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[Kelliezgirl]

I haven't thought about this before, but this is worth thinking about. Why should your chapter 1 of a 30 chapter story be able to appear on a toplist. Finish the thing and when it's done you're eligible.

From the standpoint of the reader, this makes some sense.

Why discourage a long running series?
Home for Horny Monstergirls Chapter 136 got 27k views... while the fact that the series basically owns the non-human top list is annoying, it shouldn't be excluded because the author is still writing.

 

[SimonDoom]

Why discourage a long running series?
Home for Horny Monstergirls Chapter 136 got 27k views... while the fact that the series basically owns the non-human top list is annoying, it shouldn't be excluded because the author is still writing.

Fair point.

We're spitballing. I'm not sure what the right answer is, although I think the current way that multi-chaptered stories are handled on toplists makes no sense at all.

 

[Kelliezgirl]

Fair point.

We're spitballing. I'm not sure what the right answer is, although I think the current way that multi-chaptered stories are handled on toplists makes no sense at all.

I'd just like to see them treated as a single story, with their average score.
Is it perfect? Nope. But we're never all going to agree on perfect.
And it would be a massive improvement over what we have now.

 

[BobbyBrandt]

Why discourage a long running series?
Home for Horny Monstergirls Chapter 136 got 27k views... while the fact that the series basically owns the non-human top list is annoying, it shouldn't be excluded because the author is still writing.

Because there is no guarantee that the story will ever be finished.

Why not allow any story that receives a five rating as its first score to earn a red H? Why not let chapters or parts be entered into contests?

There are eligibility rules for many things on this site that we all have to deal with. Personally, I don't think that a story being completely finished in order to be eligible for a top list is a bad thing. It's an incentive to keep writing and to finish what you started.

 

[Kelliezgirl]

Because there is no guarantee that the story will ever be finished.

Why not allow any story that receives a five rating as its first score to earn a red H? Why not let chapters or parts be entered into contests?

There are eligibility rules for many things on this site that we all have to deal with. Personally, I don't think that a story being completely finished in order to be eligible for a top list is a bad thing. It's an incentive to keep writing and to finish what you started.

Should we not let a TV series win an Emmy until after the final episode? It's not "finished"?

I get that some people are really bothered by an unfinished series, but its obvious that many aren't.

 

[BobbyBrandt]

Should we not let a TV series win an Emmy until after the final episode? It's not "finished"?

I get that some people are really bothered by an unfinished series, but its obvious that many aren't.

By all means, give a single episode a red H (their Emmy). That doesn't make it or the series the "best of all time" as implied by a top list standing.

It's not a matter of being bothered, its a matter of attempting to find parity in the work produced and equity in how that work is recognized.

To me, it's equivalent to awarding a restaurant a Michelin star because the dressing on their salad was excellent. Give us the whole meal to judge before being eligible for that recognition.

I will add that the confusion on Literotica caused by treating an episodic series the same as a serialized chapter story will remain a factor in distinguishing what would be eligible and what wouldn't. As @SimonDoom said, we're all just spitballing here.

 

[Kelliezgirl]

By all means, give a single episode a red H (their Emmy). That doesn't make it or the series the "best of all time" as implied by a top list standing.

It's not a matter of being bothered, its a matter of attempting to find parity in the work produced and equity in how that work is recognized.

To me, it's equivalent to awarding a restaurant a Michelin star because the dressing on their salad was excellent. Give us the whole meal to judge before being eligible for that recognition.

I will add that the confusion on Literotica caused by treating an episodic series the same as a serialized chapter story will remain a factor in distinguishing what would be eligible and what wouldn't. As @SimonDoom said, we're all just spitballing here.

I think using an average rating for the series so far makes it something different than your Michelin Star for salad example.

We're rating what we've seen, and people like it..

But yeah... just spit balling...

 

[THBGato]

Mmmm, but as has been said some series are basically standalone stories with reoccurring characters and setting, much like most episodes of, say, House or CSI. And, occasionally, one of those episodes is brilliant and a cut above the rest - surely it deserves recognition in its own right?
There's a couple of series I can see on the Lesbian toplist that are like that.

True, there are others that are one story arc but run to 20+ chapters, but I don't get the sense writers are doing that cynically. And if they published as one submission we'd be talking about 300,000 word plus pieces...