jsmiam
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For a change, here's a story about one-bombs from a story with over 100 votes. I'm not asking a question, and I'm not puzzled by it, it's just interesting. (Usually, questions about one-bombs are for new stories with just a few votes.)
For a fleeting fifteen minutes of fame, my last story was scoring quite well, well enough to possibly be a Monthly Contest contender at least for its category, if not too likely overall. This is the same story I mildly complained about three weeks ago, where it had four scores, but wasn't a Gettysburg address. The "My works" page had one score, from what I gather, that's the closest to the true score; The story itself shows a different score; The "Popular" list when you go to a category had another score, and finally, within the Top Lists page, at times the last 12 months and last 30 day scores were different.
The story remained below the radar before reaching 100 votes, because it at first was only in the last 30 days and last 12 month categories, where it gets less attention, and also is often nowhere near the top because other stories either temporarily or permanently pop up on top or near the top while having smaller numbers of votes.
Then just a day or two ago, I cracked 100 votes, and woohoo, I was number one, at 4.9, for almost an hour or so! Then 4.87. Then 4.83. Then 4.79 within 5 votes. Then, there was a sweep, which I presume was done in the background for the monthly contest, whose results are often posted toward the end of a month, for the prior month. So back to 4.9. Then 4.83 again. And 4.8 and now 4.79. By my calculations, I've gotten between 4 and 6 one bombs over the course of approximately 13 votes (the estimates are because I don't necessarily check often enough on a vote by vote basis... Sometimes I do/am checking often, sometims not.)
At approximately 100 votes, the math involved says a single one-bomb moves the score by 0.03, again, roughly, so just one person on their own can do this when the vote count is at 100, that doesn't take an army of co-conspirators. I can say though, whoever it is doesn't about one-bombing as long as the score is approximately 4.8 to 4.83 (or flying below the radar, such as when it hovered near 4.9 for about a week, but buried out of visibility because it didn't hit the toplist until reaching 100 votes.), since bombing stopped, and hadn't been occurring for the past several weeks, when the score wasn't changing on the top lists. Get too high though, someone out there sends the one-bombs fast!
(I do know the score will inch downward over time, post contest. It's not entirely one-bomb related either, it's that the sweeps perhaps do temporarily put a score higher than it's natural stasis point, by getting rid of obvious fake scores.) The score I predict will settle at about where it was during the contest, but before sweeps. That seems to be a predictor of the final settling point when things calm down.
But it's been interesting watching it first-hand, since I have my scores to watch. As I said up front, this isn't a question, not even really a complaint. Just a case where I got to watch first hand the things that happen near the top of a top list.
For a fleeting fifteen minutes of fame, my last story was scoring quite well, well enough to possibly be a Monthly Contest contender at least for its category, if not too likely overall. This is the same story I mildly complained about three weeks ago, where it had four scores, but wasn't a Gettysburg address. The "My works" page had one score, from what I gather, that's the closest to the true score; The story itself shows a different score; The "Popular" list when you go to a category had another score, and finally, within the Top Lists page, at times the last 12 months and last 30 day scores were different.
The story remained below the radar before reaching 100 votes, because it at first was only in the last 30 days and last 12 month categories, where it gets less attention, and also is often nowhere near the top because other stories either temporarily or permanently pop up on top or near the top while having smaller numbers of votes.
Then just a day or two ago, I cracked 100 votes, and woohoo, I was number one, at 4.9, for almost an hour or so! Then 4.87. Then 4.83. Then 4.79 within 5 votes. Then, there was a sweep, which I presume was done in the background for the monthly contest, whose results are often posted toward the end of a month, for the prior month. So back to 4.9. Then 4.83 again. And 4.8 and now 4.79. By my calculations, I've gotten between 4 and 6 one bombs over the course of approximately 13 votes (the estimates are because I don't necessarily check often enough on a vote by vote basis... Sometimes I do/am checking often, sometims not.)
At approximately 100 votes, the math involved says a single one-bomb moves the score by 0.03, again, roughly, so just one person on their own can do this when the vote count is at 100, that doesn't take an army of co-conspirators. I can say though, whoever it is doesn't about one-bombing as long as the score is approximately 4.8 to 4.83 (or flying below the radar, such as when it hovered near 4.9 for about a week, but buried out of visibility because it didn't hit the toplist until reaching 100 votes.), since bombing stopped, and hadn't been occurring for the past several weeks, when the score wasn't changing on the top lists. Get too high though, someone out there sends the one-bombs fast!
(I do know the score will inch downward over time, post contest. It's not entirely one-bomb related either, it's that the sweeps perhaps do temporarily put a score higher than it's natural stasis point, by getting rid of obvious fake scores.) The score I predict will settle at about where it was during the contest, but before sweeps. That seems to be a predictor of the final settling point when things calm down.
But it's been interesting watching it first-hand, since I have my scores to watch. As I said up front, this isn't a question, not even really a complaint. Just a case where I got to watch first hand the things that happen near the top of a top list.
. I don't manage enough time to write stories I personally enjoy writing to bother with doing this. You're much more energetic than me 
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