Story scores

[logophile]

Is there any way to look at your total score vote by vote? Is there a list anywhere that says

4
5
4
1
3
5

etc., so you can look at them overall? I'm just curious because (well, partly because I'm a little compulsive about these things) you could have two votes and total score of 4.0 but it could be the result of two votes of 4 or one 3 and one 5. Blah blah blah, I shouldn't drink vodka at the computer. Anyway, thanks for any info you might have!

 

[carsonshepherd]

Is there any way to look at your total score vote by vote? Is there a list anywhere that says

4
5
4
1
3
5

etc., so you can look at them overall? I'm just curious because (well, partly because I'm a little compulsive about these things) you could have two votes and total score of 4.0 but it could be the result of two votes of 4 or one 3 and one 5. Blah blah blah, I shouldn't drink vodka at the computer. Anyway, thanks for any info you might have!

My pain pills tell your vodka you should stop worrying about it.

 

[doormouse]

Re: Re: Story scores

My pain pills tell your vodka you should stop worrying about it.

*me thinks you should replace that bar in your AV with my boob in your mouth

 

[logophile]

Re: Re: Story scores

My pain pills tell your vodka you should stop worrying about it.

Easy for your pain pills to say! My vodka really really wants to know! Although, my vodka is also starting to feel like maybe we should just go have a little lay down...

 

[yui]

Is there any way to look at your total score vote by vote? Is there a list anywhere that says

4
5
4
1
3
5

etc., so you can look at them overall? I'm just curious because (well, partly because I'm a little compulsive about these things) you could have two votes and total score of 4.0 but it could be the result of two votes of 4 or one 3 and one 5. Blah blah blah, I shouldn't drink vodka at the computer. Anyway, thanks for any info you might have!

Hi logophile,

Does the "obsession (bordering on psychosis)" carry over to numbers? Just kidding. I don't think there is any way to look at your score vote by vote. But, some of the really bright people here can tell you all the possible combinations of votes that could equal your score. I can't...the Asian Math Gene skipped me.

Luck to you,

Yui

 

[logophile]

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Hi logophile,

Does the "obsession (bordering on psychosis)" carry over to numbers?

Yui

Yeah, I'm pretty sure it does...

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

...Does the "obsession (bordering on psychosis)" carry over to numbers? ...the Asian Math Gene skipped me. ..

Yeah, I'm pretty sure it does...

logophile,
According to Gregory's Girl 1981 directed by Bill Forsyth that kind of obsession should make you a boy!

Yui,
I never heard about Asian Math Jeans, but I flunked my only chance to fill out a Mermaid Algae Bra.

 

[Weird Harold]

Is there any way to look at your total score vote by vote?

No -- at least not for the authors; Laurel and Manu can (and do) review the individual votes to remove duplicates and other fraudulent votes.

If you are obsessive enough check your scores often enough to track the changes each individual votes make in the score, it's fairly simple to compute what each vote was -- (new score * New Vote total) - (old score * old vote total) = sum of votes cast.

 

[Boxlicker101]

I'm just curious because (well, partly because I'm a little compulsive about these things) you could have two votes and total score of 4.0 but it could be the result of two votes of 4 or one 3 and one 5. Blah blah blah, I shouldn't drink vodka at the computer. Anyway, thanks for any info you might have!

The management might have some way to track votes but I don't know of any. The only thing I could say is, once your story has posted, constantly check on the vote total and the average. You can determine what a new vote is as follows:

Say the first vote is a 4. the next time you look, there are two votes and the average is 4.5. You know the second vote was a 5 because:

4 X 1 = 4
4.5 X 2 = 9, a difference of 5 so you know the second vote was a 5.

After three votes, the average is 4.33. You know the third vote was a 4 because:

4.5 X 2 = 9
4.33 X 3 = 13, a difference of 4 so you know the third vote was was a 4.

After four votes, the average is 4.25. You know the fourth vote was a 4 because:

4.33 X 3 = 13
4.25 X 4 = 17, a difference of 4 so you know the fourth vote was a 4.

After five votes, the average is 3.60. You know some troll on-bombed you because:

4.25 X 4 = 17
3.60 X 5 = 18, a difference of 1 so you know the troll has struck.

After seven votes the average is 3.85
3.60 X 5 = 18
3.85 X 7 = 26.95, which rounds off to 29. You know you have received a 4 and a 5 because that's the only possible combination that can produce that result. If the average after seven votes had been 3.71:

3.71 X 7 = 25.97, a difference of 8 and you can't really tell whether it is a 5 and a 3 or two people each voting a 4. I think it's worth noting how a single one-bomb can screw up your average.

Actually, I don't think anybody can keep track of the voting pattern early like I have been demonstrating because the votes come in so fast, sometimes two or three almost simultaneously, and you can't really track them. After a few days, however, they come in slower and you can do this with the bigger numbers like so:

4.40 X 60 = 264
4.34 X 61 = 264.74 so you know you have been one-bombed again. Personally, I don't think it's worthwhile keeping track this closely and I don't except I have sometimes during a contest.

 

[wishfulthinking]

er, someone pass me the vodka... (hey BL)

 

[carsonshepherd]

Re: Re: Story scores

The management might have some way to track votes but I don't know of any. The only thing I could say is, once your story has posted, constantly check on the vote total and the average. You can determine what a new vote is as follows:

Say the first vote is a 4. the next time you look, there are two votes and the average is 4.5. You know the second vote was a 5 because:

4 X 1 = 4
4.5 X 2 + 9, a difference of 5 so you know the second vote was a 5.

After three votes, the average is 4.33. You know the third vote was a 4 because:

4.5 X 2 = 9
4.33 X 3 = 13, a difference of 4 so you know the third vote was was a 4.

After four votes, the average is 4.25. You know the fourth vote was a 4 because:

4.33 X 3 = 13
4.25 X 4 = 17, a difference of 4 so you know the fourth vote was a 4.

After five votes, the average is 3.60. You know some troll on-bombed you because:

4.25 X 4 = 17
3.60 X 5 = 18, a difference of 1 so you know the troll has struck.

After seven votes the average is 3.85
3.60 X 5 = 18
3.85 X 7 = 26.95, which rounds off to 29. You know you have received a 4 and a 5 because that's the only possible combination that can produce that result. If the average after seven votes had been 3.71:

3.71 X 7 = 25.97, a difference of 8 and you can't really tell whether it is a 5 and a 3 or two people each voting a 4. I think it's worth noting how a single one-bomb can screw up your average.

Actually, I don't think anybody can keep track of the voting pattern early like I have been demonstrating because the votes come in so fast, sometimes two or three almost simultaneously, and you can't really track them. After a few days, however, they come in slower and you can do this with the bigger numbers like so:

4.40 X 60 = 264
4.34 X 61 = 264.74 so you know you have been one-bombed again. Personally, I don't think it's worthwhile keeping track this closely and I don't except I have sometimes during a contest.

Oh my God!!!

This is like... math... school... learning.... Help...

 

[Guest]

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Oh my God!!!

This is like... math... school... learning.... Help...

LOL
thank god, someone besides me got dizzy with that.
just finished calculus and i swear by all that is holy or un
i will fight to scourage math from my tiny grey cells

 

[logophile]

logophile,
According to Gregory's Girl 1981 directed by Bill Forsyth that kind of obsession should make you a boy!

No, not a boy. But I am a Scorpio. We're often accused of wishing we were men. Hmm... We're also accused of being a little compulsive. I wonder why...

Thanks Boxlicker for the formulas. I was just feeling I'd like to take a look and see if there's an overall voting. There's no way I could do all that though. My head would explode (and not in a good way - wait, is there a good way for your head to explode?).

 

[carsonshepherd]

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just finished calculus and i swear by all that is holy or un
i will fight to scourage math from my tiny grey cells

If you're anything like me, it's already gone forever! I'm serious... if it wasn't for baking I wouldn't even know how to do fractions.

 

[Guest]

We all need a mini-Lauren implant for our brains. She is a whizz with this stuff. I always lose track after about 20 votes.

Lou

 

[carsonshepherd]

Okay, here's a challenge for Bionic Lauren Brain: My story hit 4.85 last night with 59 votes.... and then the 60th vote sent it down to 4.83. Was I 1-bombed? do I need to PM Laurel again? Somebody help a poor li'l math-challenged farm boy!

 

[CharleyH]

Okay, here's a challenge for Bionic Lauren Brain: My story hit 4.85 last night with 59 votes.... and then the 60th vote sent it down to 4.83. Was I 1-bombed? do I need to PM Laurel again? Somebody help a poor li'l math-challenged farm boy!

Oh you are so in trouble now boy! LOL SHE HAS CHARTS!

 

[Lisa Denton]

My lil brain is hurtin but I think its:

4.85 X 59 =
4.83 X 60 =
Difference =

I tink thats how ya do it.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

Okay, here's a challenge for Bionic Lauren Brain: My story hit 4.85 last night with 59 votes.... and then the 60th vote sent it down to 4.83. Was I 1-bombed? do I need to PM Laurel again? Somebody help a poor li'l math-challenged farm boy!

It was a 4.

 

[carsonshepherd]

It was a 4.

I love you. You sexy thing.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

Come on, give me a real challenge.

 

[carsonshepherd]

Come on, give me a real challenge.

That WAS a real challenge for me. I live a simple life. In which there is no math.

 

[Guest]

It was a 4.

I knew you'd be right here.

Hey, check out my Christmas present to you in the "If you were Santa" thread.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

I thought I was weird in figuring out how many farts it would take to equal the energy of an atomic bomb, but you guys take the cake.

You must think your stories are being evaluated by Lionel fucking Trilling or something.

---dr.M.

 

[Guest]

I thought I was weird in figuring out how many farts it would take to equal the energy of an atomic bomb, but you guys take the cake.

You must think your stories are being evaluated by Lionel fucking Trilling or something.

---dr.M.