incase you didn't know

[WickedEve]

I'm not sure if this has been posted here before, but I believe most of us have been under the impression that our thermometer ratings don't effect the score. Well, sometimes they do.

"You must give a rating to the story to leave a comment. If you have voted on the submission previously, then the vote you leave with the comment will not count toward the submission's total."

At least, I assume that the "vote you leave with the comment" is the thermometer rating. So you may want to vote first before you leave a comment with a rating. Many times, I don't, and many times I leave it neutral (50). I didn't realize that the thermometer was counted toward the score. I'm aware of that now thanks to someone who made sure I knew about it.

 

[tungtied2u]

I'm not sure if this has been posted here before, but I believe most of us have been under the impression that our thermometer ratings don't effect the score. Well, sometimes they do.

"You must give a rating to the story to leave a comment. If you have voted on the submission previously, then the vote you leave with the comment will not count toward the submission's total."

At least, I assume that the "vote you leave with the comment" is the thermometer rating. So you may want to vote first before you leave a comment with a rating. Many times, I don't, and many times I leave it neutral (50). I didn't realize that the thermometer was counted toward the score. I'm aware of that now thanks to someone who made sure I knew about it.

I think I saw a comment to that effect as well Eve...and so changed my method....sort of use a combination of the 2 to get a fine tuning to my vote.

Even when reviewing now, I vote both ways...

wish I could have voted twice in the last election...

 

[thenry]

Disregarding the whole "thermometer has four numbers, voting has five" thing, as well as the question of what would happen to a thermometer vote if the comment was deleted, thermometer impact is pretty easy to disprove.

Take this poem, currently number two on the chart with a perfect 5.00 rating. Not all of the thermometers are set to a hundred.

The instruction is just wrong. You do not have to vote to leave a public comment. Test it yourself with you latest poems by self-commenting without voting with a zero thermometer rating.

 

[flyguy69]

Disregarding the whole "thermometer has four numbers, voting has five" thing, as well as the question of what would happen to a thermometer vote if the comment was deleted, thermometer impact is pretty easy to disprove.

Take this poem, currently number two on the chart with a perfect 5.00 rating. Not all of the thermometers are set to a hundred.

The instruction is just wrong. You do not have to vote to leave a public comment. Test it yourself with you latest poems by self-commenting without voting with a zero thermometer rating.

I don't know what happens in the bowels of lit (who wants to stick their head in there?), but the example of anna's poem doesn't disprove Eve's assertion. If the thermometer set at fifty were submitted by someone that had already voted, it would not count.

 

[thenry]

Do the reviewers vote? I took the 50 to mean the reviewer was impartial.

Edited to add: I hope you don't mind, flyguy, buy since you seem interested in the bowels of lit and had a poem posted today, I left you a comment.

 

[WickedEve]

Do the reviewers vote? I took the 50 to mean the reviewer was impartial.

Edited to add: I hope you don't mind, flyguy, buy since you seem interested in the bowels of lit and had a poem posted today, I left you a comment.

I vote on the poems using the 1-5 voting system, or whatever you call it. Sometimes, I go back and leave a comment that the poem has been reviewed, and sometimes, I leave it at 50 for that. I honestly don't know how this whole voting thing works. But someone said that my thermometer rating of 50 showed up immediately as a 3 vote on his/her poem. I felt bad about it. I'd like to know for sure before I three everyone unintentionally. Actually, it would be easier to have just 1 voting system.

 

[flyguy69]

Do the reviewers vote? I took the 50 to mean the reviewer was impartial.

Edited to add: I hope you don't mind, flyguy, buy since you seem interested in the bowels of lit and had a poem posted today, I left you a comment.

Lol! Are you suggesting an excretory theme has overtaken me? Three votes, so far, of which yours is probably the highest!

Boy, am I pissed....

 

[Lauren Hynde]

Disregarding the whole "thermometer has four numbers, voting has five" thing...

That's not exactly true. The thermometer has 5 settings as well:

1 - 0%
2 - 25%
3 - 50%
4 - 75%
5 - 100%



When I review, I vote. Doesn't mean I'm not impartial.

 

[thenry]

That's not exactly true. The thermometer has 5 settings as well.

You know, I noticed that for the first time as well. Which is why, on my test, I couldn't bring myself to set a 0. Just in case.

 

[DanaQt]

..............

 

[Christina O. Leigh]

I hate it when that happens.
That name isn't deleted. I don't know how to do it!

 

[Liar]

Basically:
If I do vote first, the thermometer rating will not count on the average score.

But if I don't vote, the thermometer score will also be your vote.

Cool. Since I always set the therm like I voted, I'm in the clear.

#L

 

[Toast.]

aka Christina O. Leigh *pow*

This was a secret?

 

[thenry]

Alright, this is my most invisible poem, which is to say it has three votes and a score of 4.33 (two 4's and a five). I can't trust myself not to have voted, though I don't remember doing it, and I'm assuming the only comment was left by someone who both voted himself and is no longer here.

Would someone please do me the honor of, without numerically voting, leaving me a clever public comment and a zero thermometer vote?

 

[Lauren Hynde]

I asked someone to not vote on one of my poems and leave a comment, and the thermometer vote was indeed counted.

 

[Christina O. Leigh]

Originally posted by Toast
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This was a secret?

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Not that this has anything to do with this thread and won't comment in here anymore about it but....
A secret? No. I wanted to start over fresh and that's my prerogative. I've been trying to delete the other work from danaqt and add it to the name I plan to keep- just having some problems with it. I don't think I have to explain myself. I'm not going around and hurting people. If so, it's never intensional. Also, I didn't have to say who I was. but I did.

 

[Tathagata]

I'm not sure if this has been posted here before, but I believe most of us have been under the impression that our thermometer ratings don't effect the score. Well, sometimes they do.

"You must give a rating to the story to leave a comment. If you have voted on the submission previously, then the vote you leave with the comment will not count toward the submission's total."

At least, I assume that the "vote you leave with the comment" is the thermometer rating. So you may want to vote first before you leave a comment with a rating. Many times, I don't, and many times I leave it neutral (50). I didn't realize that the thermometer was counted toward the score. I'm aware of that now thanks to someone who made sure I knew about it.

Huh??

 

[twelveoone]

I'm not sure if this has been posted here before, but I believe most of us have been under the impression that our thermometer ratings don't effect the score. Well, sometimes they do.

"You must give a rating to the story to leave a comment. If you have voted on the submission previously, then the vote you leave with the comment will not count toward the submission's total."

At least, I assume that the "vote you leave with the comment" is the thermometer rating. So you may want to vote first before you leave a comment with a rating. Many times, I don't, and many times I leave it neutral (50). I didn't realize that the thermometer was counted toward the score. I'm aware of that now thanks to someone who made sure I knew about it.

is that why you are wearing a bag over your head?

 

[WickedEve]

Re: Re: incase you didn't know

is that why you are wearing a bag over your head?

I don't get what you're talking about.

 

[Christina O. Leigh]

That doesn't look like a bag

 

[WickedEve]

That doesn't look like a bag

I never know what he's going on about. He must be living inside a bag. Maybe he was calling me a bag. Or he has baggy britches. I don't know... If I think about it too much, I'll be up all night and end up with bags under my eyes.

 

[twelveoone]

Re: Re: Re: incase you didn't know

I don't get what you're talking about.

what in the hell are you wearing? I don't see a face.

 

[WickedEve]

Re: Re: Re: Re: incase you didn't know

what in the hell are you wearing? I don't see a face.

Oh, stop before you end up with the vapors.
I'm on one side of the photo (taken 2 years ago) and then there's another photo of my hand on a painting.
Anyway, I'll go find one with my silly face and a bag. I swear, you annoy me, number two. Why do you do that? You have a talent for it, do you know that?

 

[twelveoone]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: incase you didn't know

Oh, stop before you end up with the vapors.
I'm on one side of the photo (taken 2 years ago) and then there's another photo of my hand on a painting.
Anyway, I'll go find one with my silly face and a bag. I swear, you annoy me, number two. Why do you do that? You have a talent for it, do you know that?

I'm sorry eve, I do need glasses, now I see a face

 

[WickedEve]

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I'm sorry eve, I do need glasses, now I see a face

Of course you do, square root, and can you see that I'm sticking something in my mouth?