Can you get a histogram showing the distribution of votes for a story.

[DaddyAnal1966]

A real newbie question I realise.

I’m not looking for who voted what, but rather just the number of 5s and of 1s.

 

[SimonDoom]

No, you cannot. The Site does not provide this information.

If you are super-anal, as I have sometimes been, you can track the voting history of your story for a while immediately after it is published and more or less figure out on a vote-by-vote basis what each score is. Numbers are updated every ten minutes on your Works story list. But after a while, and almost immediately if your story gets many views and votes, it's hopeless. You're just guessing.

The most common vote is a 5, because many voters don't like to vote unless they can give a 5. Authors in particular seem to be this way.

If your story has a score of 4.5, then you know for certain that over half the total votes must be 5s. But you don't know much more than that. You don't know what stew of 4s, 3s 2s, and 1s comprise the remainder of the votes.

 

[DaddyAnal1966]

If you are super-anal, as I have sometimes been, you can track the voting history of your story for a while immediately after it is published and more or less figure out on a vote-by-vote basis what each score is. Numbers are updated every ten minutes on your Works story list. But after a while, and almost immediately if your story gets many views and votes, it's hopeless. You're just guessing.

Thanks for the reply. I have done just that. But, as you say, it becomes impossible after a while. Seems like an easy feature to offer.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Thanks for the reply. I have done just that. But, as you say, it becomes impossible after a while. Seems like an easy feature to offer.

There are long and complex reasons as to why it's not, that go back to contests, vote manipulation and scum baggery.

Just so you can know now, to avoid a question later, the site runs regular "sweeps" through the voting data to remove certain scores (high votes and low votes) which it deems irregular. It does so regularly, more frequently during contests.

Do NOT ask or publicly speculate how it works; suffice to say it does, it's a feature of the site, it's there for a reason, and it's something every writer (some far more than others) encounters. It's part of the Lit furniture.

 

[DaddyAnal1966]

There are long and complex reasons as to why it's not, that go back to contests, vote manipulation and scum baggery.

Just so you can know now, to avoid a question later, the site runs regular "sweeps" through the voting data to remove certain scores (high votes and low votes) which it deems irregular. It does so regularly, more frequently during contests.

Do NOT ask or publicly speculate how it works; suffice to say it does, it's a feature of the site, it's there for a reason, and it's something every writer (some far more than others) encounters. It's part of the Lit furniture.

Thanks for telling me

 

[lovecraft68]

Thanks for telling me

Feel free to speculate, it gets discussed all the time. Some people here like to think they run the forum. They don't