I guess somebody doesn't like me

[sun_sea_sky]

Nobody here cares about the score going down. Only what it takes to move the score up. It take seven 5s to offset one 1--the only goal anyone is looking at is the red H.

If the current score is 4.5. You have to add that qualification.

 

[nakdsub]

I guess I should have realized...

That SR71 couldn't help but take a shot at me. And I've been so nice lately too.

 

[sr71plt]

Until/unless Laurel or Manu says otherwise (which, unfortunately they rarely do--just leaving us all to agonize and discuss this for the 3,654th time with newbies), the forum conventional wisdom is that you cannot preserve a vote from the same Internet account you posted the story with and no one else on the Interent account can preserve a vote even if they stand on their head while they vote--and have their own Literotica account. Until Laurel or Manu say that's not true, that's the forum conventional wisdom here. And unless you can get Laurel or Manu to say otherwise, technical examples mean nothing to the conventional belief here.

Later:

Turns out Laurel did comment on this recently, and said that authors could vote on their own stories--once. This reference was PMed to me.

http://forum.literotica.com/showpost.php?p=41881738&postcount=21

 

[sun_sea_sky]

If they chose to lower the bar for the red "H" to 4.2 rather than 4.5 that would somewhat reduce the effect (from 7 votes to 4 to recover).

Details:

4.2 - 1 = 3.2 score difference
5 - 4.2 = 0.8 per 5*
Thus it would take 3.2 / 0.8 = 4 votes to recover.


And looking on the bright side, a few of my stories would qualify! yay!

 

[Bramblethorn]

You can't make that blanket assertion. It all depends on the pool of existing votes. The more votes, the less the effect of a 1-bomb.

Depends what you mean by 'effect'. If we're talking about the number of 5s required to cancel out the 1-bomb (i.e. restore your average to what it was before) then no, the number of pre-existing votes doesn't matter at all.

If you had two prior votes (4 and 5) giving 4.5 then yes, it will take seven 5*s to negate a 1*.

But if you have 14 prior votes then the 1* is diluted, and it takes 5 x 5* to recover. And once you get (say) 100 votes then someone has to work hard to drag you down.

I think you've slipped up in your calculations somewhere.

If you have 4.5 off 14 votes before the bomber hits, that's a total of 4.5*14 = 63 points. Add one '1' and you have 64 points off 15 votes = average 4.27. Add five '5's and you have 89 off 20: average 4.45.

But once you add two more '5's, for a total of seven, you're up to 99 off 22, which averages out to exactly 4.5.

If you're sitting on 4.5 from 100 votes, and somebody 1-bombs you, it still takes seven 5s to bring you back up to 4.5.

 

[sun_sea_sky]

I think you've slipped up in your calculations somewhere.

I withdraw that reality and substitute the one in my more recent posts.

 

[Feotakahari]

Let's face it, the REAL way to fix this would be to switch out the five-star ratings for a simple like/dislike system. But this site's functioned too long under one system to easily transition to another. (See also: the notoriously inaccurate viewcounts, which if changed to be more accurate would give older stories more views than newer ones.)

 

[sr71plt]

That SR71 couldn't help but take a shot at me. And I've been so nice lately too.

What are you nattering on about? I neither posted to you or about you on this thread (until now). Didn't even notice you had posted. Persecution complex much?

 

[sr71plt]

Let's face it, the REAL way to fix this would be to switch out the five-star ratings for a simple like/dislike system. But this site's functioned too long under one system to easily transition to another. (See also: the notoriously inaccurate viewcounts, which if changed to be more accurate would give older stories more views than newer ones.)

They probably have already instituted the best fix and just not completed it. They now put the rating number next to the story title. If they now just didn't assign the red hot, everyone would look at the rating number and decide for themselves what was hot enough to look at.

 

[sun_sea_sky]

I'm inclined to agree with sr71plt here. The difference in "heat" of a 4.49 and a 4.51 story would be marginal at best, especially if trolls start weighing in with 1-votes. To get over 4 you have to have a lot of people voting "really liked it" and quite a few voting "one of the best". So really, anything above 4 should be considered potentially a good read.

If they assigned an "H" to 4 and above, then it would take only 3 x 5* to counter 1 x 1*, so the occasional troll wouldn't have much effect.

 

[sun_sea_sky]

Until/unless Laurel or Manu says otherwise (which, unfortunately they rarely do--just leaving us all to agonize and discuss this for the 3,654th time with newbies) ...

I'm tempted to send a politely-worded message to Laurel/Manu about how to reduce the impact of trolls, but, hey, what would newbies know?

 

[JustaSCOUNDREL]

For anyone interested in getting some Rough, rough being the operative word, on how your scores break down here is a link.

http://www.literotica.com/s/how-to-analyze-your-scores


You do need to be willing to do some pretty basic arithmetic, but the results can be interesting.

Mike

ETA: Thank you Carlus

 

[MSTarot]

the answer is really a very simple one.

Write a story so fucking good that you get hundreds of five votes. Then one little troll or a dozen won't make the least bit of difference.

Its a simple answer yes. But a lot of hard work. Try to make even the trolls go "damn that was a good story."

maybe they will feel bad for a second or two before they give you the one.

Not likely but It's a goal to strive for.

Remember even the top story on site has a bad comment somewhere in it's list and at least a few one votes.

M.S. Tarot

 

[Brandie69]

As someone who has lurked as a reader, on and off, for years, and who has only this summer started to join in as a writer, I have a theory.

In the last 7 to 10 days, it seems that negative vibes are everywhere. Lots of votes, with lower vote numbers, public and private comment trolls, 1-bombs, etc. and so forth.

Something else happened about 7 to 10 days ago. College campuses opened.

This is my first September as a writer, or paying attention to such things. Could it be that the youngsters are running loose?

B