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A modest suggestion
Almost all of the other posters to this thread are award winning authors, so I thought I'd add a little perspective. One of my stories, Lawn Mowing Torture, has a score of 2.52 with 21 votes, and another, Just Rewards, has a score of 2.41 with 17 votes (as I'm writing this).
I'm pretty sure that the votes are a reflection of the stories I've chosen to tell, rather than a lack of writing ability. 38 people disliked my stories enough to score them low, so I'm sure it's no campaign or fluke.
Yes, it hurts to have a story you spend so much time writing, rewriting, and editing get such a low score. It hurts to have so many people not just ignore, but reject your story. I try to remember that the votes are a judgement of the story and not a reflection on me.
I have a modest suggestion. Right now the stories are listed in alphabetical order within a category. Human nature suggests that many more people will read "A Night to Remember" than "Voluptuous Vixens" (I'm making these titles up). That's why all of the escort servies are listed in the yellow pages as "A A ..."
My suggestion is that that the stories should be listed in score order. The ones with less than ten votes would be first, then the worst to best stories. This would give the low scored stories more exposure, and perhaps help to move their scores up. It would also be a lot harder to score a story down, as you'd have to scroll all the way to the end of the list each time you wanted to vote.
Almost all of the other posters to this thread are award winning authors, so I thought I'd add a little perspective. One of my stories, Lawn Mowing Torture, has a score of 2.52 with 21 votes, and another, Just Rewards, has a score of 2.41 with 17 votes (as I'm writing this).
I'm pretty sure that the votes are a reflection of the stories I've chosen to tell, rather than a lack of writing ability. 38 people disliked my stories enough to score them low, so I'm sure it's no campaign or fluke.
Yes, it hurts to have a story you spend so much time writing, rewriting, and editing get such a low score. It hurts to have so many people not just ignore, but reject your story. I try to remember that the votes are a judgement of the story and not a reflection on me.
I have a modest suggestion. Right now the stories are listed in alphabetical order within a category. Human nature suggests that many more people will read "A Night to Remember" than "Voluptuous Vixens" (I'm making these titles up). That's why all of the escort servies are listed in the yellow pages as "A A ..."
My suggestion is that that the stories should be listed in score order. The ones with less than ten votes would be first, then the worst to best stories. This would give the low scored stories more exposure, and perhaps help to move their scores up. It would also be a lot harder to score a story down, as you'd have to scroll all the way to the end of the list each time you wanted to vote.
