyone he doesn't like.
"- Every story that meets the above criteria and is submitted to LITEROTICA during the contest period will be automatically entered into the A.I.R. contest. No special submission form must be filled out. We believe in inclusivity!"
Hm, I entered every Lit contest last year, I don't recall seeing any of my stories included in a second contest. Perhaps I was disqualified in some way I didn't realize? I also don't remember seeing a listing of my story (along with the other stories in the competition), ala http://www.literotica.com/stories/contest.php/valentines-day-2013 If there's no where for me to submit my story, how do I know I entered? What if I ONLY want to participate in the A.I.R. contest and not the Lit.com contest? What am I to do then? How will people know I'm a contestant in the A.I.R. contest?
All that means is that scouries uses the stories submitted to the contest and any story he finds on the new list with the right name on it. It doesn't even have to be on theme.
"- If you have any questions regarding any of the above or anything pertaining to our contests, feel free to contact me by PM or email, or post any questions you have on this thread."
I don't have any interest in hijacking one of Scouries's threads with my doubts and concerns. I don't see any announcements in his contest thread inviting people to enter the official Lit.com contest. so I'll leave my comments here where I see the constant back and forth between Scouries and others along with one more thought: I see lots of naysayers against Scouries, but I apparently miss seeing his equally passionate defenders. Interesting and telling.
What's equally interesting (and not added to my original thoughts): if entry into the A.I.R. contest is automatic with a submission to the Lit.com contest, why haven't I seen any "Thank You's" from the winners. Seems insincere on the part of the winners not to mention their win in the other contest. Unless, of course, the other contest IS insincere. Hm....