Monthly Readers Choice Awards

[timmywells]

I was curious about the Monthly Readers Choice Awards. I don't have a vested interest in it, but I noticed that the three winners for December 2008 were just posted, and they all happen to be chapters of stories rather than actual stories.

Looking back, I see that this has also been the case in the past. Four times in the last six months the three award winners have all been chapters of stories.

Does this strike anyone else as being strange? Not that it's any easier to do well with a chapter than an entire story - in fact it may be tougher to sustain interest in an extended tale - and if I'm out of line here, I apologize. I'm not a disgruntled loser, but just curious. Would a reader notice that "Humping my Teacher Ch. 20" won an monthly award for best story and decide to go back and read that chapter? It seems unlikely that one could read that fragment of a story and make any sense of it.

 

[Darkniciad]

I addressed this a while back:

http://forum.literotica.com/showthread.php?t=628840

Doesn't seem like that many people give a flying fig *laugh*

 

[Guest]

I was curious about the Monthly Readers Choice Awards. I don't have a vested interest in it, but I noticed that the three winners for December 2008 were just posted, and they all happen to be chapters of stories rather than actual stories.

Looking back, I see that this has also been the case in the past. Four times in the last six months the three award winners have all been chapters of stories.

Does this strike anyone else as being strange? Not that it's any easier to do well with a chapter than an entire story - in fact it may be tougher to sustain interest in an extended tale - and if I'm out of line here, I apologize. I'm not a disgruntled loser, but just curious. Would a reader notice that "Humping my Teacher Ch. 20" won an monthly award for best story and decide to go back and read that chapter? It seems unlikely that one could read that fragment of a story and make any sense of it.

The readers are who made those chapters the winners for that month. They take the rating of the stories that is who determines who wins the monthlies and who takes the category nominations.

And welcome to Lit.

 

[Darkniciad]

The readers are who made those chapters the winners for that month. They take the rating of the stories that is who determines who wins the monthlies and who takes the category nominations.

And welcome to Lit.

Yes, but chaptered stories do have an unfair advantage. Those who don't like the story stop reading and voting as the story goes along which ( barring troll attacks or a turn that the readers don't like ) means that the score tends to rise with each new chapter.

A one-shot story has one chance to make the cut, one chance to escape the trolls, one shot to attract new readers, etc.

 

[DG Hear]

Chapter stories are usually followed by faithful followers of the authors and specific stories. This would give the tendency to have less readers but higher scores.

Trolls or readers not interested in certain categories don't usually jump in to read middle of chapter of stories.

I have won the monthly award in a chapter story, but I do feel there should be some type of judging on the completed story.

Literotica seems to have more and more chapter stories posted daily. I find myself usually staying away from reading them till a numbe of chapters have been posted. In some cases the stories were never finished.

Having said all that, I do understand that we as authors get to post here free and as far as the contests go we really don't have a say in it. Submit or don't submit? The choice is ours.
With respect
DG Hear

 

[michchick98]

As one of the past winners with a chapter of a story, about all I can guess is that the readers liked that chapter better than the others or the other stories that posted for that particular month.

Although, I have had a few people tell me that because of that winning chapter, they went back and read the whole story first, so in that instance it did attract new readers for me.

I think thats one of the reasons multi-chapter stories have been disallowed in special contests....of course, it also cuts down on number of entries, too.

 

[timmywells]

The readers are who made those chapters the winners for that month. They take the rating of the stories that is who determines who wins the monthlies and who takes the category nominations.

And welcome to Lit.

Thank you, and thanks to all that responded. I understand how the winners are dertermined. It was the part about a chapter not actually being a "story" that threw me.

I only noticed this when I was looking for something to read and wandered onto the contest page. The staggering number of "chapter" submissions these days makes reading a challenge.

Thanks again.

 

[DG Hear]

Thank you, and thanks to all that responded. I understand how the winners are dertermined. It was the part about a chapter not actually being a "story" that threw me.

I only noticed this when I was looking for something to read and wandered onto the contest page. The staggering number of "chapter" submissions these days makes reading a challenge.

Thanks again.

I totally agree Tim. I've been trying to submit full stories even though I do have a few chapter stories. Sometimes a story just gets somewhat long so I find a good place start a second chapter. I never start submitting a chapter story until the story is completed.

I never cared to wait days to read more about a story I started. I choose to submit chapter stories a chapter each day till all have been submitted.

Good luck on your reading.
DG

 

[driphoney]

Yes, but chaptered stories do have an unfair advantage. Those who don't like the story stop reading and voting as the story goes along which ( barring troll attacks or a turn that the readers don't like ) means that the score tends to rise with each new chapter.

A one-shot story has one chance to make the cut, one chance to escape the trolls, one shot to attract new readers, etc.

I tend to agree with you on this, though my own very few posted chapters breaks that rule.

To deviate and reflect back on your old 2008 thread, I completely understand posting chapter-by-chapter. I did it on purpose for the reason you state above: each chapter posted attracts a few more readers who go back to read the older ones.

But!! I am starting to get a pet peeve with this chapter-by-chapter posting. Right now a couple of writers are hogging, and I do mean hogging about 20 (maybe more, I haven't looked this week) of the top 30 or so places, and hogging about 30+ of the top 500 places on one particular Top List cat. I wish to God that the one writer, at least, with the numerous chapters would combine their completed story so as to free up the slots for other writers. And no, not me, I wouldn't make the cut. But as a reader, it's frustrating because they just sit there week-after-week and now month-after-month, and it would be great to find some new stuff to read and I like skimming the top, not having to wade through a gazillion bad apples to get that one gem. Finding stories 4.5 and higher is a great way to do that.

But I'm just having a pet peeve sort of day. Sorry. I'll go back to my corner now.