0 viewers but 1 voter gets to vote 1.0 how is this possible?

pattydraws

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I've been a respectful reader here for well over a year. Not a veteran by any stretch, but a careful learner none the less.

I posted my 1st story here silently back in February and it collected only 5.0 votes and rested there until I stupidly answered a comment & didn't realize I had to vote too and just left the default 3. Pow, the story's vote taly fell in a heartbeat.

I offered up another story that I know was marginal in terms of lterary effort. I saw the flaws in it from the start. still it's gotten another bunch of nice scores. It was supposed to be illustrated, but the submit an illustrated story process is not as clear cut or functinal as folks might have anyone believe. For one you can't submit a .doc file with an image in itwithout getting a file format warning. OK fine, minor stuff.

Last night a story that I have put my life, heart and soul into went up. According to the counter in my profile, no one has viewed the story, and yet one person has registered a vote for it and given it a 1.0 out of a possible 5.0.

1.0? Seriously? ?????????? What's up with that? What did I do wrong?

the rotten 1.0 scoring story in question is here... Tantric 26th

Seriously! What in the heck is wrong with it?
 
I had a brief look and it certainly deserves more than 1/5. You might just have someone pissed off that you gave them a low vote or a bad comment?. Sometimes you do get silly idiots who leave low scores deliberately if a story has a high voting rate however if the story has no votes, its very unusual.

It might be simply to do with the fact that the story involves a couple enjoying themselves together, and this turns whoever voted for it off. a lot of stories on lit. involve unfaithful couples etc so to read a good story involving two people who love each other, *gasp*
 
thanks but???

How does a story that is barely posted, has as yet had 0 viewers, manage to find a voter from that ZERO reader count, who hates the story so much they get the ball rolling with the lowest possible score?

yes, I'm hurt.
 
pattydraws said:
How does a story that is barely posted, has as yet had 0 viewers, manage to find a voter from that ZERO reader count, who hates the story so much they get the ball rolling with the lowest possible score?

yes, I'm hurt.

Votes are tallied in real time, that is: as soon as someone votes, that vote shows up on your "view submissions" page. Views are only updated once or twice a day. Because of the way the programming works, sometimes a new story will have more votes than views the first day or so. The thermometer that goes with the Public Comments has nothing to do with your voting score, just so that you know. The only votes that are included in your score are those that are entered there at the end of the story.

I'm very sorry someone chose you to take their childish aggression out on. Unfortunately, it happens. Laurel does do vote sweeps, however, so that vote of 1 may disappear when she does her next sweep. It pays, on this site, to develop a certain thickness of skin. I think we've all dealt with the trolls at one time or another.

I'll give your story a read. Again, I'm sorry. :rose:
 
A Minor Point of Clarification

The "thermometer" scores are votes, just like the 1-5 scored voted. Unfortunately, they are entered as 0, 25, 50. 75, 100 values instead of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

But they work the same. A 100 is a 5 and vice versa. And they count the same, too.
 
Singularity said:
The "thermometer" scores are votes, just like the 1-5 scored voted. Unfortunately, they are entered as 0, 25, 50. 75, 100 values instead of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

But they work the same. A 100 is a 5 and vice versa. And they count the same, too.

Are you sure about that? If that were true, then a reader could literally vote twice on the same story: once by the opportunity to vote at the end of the story, and then again with a public comment.

I think you're mistaken.
 
cloudy said:
Are you sure about that? If that were true, then a reader could literally vote twice on the same story: once by the opportunity to vote at the end of the story, and then again with a public comment.

I think you're mistaken.

I think you're right, cloudy.

They are separate tallies.

The public comments board hasn't been around that long (was it last March?) while voting has been here for years. (At least 1999, anyway, isn't that when Laurel and Manu opened the site?)

The thermostat will only show up with public comments. If you forget to change it, you'll register the 50% vote score - on the public comments.

But you must also click 1-5 at the end of a story in order to vote on the overall score.
 
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Get tough

pattydraws said:
How does a story that is barely posted, has as yet had 0 viewers, manage to find a voter from that ZERO reader count, who hates the story so much they get the ball rolling with the lowest possible score?

yes, I'm hurt.

I read your story and it was good. When I first came to Lit I was stunned by the venemous comments of some readers and I know they bashed the stories out of their personal prejuidices. Ona free speech site like this there is just no way to control those people-so you've got to accept the good with the bad. I think the best comment I have seen on Literotica and, I don't remember who to credit it to, is that some people react in a very negative manner if you HAVE NOT WRITTEN THE STORY THEY EXPECTED TO SEE. Instead of passing on by or voting on the writer's skill, some people will blast you because they don't like the ending or whatever. (I had a main character pass away at the end of one of my stories and boy did I get mail!!!)

But, those readers have just as much right to express their opinion as we writers do to express ours and without them, the site wouldn't exist, If we post here we open ourselves to comments both good and bad, and votes both good and bad. It's the nature of the beast; get tough. Everyone won't like your stories and some people will not be fair but I think those bashers are in the minority.

Good luck-I loved the location of your story BTW.
 
redcar7 said:
I read your story and it was good. When I first came to Lit I was stunned by the venemous comments of some readers and I know they bashed the stories out of their personal prejuidices. Ona free speech site like this there is just no way to control those people-so you've got to accept the good with the bad. I think the best comment I have seen on Literotica and, I don't remember who to credit it to, is that some people react in a very negative manner if you HAVE NOT WRITTEN THE STORY THEY EXPECTED TO SEE. Instead of passing on by or voting on the writer's skill, some people will blast you because they don't like the ending or whatever. (I had a main character pass away at the end of one of my stories and boy did I get mail!!!)

But, those readers have just as much right to express their opinion as we writers do to express ours and without them, the site wouldn't exist, If we post here we open ourselves to comments both good and bad, and votes both good and bad. It's the nature of the beast; get tough. Everyone won't like your stories and some people will not be fair but I think those bashers are in the minority.

Good luck-I loved the location of your story BTW.

Very good comments.

May I add, patty, that often readers just want a quick stroke story.

They don't want emotion, in-depth thought, or love, so even a two-page story like yours contains too much reading matter for their - ahem - stroke speed.

There are thousands of people reading thousands of stories on Lit. You can't take it personally; rarely do 1 votes or even negative public comments discuss the author's skill.

Your story just wasn't to their taste. OK, that happens. When I come upon a story that doesn't appeal to me, I try to vote on how well-written it is, rather than just the topic. Anything else isn't fair to the author.

But many do not.

Hang in there. You'll soon develop a following, and the number of votes and your scores will increase.

Also - please submit something with illustrations - in that category? Please?

Yum.

:rose:
 
Nope, the "Thermometer" "Votes" are NOT votes

Singularity said:
The "thermometer" scores are votes, just like the 1-5 scored voted. Unfortunately, they are entered as 0, 25, 50. 75, 100 values instead of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

But they work the same. A 100 is a 5 and vice versa. And they count the same, too.
The only votes are the 1-5 at the end of the story.
The Thermometer is to post a visual indication with your PC to show at a glance how you liked the story. It's not a vote! Although many people have mistaken it for one. It's too bad it's set at 50% as a default. If it were 100%, it might be better for all.

Patty, maybe you could go back and leave another PC with a different Thermometer setting, or you could PM the person and ask them to delete it, then give him/her another PC with what you meant to give it.
Can't wait to read your story and get a drawing! ;)
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I read your story after I stumbled across you plaintive cry here on the board. Seldom are stories as bad as some closed-minded assholes make them out to be.

First off, you CAN'T go by votes. It's too subjective a process. Ignore votes, they have little true bearing on the merit of a story.

I read your story and I liked it. As the one public comment said, it's nice to read a story of two people who are truly in love with one another doing what two people who are in love with one another do. I hope you're going to write a follow up, since there's obviously more story to be had.

Personal experience? Something like this sure sounds like it.

If I had any complaints at all, it's that, sometimes, sentence structure was a little awkward, so it was occasionally necessary to re-read a line a few times to pick up what was being said. There were few typos and usage errors, which is very good, but if there were any major problems with the story, I'd have to say they were technical, and technique can be corrected.

"Groin." Not a sexy term. Also, there are several times where more clinical terms are used for sexual organs. Again, not that sexy. It would work for the part where the presentations are being given, but unless you're in the healthcare profession (I noticed that Sheila is a nurse. That would explain the professional terms for genitalia. Wouldn't happen to be your profession, would it?) I'm not sure too many people refer to their privates with terms like: vulva, mons, etc.

The bit with the giving of gifts is rather awkward. I understand that you were trying to hide from the reader what the gift to Eamon was, but unfortunately, it only made me go, "What the hell?" I figured, after the spanking bit earlier, that it had something to do with that, but the way it came off didn't really work. Sorry. Unfortunately, it was only confusing.

The way you handle the whole seminar thing, though, is really nice. Makes me wish I could sign my wife and me up for something like that.

Don't get discouraged. This writing thing is too subjective a deal to expect to please everyone (Hell, sometimes it's impossible to please *anybody*). DON'T give so much importance to statistics. I started posting stories to the web about 4 years ago, and maybe once a year do I check to see what their scores are. You can't go by scores.

Keep writing. Moreso, give us more on this tantra seminar thing. I want to hear how their homework on the oral session went.

Don't give up. There are those of us out here who are behind you

Susurrus
 
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