Monthly Contest Confusion

[sincerely_helene]

I have read the faq on how the contest works, but the description seems vague. By "best reader votes", does that mean that someone who has only 30 votes, 15 of them being 5's, stands a chance to beat out someone who has a 100 votes, 50 of them being 5's?

I'll admit, my math skills are quite poor, hence the lame example. I guess I'm just trying to figure out if they use a percentage system. Personally, I don't promote my work via the lit boards and such, so I am bound to not get as many votes or even readers as one who does, but those few who do vote seem to rate me decently.

 

[Guest]

I came.

Bleh.

 

[cloudy]

Don't mind CV.....just a tad on the strange side, like the rest of us.

As for your question, here - copied straight from the FAQ's:

# Stories must receive at least 50 votes to be eligible.

# Votes for the month’s stories will be tallied after the 15th of the following month. (i.e. The voting on stories submitted during April will be closed on May 15th.) Literotica will determine the winners based on the voting score and number of votes the story has accumulated from the first of the contest month to the sometime after 15th of the following month.

# The three stories with the best votes during that time will win prizes as follows – First Place: $100 cash prize; Second Place: $75 cash prize; Third Place: $50 cash prize.

 

[gauchecritic]

If you look at your stories on your submissions page you'll see that they have an average figure. Votes total divided by number of votes. This is how you got the Red Hs. This is what counts in the monthly contest. Anything with a H (more than 4.5 average) is a contender.

Gauche

 

[Weird Harold]

I'll admit, my math skills are quite poor, hence the lame example. I guess I'm just trying to figure out if they use a percentage system.

The contests are determined by the average of votes -- sum of votes / number of votes.

In the case the where two top stores have equal average scores (to three decimal places, IIRC) the story with the larger number of votes wins -- assuming both have at least 50 votes.

I don't know if Laurel ever added a second tie-breaker or not or if two stories with identical votes wind up tied. (I think the story with the shorter time since posting was the proposed second tie-breaker.)

 

[sincerely_helene]

Cloudy:
I think I must have been in a different section of the help files, because the explination I read wasn't nearly as detailed as the one you pasted. I thank you for the clarification, along with the others who offered.

A very special thank you also, to CV who was so pleased with this thread, he came.

 

[lucky-E-leven]

A very special thank you also, to CV who was so pleased with this thread, he came.

You ROCK! Big hugs and a slap on the ass!

~lucky

...still laughing...