SanityCheck
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I'd like the community's opinion on voting for your own submissions.
I'll admit I vote for my own submissions in two situations.
1) The story has been sitting at 9 votes with a 4.5 score or higher for a couple of weeks. I'm not too hung up on voting, but I like seeing a red H as much as anyone. If the number of votes hasn't moved in several weeks, I'll vote to push it over the top. If it's less than 4.5 I don't bother because I wouldn't get the 'Hot' banner anyway.
2) If I think my story was unfairly punished. A perfect example of this is I got a one vote because the voter thought the story should be in Love Wives instead of Romance.
In the story, the heroine has a fling with the hero. They connect online and then after some weeks flirting online, decide to meet and make it physical.
I wrote the story to intentionally lead the reader into thinking this was a straight up story of a man and woman cheating on their spouse, but in the last half-chapter it is revealed they are husband and wife and are role playing to try to get some passion back into their marriage.
If, after you know the ending, you read the story again, you would realize all the things the hero said that would have originally been taken as come-ons and pickup lines was actually him (and her) reassuring their spouse they wouldn't actually cheat on the other, and the little clues I'd dribbled into the story that suggest there was more to this than simply cheating suddenly pop out.
If the reader had missed the point I might have let it go, but the reader specifically pointed out how even though it was a husband and wife doing this, it was STILL a Loving Wives story because they were pretending to cheat, and they should be punished for doing so because life has consequences for their actions.
I voted on that story to offset the 1 vote the reader proudly gave me.
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So, I'm wondering if I'm breaking some honor among writers by occasionally voting on my own works, or if its a common practice, or their's no consensus.
Thank you in advance for any feedback.
I'll admit I vote for my own submissions in two situations.
1) The story has been sitting at 9 votes with a 4.5 score or higher for a couple of weeks. I'm not too hung up on voting, but I like seeing a red H as much as anyone. If the number of votes hasn't moved in several weeks, I'll vote to push it over the top. If it's less than 4.5 I don't bother because I wouldn't get the 'Hot' banner anyway.
2) If I think my story was unfairly punished. A perfect example of this is I got a one vote because the voter thought the story should be in Love Wives instead of Romance.
In the story, the heroine has a fling with the hero. They connect online and then after some weeks flirting online, decide to meet and make it physical.
I wrote the story to intentionally lead the reader into thinking this was a straight up story of a man and woman cheating on their spouse, but in the last half-chapter it is revealed they are husband and wife and are role playing to try to get some passion back into their marriage.
If, after you know the ending, you read the story again, you would realize all the things the hero said that would have originally been taken as come-ons and pickup lines was actually him (and her) reassuring their spouse they wouldn't actually cheat on the other, and the little clues I'd dribbled into the story that suggest there was more to this than simply cheating suddenly pop out.
If the reader had missed the point I might have let it go, but the reader specifically pointed out how even though it was a husband and wife doing this, it was STILL a Loving Wives story because they were pretending to cheat, and they should be punished for doing so because life has consequences for their actions.
I voted on that story to offset the 1 vote the reader proudly gave me.
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So, I'm wondering if I'm breaking some honor among writers by occasionally voting on my own works, or if its a common practice, or their's no consensus.
Thank you in advance for any feedback.
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