another voting question

[astuffedshirt_perv]

If I open an 4 page story and then skip to page 4 to vote, will it count?

I ask because m browser offers a wonderful option called "reader" that opens all the pages into a single, clean document. However, I wonder if the 5s I give after reading all that actually count.

 

[sr71plt]

I don't think anyone beyond the system administrator knows the answer to that, and I don't think he's telling.

 

[CeasarBoobage]

And what browser is this? I know Opera has a 'reader' app that cleans everything up, but I've yet to see one that will span multiple links, just "knowing" which link to follow to give you all 4 pages.

One way to tell would be to open that story with another browser (logged in), go through all the pages and see if it remembers your score.

 

[Darkniciad]

This isn't a sure thing, but it's my experience.

One of my readers way back when told me that he copy/pasted everything off Lit to read at his leisure offline, then came back to vote later. He always sent an email immediately after voting.

I wasn't getting many votes at the time, so it was easy enough to see his vote appear because he emailed me immediately, and then within 24 hours, the vote would disappear.

As an experiment, I asked him to linger on each page for a minute or so before finally voting on my next chapter.

As I suspected, that vote seemed to stick, as did subsequent votes where he did the same thing. When he forgot to do it once, the vote vanished as they always had previously.

As I said, it isn't a sure thing, but it certainly appears to me as if you must view each page of the story for at least a brief period of time before the vote will survive sweeps.

 

[sr71plt]

StuffedShirt experimented with this on one of my stories and indeed vote took (and hasn't been swept as far as I can tell), but there's every possibility it will be swept at some point and I may not be able to determine that it's the vote that was swept.

 

[Darkniciad]

Better safe than sorry, I say. I regularly post on my website and in announcement emails to make sure to linger on the pages if you read offline, if you want your vote to stick when you come back to cast it.

 

[astuffedshirt_perv]

And what browser is this? I know Opera has a 'reader' app that cleans everything up, but I've yet to see one that will span multiple links, just "knowing" which link to follow to give you all 4 pages.

One way to tell would be to open that story with another browser (logged in), go through all the pages and see if it remembers your score.

On Safari (Apple) also on Mercury, an iPad app. It really is very, very nice.