The Author's Hangout Valentine's Day 2012 Support Thread

[PennLady]

There's still time left!

Remember, this is the official support thread. Accept no imitations.

 

[scouries]

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That's more like it!!!!! A first step anyyway.

A THREADMISTRESS finally taking back control of her thread. Maybe she won't turn out to be another oggie after all.

And maybe she won't let the dumb texan and all push her around...

Here's hoping...​

 

[TxRad]

If you're seeing the message above, now would be a good time to dramatically improve your Literotica experience.

http://forum.literotica.com/profile.php?do=addlist&userlist=ignore&u=499694

http://forum.literotica.com/profile.php?do=addlist&userlist=ignore&u=1343447

Clicking those two links and "saving changes" after each will remove this troll, his ego threads, misinformation, bandwidth-stealing images, and annoying giant-font posts from sight.

Yeah, I'm the Dumb Texan, he's ranting about. I keep reminding people his contest is a fake and his lists and awards are only for his own self-promotion. He hates the truth so he hates me.

Take Dark's advise and uses the ignore list. You'll enjoy Lit and the contest more.

 

[Darkniciad]

Got caught up in fixing some webpages to properly validate under xhtml strict and almost forgot to run the track tonight

Four new stories brings us up to 36, and we added one more category today as well.

The average score is now 4.31 with a median of 4.32.

The average vote total is 240 with a median of 176 and a total of 7678.

The average views total is 12,816 with a median of 8,876 and a total of 410,115.

The average favorites are 7 with a median of 4 and a total of 208.

The average PCs are 10 with a median of 6 and a total of 335.

( Keep in mind that I'm only updating Views, Favs, and PCs on the new stories each day. Those numbers will jump quite a bit the first time I do a full check of those stats on all stories )

 

[DG Hear]

Got caught up in fixing some webpages to properly validate under xhtml strict and almost forgot to run the track tonight

Four new stories brings us up to 36, and we added one more category today as well.

The average score is now 4.31 with a median of 4.32.

The average vote total is 240 with a median of 176 and a total of 7678.

The average views total is 12,816 with a median of 8,876 and a total of 410,115.

The average favorites are 7 with a median of 4 and a total of 208.

The average PCs are 10 with a median of 6 and a total of 335.

( Keep in mind that I'm only updating Views, Favs, and PCs on the new stories each day. Those numbers will jump quite a bit the first time I do a full check of those stats on all stories )

Dark how do you figure the median vs. the average? Also when you say new stories, are you saying just the ones posted on that particular day? I find it all quite interesting.
Thanks
DG

 

[Darkniciad]

New stories are those that have posted since I tracked the day before.

Although, when I'm talking about which stories I'm updating views, PCs, and favs for, that would be the stories that were "new" on yesterday's track. It takes about 24 hour for most data you can gather to be useful. The exceptions are PCs and Favs, which seem to update on a near real-time basis.

The average and median are simple. The spreadsheet calculates it for me.

Average is all entries for a stat added together, then divided by the number of stories.

Median is the "middle number" of the statistic I'm calculating. Using score as an example, it means that there are exactly as many scores that are higher than the median as there are scores lower than the median.

 

[DG Hear]

New stories are those that have posted since I tracked the day before.

Although, when I'm talking about which stories I'm updating views, PCs, and favs for, that would be the stories that were "new" on yesterday's track. It takes about 24 hour for most data you can gather to be useful. The exceptions are PCs and Favs, which seem to update on a near real-time basis.

The average and median are simple. The spreadsheet calculates it for me.

Average is all entries for a stat added together, then divided by the number of stories.

Median is the "middle number" of the statistic I'm calculating. Using score as an example, it means that there are exactly as many scores that are higher than the median as there are scores lower than the median.

Thanks Dark! It's interesting. Needless to say my stories are all over the place. One is actually at the Average or median.
With respect
DG

 

[estragon]

Where is the Hoover?

Am I wrong, or is the Hoover due in the next three days? Or is the Hoover really random?

 

[estragon]

There's still time left!

Remember, this is the official support thread. Accept no imitations.

I hope SA PennLady, Threadmistress extraordinare, is working on an entry. I guess LunaEroticaMystica, NT, is, unhappily, on the Disabled List. Hope to see her back posting soon.

 

[Darkniciad]

There's no telling when the Hoover will come around. I wouldn't even count on the sort-of-usual patterns to apply right now, considering how slow everything on the site is getting done.

I have to assume there's vacation, major off-Lit life things, or system upgrades going on to slow things down as much as they have been.

 

[PennLady]

I hope SA PennLady, Threadmistress extraordinare, is working on an entry. I guess LunaEroticaMystica, NT, is, unhappily, on the Disabled List. Hope to see her back posting soon.

Thanks, kind sir. I had hoped to have an entry done, and wrote something, but my beta reader pointed out some basic issues and I simply haven't had time to fix it up. So I will have to pass this time. Writing time seems to just be impossible to come by these days.

 

[Darkniciad]

I'm fiddling with three different stories, but I'm in a motivation slump. At least been staying busy working on my website, which is at least related to my writing.

Completely xhtml strict compliant now That's been bugging me for a while. I didn't know squat about css or xhtml when I started the revamp. There were a lot of learning mistakes to clean up.

 

[sagethorns]

Did you submit your story yesterday, or did it take a day or two?

The lag was 30 hours or so. (I was a little eager to see it posted )

 

[carlieplum]

Seems like posting is speeding up

Mine took three days to go up (on 1/25), so it seems like maybe the backlog is unlogging...

 

[Darkniciad]

Here's tonight's track:

3 new stories bring us up to 39

The average score is now 4.28 with a median of 4.30

The average votes are 243 with a median of 162 and a total of 8470

The average views are 12,804 with a median of 8,876 and a total of 460,958

The average favs are 6 with a median of 4 and a total of 223

The average PCs are 10 with a median of 6 and a total of 360

Caught an error where my finger slipped on the vote column yesterday. Fixed in the track, but I'm not editing yesterday's post. Here's hoping I didn't fumble finger anything tonight.

 

[BuckyDuckman]

Thanks Dark! It's interesting. Needless to say my stories are all over the place. One is actually at the Average or median.
With respect
DG

For those who need the math help...

It maybe worth noting the differences between "mean" and "median." In Dark's fine calculations, it's safe to say by "average," he means "mean." (The word "mean," in a mathematical sense, has a more precise meaning than the word "average.")

Median means "middle" score. So, if the scores are like this:

1, 1, 1, 2, 3, 3, 4, 5, 5, then the median score is 3, because that's right in the middle.

In this same example, the "mean" (what most people think of as average) score would be: 2.77.

Here's why "mean" and "median" are important to compare. When the two disagree is a big way, it means something is skewing the numbers.

For example, when Dark reports

The average views are 12,804 with a median of 8,876 and a total of 460,958

That means there are either a few stories above 12,804 with substantial views OR quite a few stories with substantially fewer than 8,876.

So what's this mean to the typical viewer of the numbers? Here's a simple way to think about it. IF your vote, score, views, favs or PCs are above the median - it means you're in the top 50%

How far into the top 50% are you? That's where you want to compare your information to the average.

For example, if views are listed like this:

The average views are 12,804 with a median of 8,876 and a total of 460,958

and YOUR number of views are 48,616 - then you know you're screwing up the curve for everyone else.

So what's that mean? Probably that posted to a more popular section of Literotica, that's all.

Don't lose heart, because a story that hasn't been posted for long hasn't had a chance to gain as many views as a story that's been up for a while. As others have pointed out, story views tend to level off the longer a story has been up.

I'm sure there's someone else who can explain this better. My college Statistics class was 30 years ago, but hopefully this helps?

 

[Boxlicker101]

Okay, I have one week to get my two stories finished, edited and posted, I'd better get busy.

 

[Angellica1612]

For those who need the math help...

It maybe worth noting the differences between "mean" and "median." In Dark's fine calculations, it's safe to say by "average," he means "mean." (The word "mean," in a mathematical sense, has a more precise meaning than the word "average.")

Median means "middle" score. So, if the scores are like this:

1, 1, 1, 2, 3, 3, 4, 5, 5, then the median score is 3, because that's right in the middle.

In this same example, the "mean" (what most people think of as average) score would be: 2.77.

Here's why "mean" and "median" are important to compare. When the two disagree is a big way, it means something is skewing the numbers.

For example, when Dark reports That means there are either a few stories above 12,804 with substantial views OR quite a few stories with substantially fewer than 8,876.

So what's this mean to the typical viewer of the numbers? Here's a simple way to think about it. IF your vote, score, views, favs or PCs are above the median - it means you're in the top 50%

How far into the top 50% are you? That's where you want to compare your information to the average.

For example, if views are listed like this: and YOUR number of views are 48,616 - then you know you're screwing up the curve for everyone else.

So what's that mean? Probably that posted to a more popular section of Literotica, that's all.

Don't lose heart, because a story that hasn't been posted for long hasn't had a chance to gain as many views as a story that's been up for a while. As others have pointed out, story views tend to level off the longer a story has been up.

I'm sure there's someone else who can explain this better. My college Statistics class was 30 years ago, but hopefully this helps?

Thanks, Bucky, I found it quite helpful. I still wouldn't be able to explain it to someone else, but at least I have a better understanding now.

 

[Angellica1612]

Okay, I have one week to get my two stories finished, edited and posted, I'd better get busy.

:caning: Cracking the whip...hope it wasn't too hard.

 

[Boxlicker101]

:caning: Cracking the whip...hope it wasn't too hard.

Oh, great. Now I won't be able to sit in front of my keyboard. I'll have to type standing up while my muse is laughing at me.

 

[TxRad]

Oh, great. Now I won't be able to sit in front of my keyboard. I'll have to type standing up while my muse is laughing at me.

And this is new, how?

Muses are just that way.

 

[estragon]

Thanks, kind sir. I had hoped to have an entry done, and wrote something, but my beta reader pointed out some basic issues and I simply haven't had time to fix it up. So I will have to pass this time. Writing time seems to just be impossible to come by these days.

SA PennLady, sorry to hear that. I was looking forward to seeing you and LunaEroticaMystica, NT, in the stretch drive. Thanks for keeping this thread going despite all the demands of RL.

In any event, best of luck to all contestants.

 

[PennLady]

SA PennLady, sorry to hear that. I was looking forward to seeing you and LunaEroticaMystica, NT, in the stretch drive. Thanks for keeping this thread going despite all the demands of RL.

In any event, best of luck to all contestants.

I suppose it's not impossible (I forget when the submission deadline is) but it's way up on the highly-unlikely list. The thing is, as it stands, I could probably smooth it out and submit it and some would like it, but after input from my beta reader, I agree it's not up to the standards I want, so I won't post it. but perhaps I can fix it up for next year.

I have to admit that others, like TxRad have been doing more than I have to keep the thread going, but I do check in even if I don't say much.

 

[HeyAll]

The deadline is next Sunday, but if I remember correctly from the previous thread, the admin will still let you submit a contest story one or two days after the deadline. Best of luck.

 

[PennLady]

The deadline is next Sunday, but if I remember correctly from the previous thread, the admin will still let you submit a contest story one or two days after the deadline. Best of luck.

Thanks. It's still pretty unlikely, as I said. Writing time seems impossible to come by, and when I get it, I really need to work on my WIP (Rhythm & the Blue Line). Although sometimes those little stories grab and won't let go, and the change of pace can be helpful.