Disappearing votes

[only_more_so]

A few days ago a new story of mine had 11 votes. Two days ago, I was down to 10 votes, and now it has only 8. Anyone experience this before?

 

[Selena_Kitt]

A few days ago a new story of mine had 11 votes. Two days ago, I was down to 10 votes, and now it has only 8. Anyone experience this before?

when there's a contest going on (Halloween currently) the moderator of the site does a "sweep" of votes... some "1's" and duplicate "5's"... (or any duplicates).

 

[oggbashan]

We all experience it and puzzle about the rhyme and reason for the changes.

Sometimes fewer votes = higher rating. Sometimes it doesn't.

Duplicate votes will be removed as will unfair votes, but the definition of unfair is arguable.

Og

 

[VoteForMe]

A few days ago a new story of mine had 11 votes. Two days ago, I was down to 10 votes, and now it has only 8. Anyone experience this before?

Al Gore? But now with Diebold in charge he'll never even notice.

 

[S-Des]

when there's a contest going on (Halloween currently) the moderator of the site does a "sweep" of votes... some "1's" and duplicate "5's"... (or any duplicates).

Not to be snotty (I'm trying so hard to live and let live), but it also happens when they fuck up. Two weeks ago, my romance story lost 180 votes (after surviving a dozen troll sweeps). No one is going to tell me that it almost 1/2 the votes were duplicates or any other mistake. It was a screw up by Lit, and after 2 PMs with no response, I've come to realize that my story will probably never get back to where it was (how do you compensate for that many lost votes on a 6 month old story?). Like I said, I'm trying to be philosophical.

 

[Selena_Kitt]

Not to be snotty (I'm trying so hard to live and let live), but it also happens when they fuck up. Two weeks ago, my romance story lost 180 votes (after surviving a dozen troll sweeps). No one is going to tell me that it almost 1/2 the votes were duplicates or any other mistake. It was a screw up by Lit, and after 2 PMs with no response, I've come to realize that my story will probably never get back to where it was (how do you compensate for that many lost votes on a 6 month old story?). Like I said, I'm trying to be philosophical.

yeah, I've heard of it happening to others... I have no idea how the program works, but I imagine some votes get swept that shouldn't... it sucks

Now, HOW 180 votes could disappear...?! It's bizarre... I know... *shrug*

 

[mismused]

delete

 

[Selena_Kitt]

Just to make sure everyone knows, uh, yeah, half of the votes can be duplicates.

I've fought the voting war in the past, as many can attest to, and was made aware of something I didn't know of in the process:

One guy PMed me and apologized. Why? He votes compulsively for stories that he really likes. Like I mean, the same story over and over again. I think we've all seen him post, but I've never revealed who he is. He does what he does, and it's not life or death (*Grrrr! though it feels like it sometimes*).

Do I believe him? Sure do. One other author here is one really fine writer, and she was one of the biggest -- uh -- losers because of him. I wasn't as bad, but bad enough.

Just sayin so you know -- everyone -- though I've said it before.

Yeah, but they can't ALL be the OCD guy, can they???

I've heard this story over and over... hundreds of votes disappearing off of a story... they're ALL this guy??? Seems unlikely?

 

[mismused]

delete

 

[S-Des]

Yeah, but they can't ALL be the OCD guy, can they???

I've heard this story over and over... hundreds of votes disappearing off of a story... they're ALL this guy??? Seems unlikely?

Not to mention it had been through months of troll sweeps with no major correction. My stories all garner 250-350 votes, so it wasn't unusually high. I put it on another site and it's #11 on their all time list (all categories combined) with 580 votes.

 

[Selena_Kitt]

Who, or what is OCD?

ocd=obsessive compulsive disorder...

 

[mismused]

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[VoteForMe]

ocd=obsessive compulsive disorder...

Rent "Monk" on DVD -- you'll LYFAO

 

[Roxanne Appleby]

Not to be snotty (I'm trying so hard to live and let live), but it also happens when they fuck up. Two weeks ago, my romance story lost 180 votes (after surviving a dozen troll sweeps). No one is going to tell me that it almost 1/2 the votes were duplicates or any other mistake. It was a screw up by Lit, and after 2 PMs with no response, I've come to realize that my story will probably never get back to where it was (how do you compensate for that many lost votes on a 6 month old story?). Like I said, I'm trying to be philosophical.

The same happened to my last two contest stories - I forget the exact numbers but well over 1/3 of the votes - 60, 70 or so.

 

[Roxanne Appleby]

I'm not fully awake yet, but doubt I'd know anyway -- who the OCD guy is, I mean. Who, or what is OCD?

Hundreds of votes? Uh-huh. Happening, thus, I guess, the profuse apology. Another good reason to end the silly voting system they have, but I'm through fighting that war. Better than me have waged it and lost..

As I said in this post, 'I don't have to tell you all the ways in which Lit scores are "coarse" at the very best and highly skewed at the very worst. They give the appearance of precision with those two digits to the right of the decimal point, but in reality they should probably be rounded to the nearest whole number. They are very useful because they allow readers to separate the wheat from the chaff, but in reality are unsuited for making fine distinctions, as in contests.'

What would lit look like without voting? It's easy to see. Go here, and tell me, which of all these stories is worth your time to open and start reading? Answer: Who knows?

 

[only_more_so]

Thanks everyone. I was kind of annoyed because I went from having a "Hot" story to having a story that doesn't even qualify. Not that I am in this for the fame and glory, but I figure the more people who read the story, the more accurate my rating and the more feedback.

Maybe they should come up with a warm story marker. For stories that are over 4, or over 4.5 but have fewer than 10 votes so far.

 

[Roxanne Appleby]

I believe that we are all in this primarilly for one reason - vanity.

It's not money. It's not the pure joy of creating, although most feel that, but if that were sufficient there would be no need to post the stories, would there? We are all gluttons for reads, votes, comments and feedack because we want the world to know how good we are at this. Vanity.

So be it. I say we celebrate it. Damn I'm good - look at how good I am! Tell me how good I am (just once, please. Dammit.) Am I good, or what!

Long live vanity!

 

[drksideofthemoon]

Not to be snotty (I'm trying so hard to live and let live), but it also happens when they fuck up. Two weeks ago, my romance story lost 180 votes (after surviving a dozen troll sweeps). No one is going to tell me that it almost 1/2 the votes were duplicates or any other mistake. It was a screw up by Lit, and after 2 PMs with no response, I've come to realize that my story will probably never get back to where it was (how do you compensate for that many lost votes on a 6 month old story?). Like I said, I'm trying to be philosophical.

I know what you mean, various chapters of my Montana Summer series have lost up to 400 votes on one chapter...

And I, as well, sent PM's out that were never graced with a reply...

 

[S-Des]

I know what you mean, various chapters of my Montana Summer series have lost up to 400 votes on one chapter...

And I, as well, sent PM's out that were never graced with a reply...

You can write a story that wins over the harshest critics, but when the site itself sabotages your story, it's a pretty helpless feeling.

 

[drksideofthemoon]

I believe that we are all in this primarilly for one reason - vanity.

It's not money. It's not the pure joy of creating, although most feel that, but if that were sufficient there would be no need to post the stories, would there? We are all gluttons for reads, votes, comments and feedack because we want the world to know how good we are at this. Vanity.

So be it. I say we celebrate it. Damn I'm good - look at how good I am! Tell me how good I am (just once, please. Dammit.) Am I good, or what!

Long live vanity!

I disagree, I don't care about the number of votes, scores etc...some of the stories I am proudest of have the fewest votes...

I understand what S-Des is saying. There seems to be no rhyme or reason to the way Lit does their sweeps and at times the way they seem to arbitrarily take votes away from certain stories leaves a person to wonder. And compound that with the silence that is heard from the powers running the site when the writer simply asks why. It smacks of unfairness at times, and like I said, the numbers don't matter, it's the principle.