self-rating stories

[JLCC]

It is self-serving and narcissistic, I suppose, but is there a literotica policy on the author of a story assigning their rating to the same story?

I have done this and found later, perhaps after a sweep, that my own rating is removed.

Thanks

 

[RejectReality]

Laurel has said in the past that voting ( once ) on your own story is okay, and those votes aren't swept just because they're yours.

There have been a ton of sweeps in the last six months as the monthly contests were caught up, and those sweeps are bone-cutters. It's possible one of those caught your vote with friendly fire, or it's someone else's vote getting swept and you're mistaken.

 

[oggbashan]

A few years ago a man stood for election as an independent for a council seat.

He had NIL votes. Even his mother didn't vote for him.

Worse - he forgot to vote for himself!

 

[sr71plt]

Laurel has said in the past that voting ( once ) on your own story is okay, and those votes aren't swept just because they're yours.

I checked that out on a couple of stories. I don't really believe it. I think those votes were swept.

 

[RejectReality]

I don't know that I do either *laugh*

But, we only have the public information available to us, not database information. There's a degree of error in any experiment we try to do that can't be eliminated.

 

[SandraMustard]

Hasn't someone discovered a possible time-to-read measurement that validates voting? If you skip to last page and vote, your vote might get swept for that.

 

[sr71plt]

Hasn't someone discovered a possible time-to-read measurement that validates voting? If you skip to last page and vote, your vote might get swept for that.

I didn't. I gave it several minutes per page and waded through the whole story. I just think you can't vote for your own stories (and neither can anyone else in your house using the same provider path).

 

[JLCC]

Seems a little uncertain then. I know for instance that I did vote for a story and when I noted what appeared to be sweep activity, I thought I would check and the vote was gone. Not all of them, mind you, just a couple.

 

[legerdemer]

patting self on the back

For a long time I thought this was kind of nudnik thing to do, so I asked a bunch of writers in one of the past FAWCs, and essentially ALL of them said they do it. One common sentiment was that it was the author's way of showing that they believed in their own story and its quality. One person only said they don't always give themselves a 5. Which doesn't address the question of the votes making it through the sweeps.

 

[Bramblethorn]

Hasn't someone discovered a possible time-to-read measurement that validates voting? If you skip to last page and vote, your vote might get swept for that.

It's been discussed before as a "maybe they oughta" sort of thing, but I don't remember anybody posting evidence that it was actually happening.

I'd hope it wasn't; I think it'd be hard to implement without getting a lot of false positives: people who read fast, people who read offline then come back to the site just to vote, people who hated the first few pages and want to vote accordingly without having to slog through the rest of a 50-page epic. And it'd be easy for cheats to circumvent just by opening the story in a separate browser tab and leaving it to sit for a few minutes.

 

[RejectReality]

The "time on page" thing is another one that was brought up long, long ago. I think it was 2007, considering I just read it again recently while searching contest threads from that year. It explained a lot of things people ( including me ) had seen happening with their stories.

It's another of those things that seems likely from what we can tell, but there's no official word on it.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Laurel has said in the past that voting ( once ) on your own story is okay, and those votes aren't swept just because they're yours.

There have been a ton of sweeps in the last six months as the monthly contests were caught up, and those sweeps are bone-cutters. It's possible one of those caught your vote with friendly fire, or it's someone else's vote getting swept and you're mistaken.

None of my votes, yes I vote on my own stories - why not? - have been swept and it's been awhile since they were cast.

Back before I had a static IP I did notice that I could re-vote on stories when my IP address changed. Which was almost everytime I had to reboot my modem...damn AT&T you suck!

 

[sr71plt]

I forgot to mention that the biggest reason I think my votes, from my account, were swept is because the stars zeroed out. The same thing happened when I tried to vote from any of my computers without signing in to my account.

 

[RejectReality]

I forgot to mention that the biggest reason I think my votes, from my account, were swept is because the stars zeroed out. The same thing happened when I tried to vote from any of my computers without signing in to my account.

I don't want to say why, but things completely disconnected from the site can cause the stars to zero out while the vote remains. It's nothing you have to do intentionally, either.

So you can't necessarily use the stars as an indicator that your vote is or is not still there.

Saying what it is would help those lacking scruples cast double votes, though odds are they would still be caught by the sweeps. It can do damage to a story in the short term, though -- especially early on.

 

[sr71plt]

I don't want to say why, but things completely disconnected from the site can cause the stars to zero out while the vote remains. It's nothing you have to do intentionally, either.

So you can't necessarily use the stars as an indicator that your vote is or is not still there.

It was in combination with watching the sweeps. There are always excuses, I guess.

 

[RejectReality]

It was in combination with watching the sweeps. There are always excuses, I guess.

So, the stars were lit up, sweeps started running, and then when you came back to the story shortly thereafter, the stars were gone?

That sounds more like the vote being swept than what I'm talking about -- unless an automated task on your computer ran between the first viewing and second by coincidence.

 

[49greg]

A few years ago a man stood for election as an independent for a council seat.

He had NIL votes. Even his mother didn't vote for him.

Worse - he forgot to vote for himself!

In Missouri years ago a man running for governor or maybe senator, was defeated by a dead man. He was later made Attorney General for the USA. He was a bit quirky and covered up a statue of Lady Justice with a drapery to conceal the naked breast.

He must have been an uber prude, or so aroused he couldn't concentrate when exposed to a marble tit.

 

[robertreams]

How can you tell if votes have been swept or even how many votes you've gotten at what rating?

 

[sr71plt]

At least at the beginning, if you look frequently, you can tell what the next vote was. And you can certainly tell that your story has been swept if there are fewer votes registered for a story on your submission page chart then there were the last time you looked.

And, to respond to RR, yep.

 

[JKendallDane]

In Missouri years ago a man running for governor or maybe senator, was defeated by a dead man. He was later made Attorney General for the USA. He was a bit quirky and covered up a statue of Lady Justice with a drapery to conceal the naked breast.

He must have been an uber prude, or so aroused he couldn't concentrate when exposed to a marble tit.

John Ashcroft...just another one of Dubya's mistakes in 2001 that the entire country will forever be paying for. He was beaten for the Missouri Senate seat by a man that had been buried three weeks before the election.

He was also the douche bag that played such a big part in getting the Patriot Act wedged up our asses. And yeah, he did have some serious sexual repression issues that weren't just related to stone boobs.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

IS THE AH THE NEW POLITICS BOARD?

 

[oggbashan]

IS THE AH THE NEW POLITICS BOARD?

No. Why are you so concerned?

 

[Sammael Bard]

It is self-serving and narcissistic, I suppose, but is there a literotica policy on the author of a story assigning their rating to the same story?

I have done this and found later, perhaps after a sweep, that my own rating is removed.

Thanks

IMO, you can rate a story (any story, even yours) twice - once without logging in and once by logging in with your Lit user name.

> If you rate a story when you're logged into Lit, you can't vote more than once. That vote has been kind of "attached" to your username. Sort of Foolproof and this vote (usually) doesn't get swept by the system.

> If you rate a story when you're NOT logged into Lit, you still CANNOT vote more than once. But in certain cases, you can vote more than once. Some users use this unfair method to pump up their (or their favourite author's) submission's scores. This bypasses the "one reader, one vote" system here. I don't have any proof if the sweeps can catch it or not, but it's there.

This is the vote, I think, that gets swept by the system. No one knows how the sweep works, but I'd wager that your vote was swept "by mistake", and not because authors can't vote on their own submission.

/muddling

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Bard...the site does record your IP address when you do things here. Multiple votes with the same IP are certainly swept, leaving one per IP with anon as the user.

I don't know if it goes farther in that it looks at each vote and compares it with other IPs in the vote list, but I suspect that it does. Of course for those savvy users that know how to use a VPN, voting multiple times as anon, each from a different VPN, would slip by the sweep.

 

[Sammael Bard]

Bard...the site does record your IP address when you do things here. Multiple votes with the same IP are certainly swept, leaving one per IP with anon as the user.

I don't know if it goes farther in that it looks at each vote and compares it with other IPs in the vote list, but I suspect that it does. Of course for those savvy users that know how to use a VPN, voting multiple times as anon, each from a different VPN, would slip by the sweep.

I thought the website recorded your IP only when you posted a comment or sent feedbacks to Author. For security reasons, most probably. IMO, votes are linked to something other than IP, which I'm not willing to share for obvious reasons.

However, I don't claim a Phd. in these things, but I got it confirmed from a techie friend of mine. He may be wrong. You might be right. Who knows?