The Official Authors' Hangout Summer Lovin' Support Thread 2018

[oggbashan]

My entry is posted, less than a day after submission. Thank you, Laurel.

https://www.literotica.com/s/tranny-trouble

It's probably for selected puffins only.

 

[oggbashan]

Typical voting pattern:

7 votes - rating 5.00
8 votes - rating 4.88
10 votes - rating 4.40
11 votes - rating 4.27

 

[NotWise]

Typical voting pattern:

7 votes - rating 5.00
8 votes - rating 4.88
10 votes - rating 4.40
11 votes - rating 4.27

The voting pattern on my stories is more likely to be the exact opposite.

 

[Kethandra]

Contest goal, mentioned earlier in this thread, is now met:

Though reads/vote totals have been lower than usual for me this contest, while I was away from ‘the internets’ for the weekend my “followers/ favorites” rolled up to 1000.
Plus I got a nice comment (the first one in over a year) on my very first story submitted to litE.

 

[ChloeTzang]

Typical voting pattern:

7 votes - rating 5.00
8 votes - rating 4.88
10 votes - rating 4.40
11 votes - rating 4.27

Mine follow that trend these days except they bottom around 4.5 until the contest sweeps get run and then, miraculously, they climb.

 

[TxRad]

My scores have been pretty much locked in place since the end of the first week.

 

[KeithD]

My scores have been pretty much locked in place since the end of the first week.

Mine are on an apparently concerted move down over the past three days (one entry having been static around 4.70 since the start of the contest suddenly having been moved down to a 4.55 at the 100-vote mark). I rather thought that the usual malicious jockeying downvoting phase had begun. The phase doesn't bother me too much as these tend to be votes caught in the final sweep.

 

[NotWise]

Mine are on an apparently concerted move down over the past three days. I rather thought that the usual malicious jockeying downvoting phase had begun. The phase doesn't bother me too much as these tend to be votes caught in the final sweep.

My contest score went down over the long weekend, and I noticed that the score on quite a few other contest stories went down as well. I don't know how malicious it was, but it did seem like the holiday voters had lower opinions.

Until this morning, anyway. Someone up-voted much of my small catalogue. I should thank them, but no new favorites were made and no comments were given, so I have no idea who did it.

 

[KeithD]

My contest score went down over the long weekend, and I noticed that the score on quite a few other contest stories went down as well. I don't know how malicious it was, but it did seem like the holiday voters had lower opinions.

Until this morning, anyway. Someone up-voted much of my small catalogue. I should thank them, but no new favorites were made and no comments were given, so I have no idea who did it.

I've entered nearly every contest for more than a decade and attribute periods of methodical, asymmetrical, short-term down voting near the end of the contest as maneuvering by contestants themselves. No one else would care so much. I just like to end up after the sweeps with more votes and a higher score than I average with noncontest submissions--and the contests usually deliver that for me.

 

[Kethandra]

I've entered nearly every contest for more than a decade and attribute periods of methodical, asymmetrical, short-term down voting near the end of the contest as maneuvering by contestants themselves. No one else would care so much. I just like to end up after the sweeps with more votes and a higher score than I average with noncontest submissions--and the contests usually deliver that for me.

My observations agrees with this, but this contest seems like a generally lower total vote and view rate.

 

[ilamont]

I've entered nearly every contest for more than a decade and attribute periods of methodical, asymmetrical, short-term down voting near the end of the contest as maneuvering by contestants themselves. No one else would care so much. I just like to end up after the sweeps with more votes and a higher score than I average with noncontest submissions--and the contests usually deliver that for me.

That is very interesting... Mine fell .03 over the weekend, after a slow steady climb since posting the story. It had never occurred to me that other authors might try to 'rig the system' as a certain someone says these days... Sad...!

 

[KeithD]

My observations agrees with this, but this contest seems like a generally lower total vote and view rate.

I'm getting more votes than I usually get, without getting a noticeable increase in views.

 

[KeithD]

That is very interesting... Mine fell .03 over the weekend, after a slow steady climb since posting the story. It had never occurred to me that other authors might try to 'rig the system' as a certain someone says these days... Sad...!

The final sweeps will almost certainly bring the score up appreciably. The fact that there are sweeps at all, though, pretty much evidences the malicious voting, which I have seen set into a pattern over the years.

 

[KindofHere]

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[KeithD]

There's a fairly new author in there right now who, the last time I was in a contest with, every time my story overtook their first place story, I got hit with a 1 vote. And it wasn't just me who couldn't stay next to their score, several others, including the overall winner, continued to get smacked around when they got close to them.

Don't expect your real score to show up until after the final sweeps of malicious votes.

Good luck.

That's pretty much what happened in a contest this year that my coauthor and I took first place in. Whenever we went up to first place in the running, zap down to third or fourth with a couple of double whammies added on the last day of voting. Those in third through fifth place also were being zapped. But second place remained rock solid. It also was a new account author. What it looked like when the dust settled is the "someone" apparently underestimated what the final sweeps would do. After the contest, our story got zapped down to where it wouldn't even have been in competition to place anymore. It still has a great score for its category, though.

 

[KindofHere]

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[KeithD]

Yeah, that's the one I was talking about.

Managing to remain just as rock solid somewhere around the top in this contest, I see. I haven't gone through to see all of them that have been near the top, but I did check the rating of that one occasionally and a few others near there (one of mine was there at one time; certainly isn't now) and there's a stark difference in the relative rating arc, with one story standing out.

Again, though, there are good reasons to enter the contests even if they are as "tight" as a flour sieve here.

 

[KindofHere]

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[TANSTAAFL58]

In the Geek Pride contest the sweep dropped my story from ~4.4 to 3.8-ish. it has climbed back up to 4.27 the last time I checked. One of my stories could get wiped out by a sweep this time. (It has had great comments , public and private but it's still under 3.9).

Be careful what you wish for.

 

[KeithD]

In the Geek Pride contest the sweep dropped my story from ~4.4 to 3.8-ish. it has climbed back up to 4.27 the last time I checked. One of my stories could get wiped out by a sweep this time. (It has had great comments , public and private but it's still under 3.9).

Be careful what you wish for.

That's a different sort of problem and reason to look into yourself or to start tamping down your fan club. The motivation for piling system-claimed illegitimate high scores on a specific story is a little more pointed than zapping the competition.

 

[TANSTAAFL58]

That's a different sort of problem and reason to look into yourself or to start tamping down your fan club. The motivation for piling system-claimed illegitimate high scores on a specific story is a little more pointed than zapping the competition.

I don't think I have a fan club. That story had about 50 votes. I lost 14 or so. It's back up to 45 votes. We don't all get a huge volume of traffic. That takes time. I figure I'm doing well if I get 75-100 votes.

 

[NotWise]

I don't think I have a fan club. That story had about 50 votes. I lost 14 or so. It's back up to 45 votes. We don't all get a huge volume of traffic. That takes time. I figure I'm doing well if I get 75-100 votes.

Geek Pride was a non-competitive event. There may have been some very friendly voting going on among the entrants.

 

[RejectReality]

Never underestimate your fans willingness to "help you out" with multiple votes. You may not believe you have a fanbase, but you probably do.

It only takes one with some time on their hands and minimal knowledge to cause your score to plummet every time the Hoover goes by and removes their multiple votes.

When informed that you don't want that kind of "help", most of them seem to stop, and the ratings plunges end. That's why nearly everything I release informs the readership I don't want people multi-voting or down-voting others in the end note. It's generally an excess of enthusiasm, rather than true maleficence, and they stop when you ask them to.

 

[cw5523729]

Is there any way to see the actual vote counts? I'm pretty sure I got whacked with 6 "1s" but only because I've done the actual math to figure it out which is a bit tedious now that I'm in the 140ish vote range

 

[ElectricBlue]

Is there any way to see the actual vote counts? I'm pretty sure I got whacked with 6 "1s" but only because I've done the actual math to figure it out which is a bit tedious now that I'm in the 140ish vote range

No. You have to track the changes yourself - the site won't package up the data other than present the latest score, time now.