Now I know how Kerry Must have felt.

[sincerely_helene]

What's the deal with the voting system here?

A story of mine which was recently promoted by Dranoel has recieved several very positive feedbacks, along with some pretty decent ratings (thanks for that by the way, Litzens .)

Anyway, a couple days ago I went into my control panel and found that the story had dropped even lower than before Dran had pitched it, with not a great deal more showing in the number of readers. Even if someone (or even two people for that matter) had 1 bombed me, the math just isn't working out in comparison with the high ratings I recieved in the comments.

This sound familiar to anyone?

 

[R. Richard]

Laurel makes sweeps of the stories and votes. The object is to remove troll bombs. The process is apparently fairly complicated. Sometimes non-troll votes are also removed.

As to the count of views, that updates slowly and it may be way behind.

 

[sincerely_helene]

Laurel makes sweeps of the stories and votes. The object is to remove troll bombs. The process is apparently fairly complicated. Sometimes non-troll votes are also removed.

As to the count of views, that updates slowly and it may be way behind.

Ahh, I see. Thanks for that bit of clarification, R. Richard.

 

[lil_elvis]

What's the deal with the voting system here?

A story of mine which was recently promoted by Dranoel has recieved several very positive feedbacks, along with some pretty decent ratings (thanks for that by the way, Litzens .)

Anyway, a couple days ago I went into my control panel and found that the story had dropped even lower than before Dran had pitched it, with not a great deal more showing in the number of readers. Even if someone (or even two people for that matter) had 1 bombed me, the math just isn't working out in comparison with the high ratings I recieved in the comments.

This sound familiar to anyone?

All too familiar.

Tomorrow, when I'm sober and can string some thoughts together, I'll give it a look.

 

[Guest]

Sorry to cause a troll attack, Helene.

Let Laurel know and I'm sure she'll investigate it.

 

[JamesSD]

The only other thing to keep in mind is that people often only comment when they love a story or hate it passionately. So a story can have a couple glowing comments but a so-so score.
So yeah, probably a bit of trolling at work. Unfortunately I've learned that sometimes more exposure for a story means more 4 votes. That and stories that are very highly rated tend to average down a little over time, especially if it is near the top of a rating page. This can be trolling, but it also can just be more people reading it, saying "well that wasn't that great" and giving it a 4.

 

[sincerely_helene]

Sorry to cause a troll attack, Helene.

Let Laurel know and I'm sure she'll investigate it.

No need to apologize, Dranoel. I so appreciated your promotion more than words can say .

Normally I don't even concern myself with scores at all, but I suspected in this case that maybe it was more of a technical issue than a troll one due to the number pattern. That was the only reason I asked if anyone else had noticed anything odd lately.

Lil Elvis and James: Thanks also for your comments.