voting on your own work

[MillieDynamite]

First, I've never voted on my writing, not here, not anywhere. Especially not if it is in a contest.

With that said, it seems here we have the option to do so.

Does anyone know, if you vote on your own story, does it count? If you vote on your own story, why do you do so? One vote in the larger scheme of things carries little weight. If you don't vote for your own work, why do so?

I do not vote for my own work. I'll admit this, just this one time, I'm biased toward my own work. At first, no matter how good or bad it is, I think its the best story since Shakespeare! And of course, it isn't! Often it is, fair to middlin, which is mediocre at best. Some of my stories, I admit, I think are pretty good. But, I'm not without the rose colored glasses when I read my own work.

Occasionally, I read something after a long period of time and my reaction is either, WOW I wrote that, or Holy shit on a cracker, I'm the one to blame for that one.

 

[jehoram]

I don't know if you can vote on your own story or not. I don't vote on my stories, since it doesn't really tell me anything about how others react to the story, which is the only value of the voting system for me.

 

[MillieDynamite]

I don't know if you can vote on your own story or not. I don't vote on my stories, since it doesn't really tell me anything about how others react to the story, which is the only value of the voting system for me.

Unlike other sites, it has the appearance you can. I'd never vote on my own to find out if it counted or not.

 

[NotWise]

Unlike other sites, it has the appearance you can. I'd never vote on my own to find out if it counted or not.

I voted on one of my old stories a few months ago to confirm that it's possible to change your vote. You can vote on your own story, and you can change your vote.

There isn't much to gain from voting on your own story.

 

[LAHomedog]

I always vote on my own story. Why not? It is your right under the rules.

If I was running for office I'd go into the voting booth and vote for myself. If I was up for an award where there was voting allowed and I was allowed to vote, I'd vote for myself.

If I post a story it is because I believe in it. So I vote for it.

 

[MillieDynamite]

I always vote on my own story. Why not? It is your right under the rules.

If I was running for office I'd go into the voting booth and vote for myself. If I was up for an award where there was voting allowed and I was allowed to vote, I'd vote for myself.

If I post a story it is because I believe in it. So I vote for it.

You and my dad have a lot in common! :

 

[rescatooor]

My partner always votes on my stories and sometimes I vote on his behalf. They probably get removed via sweeps anyway because he is only on the site for that small second. I appreciate it though, and that's what counts.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Unlike other sites, it has the appearance you can. I'd never vote on my own to find out if it counted or not.

Yes it does count, one vote.

You'd stick a flyer up saying "I have a new story," so why is a vote any different? The score is a promotion tool, and in the early days of a story, every vote counts.

 

[KeithD]

I vote. I have habitual downvoters just because I am here. I'm fine with taking the edge off of that. And I believe in my stories.

 

[SamScribble]

Hey, politicians always vote for themselves. If you want to vote for your own story, Millie, go for it! I won't tell.

 

[rescatooor]

I'm thinking that votes for one's own story won't count anyway in a contest scenario. So much gets swept at the end. Even if it came down to that one vote, I like to imagine that shit's fair.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I'm thinking that votes for one's own story won't count anyway in a contest scenario. So much gets swept at the end. Even if it came down to that one vote, I like to imagine that shit's fair.

If a vote is legitimately placed, it holds its place. If you jump to the end and vote without reading, it will get swept. That's all I'm going to say about it - but it's based on experiment on my own story file, when I got curious about votes and sweeps when I first joined Lit.

 

[rescatooor]

If a vote is legitimately placed, it holds its place. If you jump to the end and vote without reading, it will get swept. That's all I'm going to say about it - but it's based on experiment on my own story file, when I got curious about votes and sweeps when I first joined Lit.

Damn. That means that anyone who has got the chance to read my stories early, and just goes on the page to vote on it, will have their vote removed.

Maybe i should start voting on my own stories to fix this injustice.

 

[KeithD]

Laurel posted some time ago that a single vote for someone's own story would hold. I'm not sure I believe that happens, but I took her statement as sanction to vote (once) for your own stories here.

 

[Bramblethorn]

Authors should feel free to vote, once, on their own story.

If only the cheats vote on their own stories, then the cheats are advantaged. If everybody's comfortable voting on their own stories, nobody is unduly advantaged. Which of those seems better?

 

[NotWise]

Laurel posted some time ago that a single vote for someone's own story would hold. I'm not sure I believe that happens, but I took her statement as sanction to vote (once) for your own stories here.

Now, if you vote more than once while logged in, the most recent vote changes your previous vote. Others have said that. Rustyoznails tested it. I tested it. If you vote anonymously then you might be able to vote more than once, but then the extra votes will probably be stripped.

 

[lovecraft68]

I've never done it, I don't feel I need to try to off set a one bomb

I think its in a How To somewhere here-or maybe I read it in a post a long time ago-that it takes 10 votes to get the Red H, so voting for yourself right away can help get it to that and thereby get more attention to your story with the H.

 

[lovecraft68]

Now, if you vote more than once while logged in, the most recent vote changes your previous vote. Others have said that. Rustyoznails tested it. I tested it. If you vote anonymously then you might be able to vote more than once, but then the extra votes will probably be stripped.

I imagine if you voted for yourself under your name, then did anon, the second vote will get booted because same ISP address.

I wonder if that's the case if an author's husband or wife votes for their story in addition to the author, even with different lit ID's would the ISP being the same get one tossed?

 

[KeithD]

Now, if you vote more than once while logged in, the most recent vote changes your previous vote. Others have said that. Rustyoznails tested it. I tested it. If you vote anonymously then you might be able to vote more than once, but then the extra votes will probably be stripped.

Probably stripped, yes. Years ago there were discussions about how two people in the same household, using the same ISP, couldn't both have their votes hold, and the Web site never responded that they could.

 

[MelissaBaby]

Yes, i vote on my own stories, If I didn't think they were good enough to get a 5, I wouldn't publish them.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Reconsidering my position!

 

[ElectricBlue]

Now, if you vote more than once while logged in, the most recent vote changes your previous vote. Others have said that. Rustyoznails tested it. I tested it. If you vote anonymously then you might be able to vote more than once, but then the extra votes will probably be stripped.

Empirical testing: Yes, yes, no (provided they're legit in the first place).

As an aside, other than a couple of "not logged into account" test votes back in 2015 when I first signed up to Lit and was sussing out how all this worked, I only ever vote once. Often not at all, if the out-the-gate numbers are already looking healthy when I first see a story has gone live.

Sometimes though, the tenth vote = Red H, and while we all know they shouldn't matter, they do. So it's a flyer up on every lamp post.

Maybe attitudes on this come down to your notion of voting - here in Oz, voting is compulsory, so we do, while in the US you can vote, but many folk exercise their right not to, or don't bother, or have some moral position on the whole thing. The outcome's much the same, though - it's the total count that matters in the long run.

 

[Bramblethorn]

Sometimes though, the tenth vote = Red H, and while we all know they shouldn't matter, they do. So it's a flyer up on every lamp post.

It always seems odd to me that a story with nine 5s doesn't get a red H, but adding a one-star vote will give it that H.

 

[LAHomedog]

If a vote is legitimately placed, it holds its place. If you jump to the end and vote without reading, it will get swept. That's all I'm going to say about it - but it's based on experiment on my own story file, when I got curious about votes and sweeps when I first joined Lit.

Well, whenever one of my stories posts, I always go to my page, clit on it, and then carefully proof it online. So, I actually read it. Then I vote for it. I've mentioned that I believe in voting for yourself above, and the online proof reading helps too. I have caught more than one error that's led to my doing a rewrite and a submitted edit.

 

[NotWise]

Well, whenever one of my stories posts, I always go to my page, clit on it . . .

Just how do you do that?