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[ShyChiWriter]

That curious feeling when one of your stories has disappeared from the Toplists... which means it isn't a target, so the score just keeps going up.

 

[ElectricBlue]

That curious feeling when one of your stories has disappeared from the Toplists... which means it isn't a target, so the score just keeps going up.

Or now that you've highlighted it, to see it take the slippery slide down .

 

[ShyChiWriter]

Or now that you've highlighted it, to see it take the slippery slide down .

I know! I so debated posting this, but then I realized that... my life won't end if the scores change

 

[ElectricBlue]

I know! I so debated posting this, but then I realized that... my life won't end if the scores change

But you will make some sad fellow very happy, when he can look at the score and say to the empty bedroom, "Gee, look. I did that."

Look upon it as an act of charity .

 

[Hypoxia]

I've never been there so I can't say. Is it lonely at the top?

 

[ShyChiWriter]

I've never been there so I can't say. Is it lonely at the top?

HOnestly, Hypoxia. It sucks at the top. You have 1 day of joy when you reach the first page, and then the 1-bombers descend like lamprey, sucking off your score.

 

[LexxRuthless]

HOnestly, Hypoxia. It sucks at the top. You have 1 day of joy when you reach the first page, and then the 1-bombers descend like lamprey, sucking off your score.

I wish I got a whole day. The last time I had a story leap to the top of the I/T Hall of Fame, it lasted all of a half hour. When the page refreshed, Daddy's New Girlfriend had a 4.87 rating with 124 votes.

I waited 15 minutes and refreshed my Works page. The story got 17 votes (on 15 new views; not sure how they managed that) and the score dropped all the way to 4.47.

 

[ChloeTzang]

HOnestly, Hypoxia. It sucks at the top. You have 1 day of joy when you reach the first page, and then the 1-bombers descend like lamprey, sucking off your score.

Been there, done that. It’s an unfortunate fact of life on Literotica that there are some who enjoy doing shit like that. I shrug now - if it’s another author doing it, well, they’re not good enough to rely on their writing alone are they? If it’s a troll, you have to wonder at the sad state of their mind. Doesn’t matter, your readers will find you and your stories will rise... it just takes time.

 

[bushyTrail]

I wish I got a whole day. The last time I had a story leap to the top of the I/T Hall of Fame, it lasted all of a half hour. When the page refreshed, Daddy's New Girlfriend had a 4.87 rating with 124 votes.

I waited 15 minutes and refreshed my Works page. The story got 17 votes (on 15 new views; not sure how they managed that) and the score dropped all the way to 4.47.

Let me cheer you up: not everyone of those 17 voted 1. At least 3 of them have voted more than 1.

Cruel jokes apart, this is just sad, but I guess it is just part of the bigger phenomenon of haters in the web. Cheap thrills...

 

[SimonDoom]

The advantage of following views, not scores, is they can bomb the hell out of your scores but they can't take away your views. They just keep going up.

I think I've only had one story that was number 1 on the 30-day score-based toplist, and I wasn't even aware of it at the time and didn't find out until it was nominated for the annual top story contest six months later, something that doesn't even exist anymore.

 

[Sonatatre]

I am glad I am not the only one that experience this. It was fun to see the story temporarly be herald as one of the best stories ever written, Only to get bombed down a bit. I think I was lucky that the story was in a less popular category meaning that the 1 bombs were not as many and the score could at least be decent moving forward.

It seems like the stories that are good enough to manage to stay in the top ten without getting bombed down, gain a ton of benefits. Must be awesome

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Basic crab-bucket for some, mindless trolling for others. Meh.

 

[Hypoxia]

Nope, I've never been toplisted. But when readers say my stories are the best they've ever read, and demand the novelizations, I feel good.

 

[RejectReality]

It's also creating a buffer of new votes, making further bombs have less of an impact.

So if the score creeps up high enough to make that toplist again ( or a sweep puts it back there ) then the trolls will have to work harder to knock it back down. They'll also likely have to resort to less stealthy methods to do so, increasing the probability that their work will get wiped out the next time a sweep runs.

That time spent in the trenches eventually wins the war.

That curious feeling when one of your stories has disappeared from the Toplists... which means it isn't a target, so the score just keeps going up.

 

[member9458]

HOnestly, Hypoxia. It sucks at the top. You have 1 day of joy when you reach the first page, and then the 1-bombers descend like lamprey, sucking off your score.

Best way to deal with this is to adjust your perspective. If somebody's so hell-bent on pushing your story off the first page it's helpful to think that it's because you provoked an extremely intense reaction.

It might not be the truth; maybe this person is fanboying hard for a "rival" author. Maybe they just don't like your face, so to speak. And on a personal level, you also don't want to get too big an ego and start thinking you can't do any better. Still, nobody spends multiple days trying to pull down your score because they were bored. If you're pissing somebody off that much, you might be doing something right.

 

[Vix_Giovanni]

I know! I so debated posting this, but then I realized that... my life won't end if the scores change

I hear ya. I stayed away for months because another writer sent me the link to show me that Ch. 04 of my story “The Lamentations Of Psyche” was the No. 1 story of the past twelve months on Literotica. For whatever reason, it resonated with straight 5.00s since late February. You would think being “No. 1” would make me feel like Lil NasX; instead, I was paranoid, and waiting anxiously for the day that someone would finally vote it down. Rationally, I knew that the score changing wouldn’t affect my life or writing (and, Psyche ch. 04 isn’t even my best work!) but I was literally avoiding the score.

Thankfully, Psyche ch 04 is now 4.90, at least since August 29th. It’s freeing! And I’ve turned off votes to avoid further nonsensical emotional responses on my part to these baseless numbers.

 

[ThisNameIsntTakenYet]

I hear ya. I stayed away for months because another writer sent me the link to show me that Ch. 04 of my story “The Lamentations Of Psyche” was the No. 1 story of the past twelve months on Literotica. For whatever reason, it resonated with straight 5.00s since late February. You would think being “No. 1” would make me feel like Lil NasX; instead, I was paranoid, and waiting anxiously for the day that someone would finally vote it down. Rationally, I knew that the score changing wouldn’t affect my life or writing (and, Psyche ch. 04 isn’t even my best work!) but I was literally avoiding the score.

Thankfully, Psyche ch 04 is now 4.90, at least since August 29th. It’s freeing! And I’ve turned off votes to avoid further nonsensical emotional responses on my part to these baseless numbers.

I had a similar reaction when my first story did way better than I expected. Not straight 5s of course, but I did feel like it scored higher than it deserved, perhaps. Or that maybe I had just lucked out by writing something better than average. It did put some pressure on me to reach that level of quality or reader enjoyment again, but I eventually got over that, realizing that it's just a number after all. That and a friendly anonymous user 1-bombed my story until it was out of Hot territory after I complained about the pressure of having such a high score, which helped a bit too I guess. It showed me I wouldn't die just because the little red H was gone.