Literotica Signature Lines

[Rybka]

Does anyone do more than just ignore the Literotica signature lines? Besides maybe reading them the first time? Does anybody ever click on the author's links?
I know that I at least never get any votes or hits after the first day or so, and votes never stick for long anyway.

Has anyone, for instance, clicked on Lauren.Hynde's link to her holiday contest story? It is the best written piece I have read on Literotica in quite sometime, certainly the most literate.
It was just posted today, so I won't hold it against you if you haven't read it yet, it currently has a 4.83 rating, but I don't how many votes. A story must have 25 votes to be considered for a prize in this year's contest. So go read it and vote for the Porto-princess! I have never even had a posting with 25 votes! Go help our multi-ligual Miss amass the most!

Letters from Pohjola

Another poet, champagne1982 also has a story in this year's holiday contest and will surely welcome your support as well! Read and vote for:
Welcome Home

Support your local poets!

I tried to enter a poem in the contest, but because of the server caused drought it has never been posted.

I see from another thread that I missed the holiday contest entry of another poet, which I did not mean to do.

*Catbabe* also deserves our support. She has entered an excellently written story called:

Making It

 

[Maria2394]

Hi Rybka,
maybe I am a minority here, but I do click on author's links. I often see something that I am waaaay too lazy to go looking for the author page ( or a web site I would otherwise have no idea existed) and the links in the sig lines make it easier.
In fact, I have clicked your links..many times...but, the yellow is sort of hard for me to see sometimes

PS, thanks for the FB, and I am working on some of the ideas you suggested

 

[Lauren Hynde]

Thank you for the extra publicity and compliments, Rybka.

It seems to be working, as I have just checked my CP and I now have 27 votes.


I'm with Maria. I follow links in signatures all the time, sometimes to read whatever poem or story or whatever is announced there, more often to reach the author's page and browse.

 

[*Catbabe*]

Thanks for mentioning my story Rybka and for the compliment on the writing.

I never would have expected it (being new to the poetry board) but it was very nice to read.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

Support your local poets!

You know, I think it's a shame none of us remembered this before. I was very sad when I found out Carrie's story/poem for the Halloween Contest didn't get at least the necessary 25 votes to make the cut.

I think we should do our best so that does happen again this time. I did my bit, and voted on Catbabe's and Carrie's stories, and so should we all. We still have a few more days!

 

[KillerMuffin]

I have sig-lines decidedly turned off. Too many people have turned them into pages long billboards to tolerate. Pictures, poems, quotes from anyone who's ever said anything nice about them.

Icky.

 

[darkmaas]

Sorry to be so icky.

Poem's gone!

 

[Angeline]

<-------------- proudly staying icky.

 

[Icingsugar]

I click on nice people's links. I provide links if someone like me thinks that I'm nice people.

And I try to keep it as non-icky as I can.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

I do my best to keep my signature tasteful and small and I don't think I ever had links to more than one poem at a time.

 

[*Catbabe*]

I don't have a big sig line because I am too lazy to do it but I love reading everyone else's.

To me they are like reading the inside flap of a book. The good ones hook me, make me want to open it up and then read the whole thing.

 

[champagne1982]

I have sig-lines decidedly turned off. Too many people have turned them into pages long billboards to tolerate. Pictures, poems, quotes from anyone who's ever said anything nice about them.

Icky.

I note that although KillerMuffin isn't reading ours she's not above having "something" in her signature line. To whit: "The Bullet of Justice caps evil's ass! Remember that."

--Goody Goody Excel

So never worry about being 'icky' friends and poets, 'tis all just a matter of taste.

Thankyou Rybka and all others for your support. If you're expecting sex and big long details in my holiday story, don't be too disappointed when you don't get it. Sometimes I like to paint a smaller picture.

 

[annaswirls]

clickin on links

I click on the links of people whose poems I have enjoyed currently, as I am new here, and know I have missed a lot-- you have all been playing a long time before I existed....very nicely I might add.

Ry, the reason that 3 of yours need one, and a few weeks back, you had one that needed 2 was because I clicked on the link and voted for one of them.


I don't really understand the whole voting thing actually. I thought it was more of a rating system, but it seems to be more of a tip of the hat just to get the vote?

I don't really think too much about the H, it is just really interesting to see which way different poems go-- some of mine that I think suck get higher ratings then the ones I really tried to make good. It is an educational experience, but when people don't vote/rate for whatever reason (time is one I am sure) you don't get that feedback.


I do not have a signature line because I am too lazy and I want to spend all my "free" time sucking in the poems around me and occasionally spitting one of my own out.


PERSONALLY I want to do a signature line saying HEY what about THESE why don't they have a big old H next to them, and posting the ones I really loved..... but I guess that is what the new poetry forum is for? What about the ones that are not new anymore?

I guess I have seen some golden oldie type additions to the posts. .....


BUT what is frustrating, is that so few have the H and so often I do not even feel they stand out nearly as much as the ones who do not have the H, so there is no other way of sorting through.

There are SO many out there and to read anything besides the new ones, and previously posted poems of my favorites, is a daunting task. I wish there was another way of rating, not to sound snotty, as I know where most of mine would wind up.... the men from the boys, the wheat from the shaft, the diamonds from the cubic zirconia so to speak.

Has this been done? Where people post their favorites of others? Make it easy on the new folks to find the great ones?


As always I am probably making another mistake pre-mature posting before I figure it out on my own.

At least I didn't swear on this one.

oops


Thanks! I think I answered the question and then wrote what should have been a new thread.


AS

 

[Guest]

Does anyone do more than just ignore the Literotica signature lines? Besides maybe reading them the first time? Does anybody ever click on the author's links?
I know that I at least never get any votes or hits after the first day or so, and votes never stick for long anyway.

Followed your link today....

b

 

[annaswirls]

PERSONALLY I want to do a signature line saying HEY what about THESE why don't they have a big old H next to them, and posting the ones I really loved..... but I guess that is what the new poetry forum is for? What about the ones that are not new anymore

oops

forgot to put
HEY what about these that OTHER people wrote eek

 

[Rybka]

Signature Lines

I click on the links of people whose poems I have enjoyed currently, as I am new here . . .

That is the reason many of us post links to some of our work in the signature lines. We are trolling for new readers.

Ry, the reason that 3 of yours need one, and a few weeks back, you had one that needed 2 was because I clicked on the link and voted for one of them.

Reads, votes, and comments are always welcome by everyone, and I thank you.

I don't really understand the whole voting thing actually. I thought it was more of a rating system, but it seems to be more of a tip of the hat just to get the vote?

Votes are nice, but not a very accurate representation of a poems quality. Friends tend to overvalue a poet's work, and there always seems to be someone out there who enjoys voting a 1 merely to drag an average down. Furthermore votes seem to have a shelf-life and tend to evaporate after a while. - This is thought to have something to do with glitches in the software program that monitors the vote counts for fraud.

I don't really think too much about the H, it is just really interesting to see which way different poems go-- some of mine that I think suck get higher ratings then the ones I really tried to make good. It is an educational experience, but when people don't vote/rate for whatever reason (time is one I am sure) you don't get that feedback.

The H requires at least 10 votes and an average of at least 4.5. Very few poems get there within one day, and even fewer manage to remain there.

I do not have a signature line because I am too lazy and I want to spend all my "free" time sucking in the poems around me and occasionally spitting one of my own out.

Anna, as long as you keep feeding us the quality of work that you have so far, no one will object to anything else you choose to do or don't do!

PERSONALLY I want to do a signature line saying HEY what about THESE why don't they have a big old H next to them, and posting the ones I really loved..... but I guess that is what the new poetry forum is for? What about the ones that are not new anymore? I guess I have seen some golden oldie type additions to the posts. .....

WE or Angie, or somebody started such a thread a few months back. At that time I suggested that the reviewer of the new poems for the day include one "oldie". I still do this, but no one else has picked up on the idea. There is a random "story spinner" button on both the non-erotic and the erotic poetry submission listings, if anyone wants to see what they can find. Beyond that you could go to the best poems' list and read your way down the top 100 rated poems.

BUT what is frustrating, is that so few have the H and so often I do not even feel they stand out nearly as much as the ones who do not have the H, so there is no other way of sorting through.

De gustibus non est disputandum. Plus as mentioned above a lot of the ratings are not accurate; if not down-right bogus.

There are SO many out there and to read anything besides the new ones, and previously posted poems of my favorites, is a daunting task. I wish there was another way of rating, not to sound snotty, as I know where most of mine would wind up.... the men from the boys, the wheat from the shaft, the diamonds from the cubic zirconia so to speak.

Has this been done? Where people post their favorites of others? Make it easy on the new folks to find the great ones?
. . .
AS

See above . . . But you can always start such a thread, like my joke thread, but be aware that you may end up the primary poster.

"Wheat from the shaft"? Is that a new Swirly?

Regards, Rybka

 

[jthserra]

I did go to Lauren's story

from her link... It was handy.

I'm not sure if I would have found it without the link. She'll pull a lot more than 25 votes. My most recent story got 40 votes. Once I dropped off the H list, the votes disappeared.

It is incredible the reads and votes a story will get...


jim

 

[Angeline]

C'mon somebody vote on Esther's Ether Psalm. (I did already.)

I read sig lines, absolutely, though I'm less inclined to click on links to poems here because I almost always read the new poems. (If you posted it, I probably read it.) I will look at folks' offsite pages if they're linking to poetry or stories. I also enjoy seeing the poem excerpts people use in their sig lines. I'm always on the lookout to learn something new, so I do enjoy that reading.

I don't ask for votes because I have mixed feelings about them. I hate the idea of numbers that generate "top lists" because that's not why I'm here--I "win" by learning and becoming a better writer from reading your poems and forum posts, not by being at the top of a list. Of course I want to know what people think, and I truly appreciate specific, critical feedback. You can't get that from a number. On the other hand, I recognize that the coveted H brings more readers and, thus, more potential for feedback

And I post whatever strikes my fancy in my own sig line. I suppose I think it's mainly for my own enjoyment, though sometimes I think my sig lines get outta control, at which point I shred em.

 

[jthserra]

I have to wonder

about the links in the signature line... After finally figuring out how to get them there, I did pick up a quick read on my first link, but haven't gotten anything on the other two.

As for Rybka's links, I think I clicked on two out of the three. I just now figured up what the numbers there were. I guess I really didn't pay a whole lot of attention to it.

I will occasionally read a quote on a signature line... I haven't read Angeline's yet though. I guess I don't read much below the signature line now that I think about it.


jim (who is going to read Angeline's quote...)

 

[Guest]

*slight hi-jack*

At that time I suggested that the reviewer of the new poems for the day include one "oldie". I still do this, but no one else has picked up on the idea. There is a random "story spinner" button on both the non-erotic and the erotic poetry submission listings, if anyone wants to see what they can find. Beyond that you could go to the best poems' list and read your way down the top 100 rated poems

I think that's a great idea, Rybka and always enjoy the spinners you find. I vouch to use the spinnner button when ever I post comments on new poems in here.

 

[Icingsugar]

The reason my sigline looks like it does is that it attracts some attention. Not from you lot, as Angeline said, most of you read the new poems anyway, or at least follow recommendation in the New thread. But since I post the same little blighter in the Authors Hangout, and in assorted other threads on various forums, people who know me tend to click on the links, and I've actually gotten a handful of mails from people who have said things like "I don't normally read poerty, but I liked this." after reading 1 or 2 of mine, and then I reply "Well, if you liked my stuff you're gonna LOVE this, and this, and this, and this..." raining URL's to my fav poems here.

I'd say that I've turned at least a handful of ppl who thought poerty was...well...weird, into at least periodic readers of the incoming stuff.

So whatever annoyance a colorful sig is to some, I think it's well worth it.

 

[Rybka]

Signature Links

So as not to seem like a whining baby, I want to state that I really don't care about votes.

What really does tend to bug me is vote evaporation. I must admit that I hate it when a poem that has reached the "magic 10" drops back down in count again. - All the ones I have recently posted in my signature lines (except "What Has Got Rot") had 10 or more votes at one time, but the "Meanie Genie" made them go "POOF".

My next sig. change will highlight my one Literotica story, which has 2394 views but only 6 votes (and no feedback or comments) at this time (It once got as high as 12). The sig. will also include the corresponding poem (699 views, 12 votes, 0 fb or pc). - I am sure a lot of the newer poets don't know (or probably even care) that I ever wrote a story.


Regards, Rybka

 

[annaswirls]

beginning to see the light

Okay I get it.

SO I have been clicking on signature lines left and right (doesn't help that last night was the first night in weeks I slept more than 4-5 hours and I still had the mandatory 4-5 cups of Joe)



Playing a little Tag game with the poems I have not read yet.


So the sig line IS like a way of saying hey, these are the good ones! Because the ones I have tagged ARE wonderful.


It makes SO much sense to me now, the getting non-poetry readers in on the action is the best I have heard, although the bizarre act of a genie eating votes, that is just freaky.

I am a bit slow...
In the school of life, I most definately need summer school
Remediation
Extra credit.


and I will slow down long enough to make my own.

Profile signature, that is.

And maybe even one of those cool ass pictures you all have.

God I love being the new kid. I used to hate that feeling of not knowing what the hell is going on.

I have two diet cokes somewhere in this house each missing two sips.

Must
go
find
them

Then back to TAG you are it

AS

 

[Angeline]

Re: Signature Links

So as not to seem like a whining baby, I want to state that I really don't care about votes.

What really does tend to bug me is vote evaporation. I must admit that I hate it when a poem that has reached the "magic 10" drops back down in count again. - All the ones I have recently posted in my signature lines (except "What Has Got Rot") had 10 or more votes at one time, but the "Meanie Genie" made them go "POOF".

My next sig. change will highlight my one Literotica story, which has 2394 views but only 6 votes (and no feedback or comments) at this time (It once got as high as 12). The sig. will also include the corresponding poem (699 views, 12 votes, 0 fb or pc). - I am sure a lot of the newer poets don't know (or probably even care) that I ever wrote a story.


Regards, Rybka

Fishy I think you ask for votes to get new readers and feedback--hope you don't think I meant anything besides that.

Personally I think my ambivalence about the whole vote thing is a bit neurotic, but I get that way sometimes, lol.

 

[*Catbabe*]

Re: Signature Links

- I am sure a lot of the newer poets don't know (or probably even care) that I ever wrote a story.


Regards, Rybka

I didn't know. I look forward to reading it tomorrow.