Contradictory rating on my story.

[carnivalslaughter]

Hello, fellow Literotica readers. I don't know if this is a technical error or if I'm just reading the data wrong, but the rating on my stories page, and the rating on my control panel contradict one another. I would really like to know how well my story was received, so you can understand why this confusion it's frustrating. If anyone can help me shed some light on this, I would be eternally grateful.

 

[RejectReality]

Every listing of statistics on Lit updates on a schedule varying from a few minutes to 24 hours. The exception is your private author list, where it's mostly real time. ( Views update about every 15 minutes and comments are subject to the comment queue, but everything else is real time )

Any other place you look, the statistics are at least a little out of date.

 

[JuanSeiszFitzHall]

Here's a clue, for future reference. Some story data can change in either direction, but views never go down. The 3.83 rating is paired with 1k views. The 4.50 rating is paired with 1.8k views. As RR noted, data are updated at different rates, but it's very likely that the 4.5 rating is the more recent one. Also, for these numbers to work, there may have been a sweep, because with ten votes in the later rating, 3.83 would correspond to a smaller number of votes, which would only happen on six votes. You not only had high votes later, but apparently had a low one removed.

 

[NotWise]

RR is right that the stats shown in different places update at different times.
Juan is right that the 4.5 is more recent than the 3.88.

It's really hard to get from a score of 3.88 to a score of 4.5. The most likely way I can explain it is that someone changed their vote from 1* to 5*.

For instance, the 3.88 score could come from:
one 1* vote, two 3* votes, one 4* vote, and four 5*votes.
or
one 1* vote, one 2* vote, one 3* vote, and five 5* votes.

These both give you a 1* vote and 8 total votes for 31 total stars (3.875 average, rounds up to 3.88).

Now, someone changes their 1* vote to a 5* vote, and you have 8 votes with 35 total stars.

Next, you get two more 5* votes, giving you 10 votes totaling 45 stars for a rating of 4.5.

You would end up with either:

two 3* votes, one 4* vote and seven 5* votes
or
one 2* vote, one 3* vote, and eight 5* votes.

 

[shellytuhenmay]

RR is right that the stats shown in different places update at different times.
Juan is right that the 4.5 is more recent than the 3.88.

It's really hard to get from a score of 3.88 to a score of 4.5. The most likely way I can explain it is that someone changed their vote from 1* to 5*.

For instance, the 3.88 score could come from:
one 1* vote, two 3* votes, one 4* vote, and four 5*votes.
or
one 1* vote, one 2* vote, one 3* vote, and five 5* votes.

These both give you a 1* vote and 8 total votes for 31 total stars (3.875 average, rounds up to 3.88).

Now, someone changes their 1* vote to a 5* vote, and you have 8 votes with 35 total stars.

Next, you get two more 5* votes, giving you 10 votes totaling 45 stars for a rating of 4.5.

You would end up with either:

two 3* votes, one 4* vote and seven 5* votes
or
one 2* vote, one 3* vote, and eight 5* votes.

It is a good thing that it doesn't matter.