Valentine's Day Story Contest 2009 Reminder and Support Thread

[oggbashan]

And the winner of Last Place is...

The winner of the Authors' Hangout Valentine's Day Story Contest 2009 Last Place (tm) Contest is:

YoursSINSerely

With ratings of 2.1996 and 2.3576



The Runner-up is TE999 with 3.78

You can now add a suitably modest slogan to your signature to express the magnificence of your achievements.

Og

 

[YoursSINSerely]

The winner of the Authors' Hangout Valentine's Day Story Contest 2009 Last Place (tm) Contest is:

YoursSINSerely

With ratings of 2.1996 and 2.3576



The Runner-up is TE999 with 3.78

You can now add a suitably modest slogan to your signature to express the magnificence of your achievements.

Og

What a pleasant surprise to find out I've won "something". I'm so excited I'm going to celebrate by opening the bag of Crowne Royal. Cheers to me! Thanks for the title, Og.

Tomorrow, I get down and dirty for Earth Day preparations.

 

[DG Hear]

Congatulations Sin! on your first contest win.
DG

 

[Jack_Samuel]

the scoring on lit is so outrageous.

Its out of 5 so really the average story should be receiving 2.5 and a score of 3 or more should be celebrated.

AND yet 90% of the sites stories are ranked above 4 WTF?

 

[YoursSINSerely]

Congatulations Sin! on your first contest win.
DG

Tee hee hee. I think I should get an orange "O'" next to my story.

 

[TE999]

The winner of the Authors' Hangout Valentine's Day Story Contest 2009 Last Place (tm) Contest is:

YoursSINSerely

With ratings of 2.1996 and 2.3576



The Runner-up is TE999 with 3.78

You can now add a suitably modest slogan to your signature to express the magnificence of your achievements.

Og

Congrats Sin.

The trolls have spoken.

I'll take second place with head held high...and work dilgently on my Earth Day story.

 

[YoursSINSerely]

I'll take second place with head held high...and work dilgently on my Earth Day story. [/QUOTE]

TE, we are here to learn from the experts. I, for one, have a lot to learn!

The whole experience has been a lot of fun and I want to thank everyone for answering stupid questions along the way and giving me some advice for improvements.

 

[manyeyedhydra]

the scoring on lit is so outrageous.

Its out of 5 so really the average story should be receiving 2.5 and a score of 3 or more should be celebrated.

AND yet 90% of the sites stories are ranked above 4 WTF?

You forget the back-click skew.

For someone to vote on a story means they have to at least reach the end of it. Most of the time, if someone doesn't like the story, they'll back-click way before ever voting. So the scores are always going to be skewed towards 4 or 5.

 

[humminbean]

the scoring on lit is so outrageous.

Its out of 5 so really the average story should be receiving 2.5 and a score of 3 or more should be celebrated.

2.5 would be the middle of a 0 to 5 scale. This is a 1 to 5 scale, so 3 is the mid-point.

AND yet 90% of the sites stories are ranked above 4 WTF?

As someone else said, I usually just don't finish stories I don't like.