Monthly and Annual awards

[DG Hear]

I checked the awards page and believe that the readers choice awards, both monthly and annually should be eliminated. Even though I have won in both award programs in the past they seem to be outdated. I doubt many authors are hyped up to win these awards.

The Annual awards for 2011 were to be voted on months ago (which it wasn't) and should have been voted on a year ago.

The Monthy award for August 2011 hasn't been named either. It states it will be named within I think 30 days, not a year in a half.

It would be hard to tell this long after the monthly stories closed what the vote was and if they had the right amount of votes at the time.

I usually just go with the flow but I think these two awards got out of hand and should just be eliminated. Any other opinions out there in A/H land?

With respect
DG Hear

 

[TxRad]

I think that they have more or less eliminated themselves.

 

[PennLady]

I'm with you, DG, also having won a couple of those. I think it's ridiculous to be 18 months or better behind on those things. But I think we'd have to take it to Laurel, either as a petition or poll or individual PMs.

I've always wondered why those contests calculations aren't automated, or partly automated. Seems like it'd be easy enough. Might take some time to set it up, but once it's set up, off you go.

 

[soflabbwlvr]

Just give everyone who has submitted a story since August, 2011 an award. Or multiple awards. Then start over in February, 2013.

 

[sr71plt]

The whole Web site could use a serious cleanout . . . but we just glump along, still finding value in what's here.

 

[D_Lynn]

I've never understood how those contests even work. How do you nominate a story for those? How do you vote?

So, I guess what I'm saying is that I agree with you. I think.

 

[TimothyM]

I suppose the monthly awards are the only ones that can be won by authors who do not enter contests, and this may be a reason why Lit wants to keep them.

Does a winning story get the blue W, or is it just the money ? The first part may be the most important, but if they don't get round to awarding them anyway, what's the point.

So as representative of those non-contest-participating authors I would like to say that I totally agree that the monthly and yearly awards can be eliminated. I don't care about them and would never even have been aware that they existed if people hadn't been mentioning them here.

Not that I expect Lit to listen to AH or members anyway - yeah I've been on this site less than a year, but I'm already cynical, must be the bad influence of AH

 

[TxRad]

I've never understood how those contests even work. How do you nominate a story for those? How do you vote?

So, I guess what I'm saying is that I agree with you. I think.

All stories are automatically nominated just by posting. You vote just like on any story. The top scoring stories in each category wins the monthly.

I suppose the monthly awards are the only ones that can be won by authors who do not enter contests, and this may be a reason why Lit wants to keep them.

Does a winning story get the blue W, or is it just the money ? The first part may be the most important, but if they don't get round to awarding them anyway, what's the point.

So as representative of those non-contest-participating authors I would like to say that I totally agree that the monthly and yearly awards can be eliminated. I don't care about them and would never even have been aware that they existed if people hadn't been mentioning them here.

Not the I expect Lit to listen to AH or members anyway - yeah I've been on this site less than a year, but I'm already cynical, must be the bad influence of AH

Yes, you do get a Blue W for a monthly win. I don't remember about the money but i think there was some.

 

[PennLady]

I've never understood how those contests even work. How do you nominate a story for those? How do you vote?

So, I guess what I'm saying is that I agree with you. I think.

For the monthly contests, stories are automatically entered once they hit 25 or 50 votes. Then -- like the themed contests -- the stories with the highest ratings win, provided they haven't won in the previous three or six months, I forget which.

For the annual contests, Laurel posts in the Awards forum for nominations. I'm not sure what the cut off is, i.e., how many nominations a topic needs, etc. But once the nominations are set, there are stickies (I think) to vote on them, and then they post the winners.

But for both the monthly and annual contests, they are terribly far behind. Far enough behind that it's getting silly; as DG noted, they haven't even finished the 2011 monthly awards.

 

[DG Hear]

Here is a link to the monthly awards submissions. Got it from Laurels' guildlines.

http://www.literotica.com/contests/index.html

It also lists the annual contest rules.
Hope it helps with any questions.
DG

 

[TimothyM]

Yes, you do get a Blue W for a monthly win.

Well, that might explain why there are fewer stories from the past two years with blue Ws. In fact there also seem to be few new stories with the green Es, but that may be because I'm not reading in the right categories.

Well, in that case the best solution might be to:
1) get rid of the yearly awards which needs a special posting and nominations and votings as far as I can work out (so they're time consuming)
2) write a programme which will automatically give the blue W awards to the winners of the month in each category, but not give award money (cause that's probably a lot of hassle too).

why am I even bothering to make suggestions (whether they are sensible or not), it's not going to happen. And who cares - TxRad has nailed the matter anyway:

I think that they have more or less eliminated themselves.

 

[ScouriesWorld]

and this is why A.I.R. decided to name a writer of the year...

....ON TIME!!!!!

[size=+2]ASSOCIATION of INDEPENDENT READERS (A.I.R.)[/size]

the "Freddie"

2012 Author of the Year Award

And, after one of the closest votes in the history of A.I.R. we are pleased to announce that the 2012 author of the year award, the Freddie, is going to

[size=+3]

StangStar06[/size]

​

 

[TxRad]

Yes souries, that's just what we need another one of your fake awards from your fake association.

Go back and play in your fake contest and fake lists threads and let the adults talk.

 

[lovecraft68]

Notice he picked an author that never comes to these forums and has no idea what he is associated with.

 

[lovecraft68]

A theory that I have been kicking around is I wonder if they can't afford it.

I think the monthly contests have the same prizes as theme 150/100/75

maybe they can't afford to give away $325 a month plus another $325 for each of the six theme contests.

Plus the "annual awards" which I'm not sure if there was a paid prize for those or not.

 

[TimothyM]

I think you may be right, though the time spent on the logistics may be even more expensive. In any case it makes even more sense to change the monthly awards to just giving the blue W and get rid of the yearly awards.

 

[Darkniciad]

If it's a funding issue, I'm all for eliminating the money awards for the monthlies, or reducing them.

I've always said that I'd be happy with the W and a credit to Jump the Queue for one or two stories so they post immediately.

Any solution that would get them back on track and updating in a timely manner would be good.

Barring that, might as well put them out to pasture. As far behind as they are, they've become irrelevant. ( beyond reflecting badly on the site )

The yearly awards have always been a problem, because they require coming to the forum, and most users either don't know or don't care that the forums are here. That reduces them to nothing more than a Get out the Vote contest.

It would probably help if something was added to the stories page ( not the front page ) announcing them, with a link. I should imagine that most people bookmark the stories index, rather than the front page of the site.

 

[TxRad]

If it's a funding issue, I'm all for eliminating the money awards for the monthlies, or reducing them.

I've always said that I'd be happy with the W and a credit to Jump the Queue for one or two stories so they post immediately.

Any solution that would get them back on track and updating in a timely manner would be good.

Barring that, might as well put them out to pasture. As far behind as they are, they've become irrelevant. ( beyond reflecting badly on the site )

The yearly awards have always been a problem, because they require coming to the forum, and most users either don't know or don't care that the forums are here. That reduces them to nothing more than a Get out the Vote contest.

It would probably help if something was added to the stories page ( not the front page ) announcing them, with a link. I should imagine that most people bookmark the stories index, rather than the front page of the site.

I've often wondered if it was a money problem also. The site is not heavy with advertisements and such. That's good for the readers and users but not so good for profits.

I'm with you on dropping the money and just adding the W if that's what needs to happen to get things back on track. It would cut out some of the greed also.

 

[scouries]

LITEROTICA should:

1) Get rid of the monthly prizes and the Survivor Contest. They've beecome a joke!

2) Let A.I.R. bring their professionalism to the Annual Awards - they will announce the winners within the first 45 days of the following year.

3) Concentrate on improving the Thermed Contests - appoint ScouriesWorld
as contest moderator with a mandate to incorporate the many suggestions they've proposed over the years.

And to help ease the financial pressures the site is experiencing I, james r scouries, will return one point of my hard earned royalty earnings to the site.​

 

[sr71plt]

I can't believe I've missed the whole line of "Thermed" contests here.

 

[TxRad]

Lets see now, what would be the appropriate answers to scouires suggestions.

No.1 We'll get rid of the monthly contests which scouries as the self proclaimed number one writer on Lit could not win even one of in 6 years.

And of course the survivors contest has to go since scouries only writes in incest so he'd never win that either. Not to mention but two stories for all of last year. That's really good don't you think for the sites self proclaimed number one writer.

No. 2 We turn over the year end awards to a fake association made up of scouries and only scouries. Yes, he will announce all the winners withing 45 days. Of course they will all be him. But he only writes in incest. It doesn't really matter. If he can win his own fake winter contest without submitting a story then what's to stop him from winning everything.

No. 3 I don't know what a Thermed Contest is but i do know that scouriesworld is scouries fantasy land and only exists in his mind. As for the many "suggestions" scouries has made over the years, all are pointed at helping him win a real contest on Literotica. With him running the contests, he'll win them all even if he doesn't have a story entered.

As for the last part about him returning part of his royalties, monopoly money won't help anyone's financial woes.

 

[DG Hear]

Wow! Laurel posted the monthly winners for Aug 2011.
Congrats to the winners, but I think it's a bit messed up.
Here are the winners:

Congratulations to the August 2011 Reader's Choice Award Winners!

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Manu and I would like to thank all the authors who submitted during the month, and all the other months for that matter! We've tallied the reader's votes, and are happy to announce the winners of our August People's Choice Awards.

First Place ($150 Cash Prize Winner):
The Loners Ch. 18 / Ozma12533

Second Place ($100 Cash Prize Winner):
Days of High Adventure by bashfullyshameless

Third Place ($75 Cash Prize Winner):
Reading the Defense Ch. 06 / ILmonamour

Thanks again to everyone who voted, submitted, or was involved in Literotica in any way. You are all awesome!

The problem is two of the stories were from the same category Syfy.
The second place winner wasn't even listed in the categories.
Oh well, At least someone won something.



Second Place ($100 Cash Prize Winner):
Days of High Adventure by bashfullyshameless

 

[Darkniciad]

Hope she kept track of who the 4th place winner was, because Days of High Adventure was ineligible due to winning 1st in the Summer Lovin' Contest.

 

[DG Hear]

Hope she kept track of who the 4th place winner was, because Days of High Adventure was ineligible due to winning 1st in the Summer Lovin' Contest.

It's just sad because I believe she really tries. I wish she would just make an announcement that there will no longer be a monthly or annual contest.I like the W as much as the next author but is has just gotten out of hand.

 

[lovecraft68]

The two from the same cat happens all the time which makes me wonder why she wastes time picking a nominee frpm each cat. The double winners are generally always from nh and sci fi

And as always two winners are chapter stories which everyone knows is an unfair scoring advantage

As to needing to find the 4th place story? I am sure she could find an nh story to hand it too

And this is the main reason these things should just be eliminated they are just a love fest for hogh chaptered stories on her favorite categories.

Maybe she keeps them around for the same reason she keeps scouries around just to piss people off.

As for really tries? Please, if you care about your business you do it right or you shouldn't bother