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[Darkniciad]

I had no idea that you were so introspective, jimmy.

10-1 odds he thinks that's a medical procedure involving a certain posterior orifice.

Which -- oddly enough -- would be about the same meaning, where it applies to him.

 

[Guest]

a reading suggestion...

Hi, it’s [size=+2]Gabby[/size] again,

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Rod’s Sisters

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Gabrielle L.
literotican…actress…threadmaster’s assistant…lover…and
ALT killer…and
V.P. ScouriesWorld seminars…and
assistant accountant reporting to mr. tex…and
deputy art director reporting to miss (I’m in charge of bananas)…and
official committee member
literotica royalty distribution committee…and
friend of GBers…and
director of scouriesworld translation services…and
vice-president marketing –Orgasming Centres Inc….and finally
secretary, 1000+ VOTE CLUB
collins avenue
miami beach, florida

 

[Stella_Omega]

10-1 odds he thinks that's a medical procedure involving a certain posterior orifice.

Which -- oddly enough -- would be about the same meaning, where it applies to him.

I was laughing at your ransom note, and then I read this. Now you owe me a new beer!

 

[Darkniciad]

I was laughing at your ransom note, and then I read this. Now you owe me a new beer!

Hope a Fosters will do, because American beer is a lot like makin' love in a canoe -- it's fuckin' close to water!

Paraphrased from Eric Idle in the lead-in to the Philosopher's Song, Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl

 

[Stella_Omega]

Hope a Fosters will do, because American beer is a lot like makin' love in a canoe -- it's fuckin' close to water!

Paraphrased from Eric Idle in the lead-in to the Philosopher's Song, Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl

Which reminds me, I got a call from the Gallup poll people today-- they wanted to know about my drinking habits, and whether or not I bought into advertising. Do I choose my beer for less calories, or for flavor? flavor, babe. And cheapo-- in my town that means cervesa Tecate, in cans. Or that yellow one with the sea turtles. On the other hand, I don't drink all that much anyway.

But then she asked me if I thought my beer choice made me distinctive. ummm... kinda-sorta, in a Bud Lite world, sure. Did it make me a leader? uh, no. A trendsetter? nuh-uh. sexier, more attractive, smarter?

Honey, I said, my beer makes me less thirsty. And more buzzed. And do people REALLY answer 'yes' to any of these questions?

 

[Darkniciad]

they wanted to know about my drinking habits,

I don't usually drink in my habit, I save it for the kinky sex.

and whether or not I bought into advertising.

No, but they gave me one of them big Dracula stand-up thingies that they used to advertise for halloween once. Like I'm paying for it!

Do I choose my beer for less calories, or for flavor?

Which one gets me fucked up quicker?

But then she asked me if I thought my beer choice made me distinctive.

Depends upon what I eat with it. Throw some brats on top of it and WATCH OUT!

Did it make me a leader?

Depends on if I'm inside the circle of light when somebody goes missing, or whether I'm the one missing.

A trendsetter?

Think I saw that movie. From England, wasn't it?

sexier

Sex yer what?

more attractive

I always seem to have stuff stuck to my face when I wake up in the floor the next afternoon.

smarter?

Yeah, it usually hurts.

==========

Behold, the perils of boredom and lack of sleep.

 

[Sean]

SeanBCunt – go home to mommy little man. I don’t have time for children. And tell her to stop sending you ineffective pos(t)ers here to try to do her dirty work – tell her if she’s got anything to say she knows where to find me.

I'm fairly sure my mother wouldn't be sending me to the AH. She's more of a BDSM type.

 

[Sean]

Double.

 

[scouries]

More changes MANU????

MANU the MAGNIFICENT

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announced the following today:

SITE ANNOIUNCEMENTS
New Story Tags Portal BETA
________________________________________
I know - usually when I post news here, it's because something has gone wrong (or is about to). But not this time, friends!

This time, I'm posting some news about a new feature that we are testing out. Please meet the new and improved version of the Literotica Story Tags feature:

http://tags.literotica.com/

We've put a lot of work into this upgrade and we think it's pretty cool. Please check it out and see what you think.

he also posted this in his blog place(which I just found today):

[size=+2]Literotica Story Tags Portal Updated[/size]
April 15th, 2008

The Literotica Story Tags portal has been updated. The new version of the feature is live on the site now. This version is redesigned and includes the ability to browse stories using multiple tags and a way to easily add and remove tags from your search.
Please take a look and let us know what you think and report any problems you find. As with other updates, we’d also like to hear/read suggestions for the next version.
Thanks and enjoy!
Posted in Literotica, Site News | No Comments »

I also found this in his blog place (for some reason a site announcement wasn't made on this one - or I don't think one was made):

[size=+2]Literotica “Similar Stories” Beta Launch [/size]
April 11th, 2008

Just a quick update on the latest Literotica features. In the next few days we are getting ready to roll out a few new things in BETA. The first of those just went live on the site: Similar Stories
Take a look at this Literotica story to see what it looks like.
At the bottom right of the story, below the voting element and to the right of the comment element, there is a small section showing stories that are related or similar to this story.
Please take a look at the feature and let me know what you think. We hope that it will be another tool to help readers find what they are looking for within the ever-growing collection of published fiction at Literotica.
More new feature launches coming very soon. Check back!
Posted in Literotica, Site News | No Comments »

Scouries - Couple of quick reactions to the above:

1 – Have never used the “STORY TAGS PORTAL” before. I did a quick trial and tried to see if I could pull up a couple of my stories that featured lactation and wasn’t successful even after trying the words – lactation –milk – breast milk – etc.

2 – The “Similar Stories” idea looks promising but so far I’ve found very little correlation between my story and the ones that are listed as “SIMILAR”. Maybe you could let us know on what basis stories are selected as “similar”. Is it category? Or comments received? Or votes received? Or views? Or by a favorite author? Please advise. So far it looks like some more work has to be done to make this an effective tool.

3 – You write: More new feature launches coming very soon… we’d also like to hear/read suggestions for the next version... We've put a lot of work into this upgrade…

I’m sure you are doing a lot of work – this year has seen significant changes on the site. Since more new features are promised and you’d like to hear our suggestions let me again post something I posted back in January:

Jan 14: My only suggestion to you is that in future you’d be better off getting input from members before you start implementing changes. I’m sure you do some informal polling of friends etc., before you develop new ideas but its pretty accepted practice by most organizations today to get as much input as possible from ultimate users before you start to develop new plans.

You might start a thread that simply invited the members of LITEROTICA to tell you what they least like about how it presently operates. You might find that member’s priorities are significantly different than head offices.

And then once you’ve highlighted areas you’re planning on working on over the next year or so you might ask for specific suggestions.

Maybe you could post what specific changes you have planned for the next six months - give us some warning and a chance to send our ideas

jrs

 

[scouries]

more questions for my friend manu...

I also found this on Manu’s blog today:

MANU the MAGNIFICENT

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[size=+2]Update on Voting + Favorites Features[/size]
January 18th, 2008

Hi Everyone! I appreciate all of the suggestions that you have been sending in and posting, both here and on the Lit forum.

This will just be another quick update on the recent changes to the Literotica story page Voting Element and Add To Favorites buttons. So far, everything seems to be working fine. It’s still early, but voting seems to have increased slightly after the changes were launched on the site.
Since the launch, we have made the following additions changes, based on user feedback:

Voting Element:
1. The stars now have numbers on them, to link them more closely to the previous system where each vote was a number between one and five.
2. The text on a few of the votes has been changed. The current text for each vote is:
• 1. I Hated It!
• 2. I Didn’t Like It Much.
• 3. Liked It - Keep On Writing.
• 4. Really Liked It - Good Read!
• 5. Loved It - One Of The Best!!

Add To Favorites Button:

1. With the launch of the easy to use buttons, we’ve seen an increase in the number of registered users adding items to their Favorites List. Because of this, and based on current and previous user feedback, we have increased the number of “Favorites” that each user can have from 10 to 25 - for both Stories and Authors.

Additionally:

1. There has been some concern that the new voting system may result in a slight drop in the overall vote scores because readers may only give a “5″ to stories that they think are truly exceptional. I don’t know yet if the voting scores will go down at all based on the new system, but even if the middle did change slightly, it may not be a bad thing if the stories that score close to perfect are ones that readers felt were above and beyond the average.
2. We have had some questions asking about changing the voting system from a 1-5 system to a 1-10 system. That is something that we may consider for the future, but we don’t have immediate plans to do it.
3. Some members have been asking about the Public Comment Element (the system where you leave a public comment on a story) voting versus the new on-page voting element. We are already working on standardizing those two systems and, once the Public Comment Element is updated, readers will be able to leave a comment with or without voting.

I think that’s all I have for now. Just wanted to give everyone an update on what I’ve been working on and what’s concerns I’ve been hearing. Thanks for the ongoing feedback and another update should be coming soon!
Posted in Literotica, Site News | 1 Comment »

Seeing almost three months has passed since this January post on your blog I wonder if you could provide the promised update. Personally the questions that interest me are as follows:

1 - In January you said, “voting seems to have increased slightly after the changes were launched”. I wonder if you could let us know if this is still the case (or has voting increased a lot, or fallen back to what it was previously)? Up ten percent or fifty percent. And has the increase been felt in all categories or just some?

2 – You wrote in January, “I don’t know yet if the voting scores will go down at all based on the new system”. Now that it has been in use for four months can you tell us how much it has gone down. I think all of us recognize it has gone down and a fairly large amount at that. Has the average story score fallen 0.20 or 0.85? And as in question one could you tell us if the fall in scores affected all categories equally or did it affect different categories differently?

3 – What percent of stories now receive a H and how does this compare to prechange?

4 – You wrote then, “we’ve seen an increase in the number of registered users adding items to their Favorites List. I wonder if you could please quantify this Manu? Judging simply by my own ‘favorite author’ numbers it seems like it has increased by a factor of something like six times. Is this a representative number for the whole site?

5 – You wrote, “We are already working on standardizing those two systems and, once the Public Comment Element is updated, readers will be able to leave a comment with or without voting.” Is this change close to completion?

and finally,

6 - Is taking over the 1000+ VOTE CLUB one of the things you're working on? It would certainly help us out down here if you did.

I’m eagerly looking forward to receiving a reply, either here, or in SITE ANNOUNCEMENTS, or even on your blog (though I don’t believe that many people know about your blog so perhaps its best to post your reply in the forum).

james r scouries

 

[starrkers]

You know, if you hadn't thrown in that mindless sixth point, I would have added a hear hear to your last post.

 

[scouries]

votes...sweeps...

I opened the EARTH DAY SUPPORT THREAD for the first time today (yes, the same old story!) and found the following:
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DG HEAT QUOTE: I thought I was done posting for this contest but I need to know if anyone else is getting clobbered in the sweeps?
Yesterday I posted my stories votes after the big sweep. I got hit again yesterday. Have no idea why? I even came out with a new story this week that got posted in three parts the last three days. It even took a gigantic hit. It had nothing to do with the contest.
Heres my latest contest vote totals.

Now for my voting score.
Coal Miner Pt. 1 votes on 4/11 255 4/14 207 4/15 194
Coal Miner Pt. 2 votes on 4/11 182 4/14 156 4/15 128
Coal Miner Pt. 3 votes on 4/11 146 4/14 128 4/15 118
Coal Miner Pt. 4 votes on 4/11 250 4/14 175 4/15 165
The Judge votes on 4/11 183 4/14 156 4/15 146

I honestly don't understand. No new comments and reader total increase slowly. As far as averages, some up, some down.

Although I don’t like you very much Mr. HEAT I must say that I believe you may be one of the only other people who posts stories in contests and receives lots of votes and then gets hammered like I do. I don’t really care about the people who get 10 or 20 votes in a contest and then beg their friends for help – they clearly aren’t trying to appeal to the vast LITEROTICA public. They’re simply trying to sneak some unread story over the 25 vote barrier in the hopes of winning seventy-five or a hundred bucks. But it is sorta nice to know I’m not alone, that other popular authors are also getting hit.

Quite frankly the last three contests have been brutal – much worse than contests in other years. Even though I’ve always lost significant number of votes in the past it was nothing compared to this years contests. (I’d never heard of the word ‘sweeps’ until my first contest entry back in 2005 –Swimming With the Dolphins - lost about 250 votes – about 33% of its votes - the last weekend of the contest).

My one entry in this EARTH DAY CONTEST has been repeatedly swept and has lost about 75% of the votes cast for it. Which I find extremely bizarre given the fact that since the voting system was changed as far as I can gather it’s impossible to vote more than once for a story. Theory and common sense would dictate that the number of votes swept away would go way down. Yet they’re going up.

My Xmas story and my two Valentines Day stories lost more votes percentage wise than any other story I’ve ever posted.

Clearly something else is going on here. I wonder if Manu or Laurel will ever explain…

jrs

p.s. there is some good news though. Swimminig With the Dolphins, the 2005 story that lost some 250 votes in the contest sweeps way back when, slowly worked its way back to the top and fifteen months later hit the 1000 VOTE mark. It now has almost 1600.

And my 2007 HOLIDAY CONTEST entry, Candy Cane Cocked Cousin, which lost 1800 votes during the contest and finished with 766, has slowly added votes and is now closing in on its own place in the 1000+ VOTE CLUB.

I guess you can’t keep a good story down after all MANU!

 

[Stella_Omega]

My one entry in this EARTH DAY CONTEST has been repeatedly swept and has lost about 75% of the votes cast for it. Which I find extremely bizarre given the fact that since the voting system was changed as far as I can gather it’s impossible to vote more than once for a story. Theory and common sense would dictate that the number of votes swept away would go way down. Yet they’re going up.

My Xmas story and my two Valentines Day stories lost more votes percentage wise than any other story I’ve ever posted.

The answer is obvious, and has been talked about here. Either you or some fool fan of yours is auto-voting on your behalf.

Manu could hardly care less, dude, you are just one more writer out of the hundreds.

 

[scouries]

Sent to laurel today…

[size=+2]Dear Miss Laurel,[/size]

If it had been any other author I would have jumped in with both feet without a second thought.

But it wasn’t any other author – it was Miss Kitten and as everyone may or may not know there is a history between us. So, even though my fingers were just itching to be unleashed, I held them in check as I contemplated the issue.

After thinking about it I decided to let you know my opinion. Again. My argument here is not with the author herself but instead with the site. I feel if we continue to let it happen we’re opening ourselves up to horrid possibilities.

What am I talking about? The following, I saw it on the NEW STORY page today:

The Pond - He caught her skinny dipping in his pond.
Submitted by Daniellekitten (Exhibitionist & Voyeur) 04/16/08

I don’t read many of Miss K’s stories anymore but clicked this one open because I was pretty sure I’d seen it before. After reading a few paragraphs I knew I had read it before and quickly went to the bottom of the story. There, Miss K clearly noted it was an old story that had been up on LITEROTICA before (she probably should have mentioned this at the start but at least she wasn’t trying to foist something off on us – even if it was belatedly she did let us know).

LAUREL – As I told you once before, personally I don’t believe that a story that has been up on LITEROTICA, and has had its day in the sun on the NEW STORY page, and then has been taken off the site, should be put back on the NEW STORY page a second time if and when it’s author decides to repost it.

Quite simply it’s not fair to the other ten thousand authors who post here! Nor to our readers!

Imagine for a second if my friend from BOSTON, and the PILOT, Miss KITT, and say, Goldeniangel all decided to take their stories down and then repost them over a three or six month period. We’d have thousands of old stories choking out the NEW!

I’m quite happy ma’am to see you allow authors to repost old stories, but don’t put them in the NEW STORY section – they aren’t. Just put them back up on the author’s story page without comment or fanfare.

That’s my opinion anyway,

james r scouries

 

[Stella_Omega]

It's just the way the software works. Any story submitted is a new story, with a new ID number. It's simply not possible to identify a story out of the hundreds, and restore the ID that has been expunged from the database.

I question Danielle's re-submissions as well, but I don't worry that Manu or Laurel are personally involved in any way.

 

[Daniellekitten]

Here we go again with the stalking...sigh. Were you tired of not hearing from me? Is that why you had to drag my name back into your delusions again? Yes, I've been reposting a lot of my work and usually, I say right in my author's note that this is a repost. If you can't stand the thought of my work being on this site again, I think you need to take yourself back to your doctor and tell them to up yout antipsychotic drugs again.

All my love, Scouries,

Danielle

 

[sr71plt]

In principle, I think you have a discussible point. I've suggested before that I think authors should be limited to two or three submissions a week so that they don't hog the submissions process (and I restrict myself to no more than three submissions in a week). As far as the specifics, though, I don't see the Web site interested in--or capable, even, of--what you ask.

First, DK is a draw to the site; the Web site is, I'm sure, just as pleased as punch to be putting her stories back up. So, for their own self-interest I can't see them not putting the stories on the New list. Putting them there attracts business. (And if DK is identifying them as old stories being reposted, that's more notification than I would have expected to see).

Second, I can't see the site editors as having the time to identify and police what is an old story going back up.

It would be easier to police restricting the number of pace of new submissions, I think.

 

[Daniellekitten]

Oh now you've done it. All those people who are writing for the Survivor contest would go nuts if they were to restrict authors to only two or three submissions a week. Since I've been back on the site, I've had emails begging for my Hunters, so they are being reposted. I've had others asking for different stories and if I can, I submit them. Why should I deny the people who enjoy reading my work their favorites? Certainly not for a stalker like Scouries...

 

[Darkniciad]

The vast array of ways scouries rationalizes his own failures is simply mind boggling *laugh*

 

[sr71plt]

Oh now you've done it. All those people who are writing for the Survivor contest would go nuts if they were to restrict authors to only two or three submissions a week. Since I've been back on the site, I've had emails begging for my Hunters, so they are being reposted. I've had others asking for different stories and if I can, I submit them. Why should I deny the people who enjoy reading my work their favorites? Certainly not for a stalker like Scouries...

Yes, the Survivor Contest people would go nuts, I'm sure. I'm equally irritated when I see three "stories" by one of these folks on the New list on that seventh day after I've entered a single story and it's still not posted.

And you obviously get no kick from me on reposting your stories (as I said in my last posting). If your stories were not put on the new list, fairness would dictate that they repost with the ratings and comments they had on them to begin with--which, I assume would be impossible to do.

Of course you know what I think about your having taken them off to begin with . . .

 

[Daniellekitten]

Yes, the Survivor Contest people would go nuts, I'm sure. I'm equally irritated when I see three "stories" by one of these folks on the New list on that seventh day after I've entered a single story and it's still not posted.

And you obviously get no kick from me on reposting your stories (as I said in my last posting). If your stories were not put on the new list, fairness would dictate that they repost with the ratings and comments they had on them to begin with--which, I assume would be impossible to do.

Of course you know what I think about your having taken them off to begin with . . .

Yeah, and in a lot of ways I'm in agreement. To let something like what happened here go on and for me to get so upset by it was completely ridiculous. I'm thinking it had to be PMS.

Scouries can do and say what he wants. I just recieved my fourth real royalty check and I have another publisher now with a first book coming out in June through them. I am posting new work and will continue to do so until I feel like stopping.

 

[Stella_Omega]

...If your stories were not put on the new list, fairness would dictate that they repost with the ratings and comments they had on them to begin with--which, I assume would be impossible to do....

That's true, they start from the bottom again. Some people will have the pleasure of having voted twice and not being swept!

 

[Darkniciad]

Clearly something else is going on here. I wonder if Manu or Laurel will ever explain…

I guess you can’t keep a good story down after all MANU!

Isn't it about time for you to report the vastness of the royalty checks from these evil people who so conspire to keep you down?
http://darken.0catch.com/smilies/lmao.gif

What's really funny is that he doesn't appear to have the slightest inkling just how idotic he sounds spouting those two polar opposites a few posts apart all the time

 

[sr71plt]

Isn't it about time for you to report the vastness of the royalty checks from these evil people who so conspire to keep you down?
http://darken.0catch.com/smilies/lmao.gif

What's really funny is that he doesn't appear to have the slightest inkling just how idotic he sounds spouting those two polar opposites a few posts apart all the time

No I think he doesn't "get it." He obviously doesn't "get" that when he whines about 75% of a huge number of votes being swept from his stories, the inference we take is that he has massively cheated to begin with and that the editors only have to sweep because of what he--or someone else in his favor (which I don't find to be too likely)--has done to begin with. If he "got" that, he'd keep his mouth shut through the sweeps and just be happy with whatever cheated numbers he managed to get by the sweeps.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Since what he's got left is still outrageous and ridiculous, anyway.