FINALLY! The recognition I deserve ; )

[Chicklet]

Okay, so, I get home from work and check to see if my Valentine story is up. IT IS! Hurah. I'm excited and I want to see the score, so I scroll down to check it out...on the way, I notice that all my other scores seem to have skyrocketed during the day. All my 4.4's have gone to 4.6...

STRANGE

I have to say, it gives me a bit of a rush. But I don't believe it. For all of you out there that say no one complains when fraudulant votes are 4's and 5's, here's evidence that someone is. I've already emailed Laurel and told her about the strange new scores.

Chicklet

ps - maybe it's possible that i'm an excellent writer and that everyone is just now noticing = )

 

[SexyChele]

Well, congratulations, Chicklet, on your Valentine's story being up! I'll be certain to check it out. (And vote apporpriately! )

I just looked at all of my stories, and I'm still scratching my head. Almost all the scores have gone down, some significantly, while one story (the last one) which has turned out to polorize readers, it moving ahead.

I'm thankful to Laurel if indeed there were fraudulent votes discovered. (I didn't PM her, as I didn't think I had a problem.) But it is a little weird to see stories that have been up for a year suddenly having votes changed.

Not complaining or anything, just....weird.

Maybe this is what we need to keep folks honest? If so, it's a good thing!

 

[SlickTony]

But it is a little weird to see stories that have been up for a year suddenly having votes changed.

I've never understood why people do this. Only once have I low-voted a story out of anything except literary convictions, and that was to protest the fact that they'd plagiarized someone else's story, word for word, changing only the name.

 

[MathGirl]

$%&^%* votes

I guess I'm naive. Is there some way to how many 4,5,etc. votes a story got? All I've ever seen are the cumulative averages.

 

[KillerMuffin]

Re: I said I would never come back here but

I can't get a story through submision. But I can't get Heaven on earth through

Y'know cut out all the martyr drivel and you find something interesting.

Why isn't it getting through?

 

[NoJo]

A comma or two would probably help.

 

[MathGirl]

Re: I said I would never come back here but

I already have a chapter 2 ready for submission for A good Christian rape. But I can't get Heaven on earth through so Now I just wait. I can't deciede if I will resubmit again or just stop writting. Everything is going wrong in here. I was so good at not coming into your precious boards. Now all this...... not fair.
Demon

PLEASE, please, let his story through! I haven't read a good Christian rape piece in months!

 

[Chicklet]

Re: I said I would never come back here but

God I thought if I stopped coming in here I would be left alone.

you seriously think that we're going out of our way to make your life miserable? geeze...you should take some of my paxil.

(he took a perfectly good thread all about me and twisted it into something evil)

 

[margo_x_x]

I think there’s some kind of serious computer problem here at Literotica. A story I just posted started generating feedback, and so far five of the eight feedback e-mails have mentioned that they couldn’t vote.

I ran over to my story after reading the first one, and modestly gave myself a five.

“Error, your vote wasn’t counted,” it told me.

Being a daring devil, I went back and voted myself a four.

“Error.”

I dropped a letter to the Webmaster, got a nice reply saying that they were doing some work and I shouldn’t interpret this as their way of asking me to leave.

Saying, “what the heck,” I tried to vote myself a 3.

“Thank you for voting, would you like to send feedback?”

Yes!

“Arrggghh!”

My story is proudly standing at 3.75, with 16 votes. (Counting mine.)

I’m tempted to demand my money back.

Oh, wait. It’s free. Literotica is also huge, complex, and runs surprisingly well, considering all they try to do.

It’s hard for me to remember that I’m not really the center of the universe, and when things like this happen, I sit down and tell myself the obvious:

“The vast right-wing conspiracy is far too busy persecuting those poor, innocent Clintons to be bothering me. It’s just my usual, fucked up bad luck, and no one is to blame.”

There, I feel so much better, and I hope you do too, americandemon.

 

[KillerMuffin]

I hope they get that whole thing fixed over there pretty soon. The search and the voting and the stuff.

Though, I was perfectly able to vote for you here, margo:

https://forum.literotica.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=147358

 

[Chicklet]

Voting Errors

I've come across these from time to time, on my stories and on others. A little email to Laurel usually fixes it up - I don't know what the problem is exactly but I'm sure they'll fix it for you, margo.

Chicklet

 

[MathGirl]

Whoopieee!

Hey, I just became a "Literotica Goo Roo". Does that pay more than my previous classification? Do I get a badge or something? Car with driver, maybe? Fancy uniform? Club membership? Free tickets? Discounts? Executive washroom privileges? Free VD exam?

I'll take most anything. I'm not picky.

 

[Chicklet]

<hands over the official literotica guru pin>

 

[MathGirl]

Hooray for moi

<hands over the official literotica guru pin>

Gosh, don't I feel special. Blush

 

[Chicklet]

wear it with pride, darlin'

 

[margo_x_x]

I hope they get that whole thing fixed over there pretty soon. The search and the voting and the stuff.

Though, I was perfectly able to vote for you here, margo:

https://forum.literotica.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=147358

Oh my God! I didn’t even know. Thank you, thank you, thank you, KillerMuffin.

In case anyone around here doesn’t know, KillerMuffin is responsible for a good chunk of the writing improvement in this joint. Her footprints are on Love Potion Number Nine, by the way, although the crux of the story idea came from a wonderful thirst quencher called, “Long Island Iced Tea.”

I wouldn’t be rubbing shoulders with the likes of, Wm_Sexspear, Zazbek, masterhypnotist, and Just_John1 if it weren’t for Alex de KOK. It wasn’t until after he gave me some remedial lessons that I stopped getting e-mails asking me what my first language was. (Gibberish, in case anyone is still curious.)

Okay, stop laughing. I know it isn’t the Academy Awards, but it still tickles the shit out of me.

 

[MathGirl]

PSB.com

. I was so good at not coming into your precious boards. Now all this...... not fair.
Demon

Dear AD,

I'm afraid you're in for a long, long series of disappointments if you come to this site for fairness and sympathy. Personally, I tend to be something of a smart ass, and I'm not alone. You might try:

www.poorsweetbaby.com

Helpfully Yours,
Diane

 

[Octavian]

How many fours and fives?

Originally posted by MathGirl

I guess I'm naive. Is there some way to how many 4,5,etc. votes a story got? All I've ever seen are the cumulative averages.

Do you have excel, Diane?
I set up a spreadsheet which allows you to play around with the numbers and the scores of the votes in order to match your average score. It is not perfect in that there may be more than one combination of values to achieve the same average, but it gives a fair indication.

Octavian aka MathBoy!

 

[MathGirl]

Re: How many fours and fives?

Originally posted by MathGirl



Do you have excel, Diane?
I set up a spreadsheet which allows you to play around with the numbers and the scores of the votes in order to match your average score. It is not perfect in that there may be more than one combination of values to achieve the same average, but it gives a fair indication.

Octavian aka MathBoy!

Dear O,
Thank you for the suggestion. I was wondering if there is some sort of list of the individual votes. No big deal, though.
Diane the Curious

 

[gauchecritic]

A list for individual votes? I want their names and addresses, the bastards.

Gauche

 

[MathGirl]

&*())_(& voters

A list for individual votes? I want their names and addresses, the bastards.

I think it's best to be able to vote anonymously. It spares some well deserved bloodshed. I'd like the bastards' names and addresses, too, of course.

 

[Chicklet]

A list for individual votes? I want their names and addresses, the bastards.

Gauche

yeah, i especially want this for someone who wrote of one of my poems "two minutes of my life i can never get back" i want to punch him in the face and then say "it took you TWO MINUTES to read 30 words?!"

 

[Dirt Man]

I seem to have stirred the pot a bit I'm afraid...

Well, here we are once again discussing the voting problem here at literotica, but thankfully I didn't bring it up this time. LOL In any event, I've given up all hope of ever having my stories treated fairly here as far as the voting is concerned. And I'm even thinking of leaving here for good because of it. But we'll see.

As for your new and higher scores Chicklet, congratulations. I knew you were above a 4.5 average writer.

As Always
I Am the
Dirt Man

 

[margo_x_x]

I’ve been preaching a three tier system ever since I got five “ones” in less than a half hour on a story that had shot to the top in its category. (An H popping up next to my story when it only has ten votes has always been the kiss of death for me.)

The simple fact is, the present five-option system gives disproportionate power to the scumbags who use ‘ones’ as a weapon.

Some of these ‘one bandits’ may be authors, who want their stories to rank higher on a list. Some of them may have it in for a particular writer. There may even be something in the story that infuriates them so much that they want to strike back. (Warning: Saying something nice about Ronald Reagan in your story could be hazardous to you score.) In other words, not all the “ones” are cast by the scum-suckers we may have pictured in our minds.

Should we all get paranoid? Is that person who sounds so sweet when we’re exchanging board messages be turning around and blowing our scores off the edge of the world? Should we all hide under rocks and hope the ‘one bandits’ don’t see us?

NO!

Just take away the extra power. There are only three levels in a story. Great, Okay, and sucks. That’s all we need to score everything.

Great equals 100
Okay equals 50
And sucks is 0

I give you a great, 100. Joe gives you an okay, 50. That’s a 75, and easy to understand.

Here’s an example from a story I wrote:

First ten votes were all 5’s. The eleventh and twelfth votes were 1’s, dropping it to 4.33, and I cast the thirteenth vote myself (an immodest 5) bringing it up to 4.38. I haven’t had any more votes on it since then. Ten people thought this particular story was great, (eleven, if you count me) and two (or one voting twice) thought it sucked (or something.).

4.38 consigns a story to oblivion. That’s a lot of power for two (or possibly one) voter to have, and negates the opinions of ten other voters. Here’s how those same scores would play out in my system:

Eleven votes of 'great', 1100
Two votes of 'sucks', 0

Score, 84.62%

With that score, I’d know that I don’t walk on water, but I’d still feel warm and fuzzy. Best of all, it would take three times as much work to screw up someone else’s score. Who knows, maybe some of the ‘one bandits’ would figure it was just too much bother and find some flies to pull the wings off instead.