voting on your own work

[Rustyoznail]

Well, whenever one of my stories posts, I always go to my page, clit on it, and then carefully proof it online. So, I actually read it. Then I vote for it. I've mentioned that I believe in voting for yourself above, and the online proof reading helps too. I have caught more than one error that's led to my doing a rewrite and a submitted edit.

You obviously don’t proof your posts.

I usually vote, particularly for competition stories. Mainly because I’m nervous I won’t get the required 25 votes.

 

[PennameWombat]

Well, whenever one of my stories posts, I always go to my page, clit on it, and then carefully proof it online.

You Dog you. Boasting about how easily you can find it!

 

[MillieDynamite]

I either voted the stories I voted on with ones not fives or someone hit me with ones at the same time I voted. Both the stories I voted on drop below 4.5 on my vote. 4.43 / 47 on one, and 4.49 / 74 on the other. And no, I don't remember what the count was before I voted.

 

[SimonDoom]

Among my 41 stories, I've probably voted on my own story 2 or 3 times. And in every case I think it was when the story was right on the 4.5 cusp. I wanted to push it over the red H border.

I see nothing wrong with it, if you want to do it. I don't usually do it because I want the score to reflect what others think of my story. But if you want to do it, do it.

My attitude is, feel free to use whatever tools this Site gives you to advance your success and creativity.

 

[LAHomedog]

You Dog you. Boasting about how easily you can find it!

<---- Wagging tail. Doesn't your page tell you when your story is posting?

 

[ElectricBlue]

It always seems odd to me that a story with nine 5s doesn't get a red H, but adding a one-star vote will give it that H.

One of the few anomalies where a one-bomb can get you over the bar - and where an author's five can counter the one-bomb given earlier, which is the main reason I self-vote, to counter the 'tards.

 

[ElectricBlue]

You obviously don’t proof your posts.

I usually vote, particularly for competition stories. Mainly because I’m nervous I won’t get the required 25 votes.

I dunno. It had a kind of Freudian nicety about it

 

[Kumquatqueen]

Just how do you do that?

I imagine any protruding part of the body can provide appropriate haptic feedback...

I do vote on my stories given I have the option right there and I don't want to leave those stars empty. My stories don't get many voters - even in contests I've ended up with only 26 votes, barely qualifying.

I've had one chapter on a perfect 5 for over a year. Still needs two more votes for a red H. Perfect proof that most readers go by tagline and don't read all chapters of long stories in order.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

I always vote on my own story. Why not? It is your right under the rules.

If I was running for office I'd go into the voting booth and vote for myself. If I was up for an award where there was voting allowed and I was allowed to vote, I'd vote for myself.

If I post a story it is because I believe in it. So I vote for it.

My logic, my feelings.

It's not like it's going to change anything massively anyway.

 

[LargoKitt]

Tilt

People usually don't vote on artwork. Don't know why, but there it is. So I have a pic up Bottom
https://literotica.com/i/bottom-2
which currently has a 4.78 rating from nine votes. Ten votes and it would get a 'hot' rating. I tried adding that tenth vote as Anonymous and zip, nada. So I don't know what's up with that unless Literotica reads the ISP address and matches it to member ISPs.

My stories get many votes and have gone up and down. Some seem to have lost their H, which seems unfair. Once hot, always hot? OTOH, I used to be hot, or so some said and now ... not so much. Also, popularity is neither literary merit or ability to get the reader to launch.

And what's with this 'one bombing'? Buncha snarky little boys kicking over your sand castle? "Ha har har, look whut I did."

 

[Agiel]

And what's with this 'one bombing'? Buncha snarky little boys kicking over your sand castle? "Ha har har, look whut I did."

Hit the nail on the head with that comment. Sexist but true lol.

 

[Comshaw]

First, I've never voted on my writing, not here, not anywhere. Especially not if it is in a contest.

With that said, it seems here we have the option to do so.

Does anyone know, if you vote on your own story, does it count? If you vote on your own story, why do you do so? One vote in the larger scheme of things carries little weight. If you don't vote for your own work, why do so?

I do not vote for my own work. I'll admit this, just this one time, I'm biased toward my own work. At first, no matter how good or bad it is, I think its the best story since Shakespeare! And of course, it isn't! Often it is, fair to middlin, which is mediocre at best. Some of my stories, I admit, I think are pretty good. But, I'm not without the rose colored glasses when I read my own work.

Occasionally, I read something after a long period of time and my reaction is either, WOW I wrote that, or Holy shit on a cracker, I'm the one to blame for that one.

That ↑

I know how I feel about my stories. And my single vote wouldn't do a damn thing to jack up the vote even if I wanted it to. So I don't.

Comshaw

 

[windar]

I always vote on my own story. Why not? It is your right under the rules.

If I was running for office I'd go into the voting booth and vote for myself. If I was up for an award where there was voting allowed and I was allowed to vote, I'd vote for myself.

If I post a story it is because I believe in it. So I vote for it.

I like the political analogy. That implies a re-calibration. Many here think 3.5 is a bad score. But think about it-that means more people liked your story than didn't. If a politician has positive approval numbers, even marginally, they get re-elected!

 

[PoisonPen33]

I admit, I vote on my own stories.

Chasing that red H is like chasing a really good high. When a story that's been sitting at 4.48 for months jumps to 4.5 and gets that red H, it's like a shot of really good tequila for my writing side. If I can help myself get that red H...

However, I won't vote on my own story if I'm submitting it for a contest. I'll wait until it's over and prizes have been awarded before throwing up a '5.'

 

[MelissaBaby]

That ↑

I know how I feel about my stories. And my single vote wouldn't do a damn thing to jack up the vote even if I wanted it to. So I don't.

Comshaw

When you write in the less popular categories, it can take a while to get 10 votes. I think you get more readers when you have that red H, and you have a limited amount of time before you drop off the new list and out of sight. So, it's important to get that H as soon as you can. In that case, one more 5 vote can make a difference.

 

[MrPixel]

When you write in the less popular categories, it can take a while to get 10 votes. I think you get more readers when you have that red H, and you have a limited amount of time before you drop off the new list and out of sight. So, it's important to get that H as soon as you can. In that case, one more 5 vote can make a difference.

Thank you for making this case. It's the limited time in the "new" lists that vexes my stories in the relative ghost town of GS. I have one right now that went live yesterday with seven votes, six '5' and one '4', that I'm afraid will fall out of view before getting to the 'H' threshold. I need to add my own '5' and maybe it'll get some love... or at least some really satisfying sex.

EDIT: I didn't need to! By the time I looked, three more votes with a '5'. They like me! They really really like me!

 

[windar]

Back in the Dark Ages, when I was a student, the campus anarchist groups used to put up posters around election time that said: "Don't Vote, It Only Encourages Them!". A very funny writer, PJ O'Rourke, wrote a book with a similar title.

 

[LargoKitt]

Thank you for making this case. It's the limited time in the "new" lists that vexes my stories in the relative ghost town of GS. I have one right now that went live yesterday with seven votes, six '5' and one '4', that I'm afraid will fall out of view before getting to the 'H' threshold. I need to add my own '5' and maybe it'll get some love... or at least some really satisfying sex.

EDIT: I didn't need to! By the time I looked, three more votes with a '5'. They like me! They really really like me!

How does one know how many of what level vote one gets? I see no place for getting the whole spread.

 

[Lifestyle66]

How does one know how many of what level vote one gets? I see no place for getting the whole spread.

If you post a new story, watch the rating change over the subsequent hours and days. There are only specific combinations of 1's through 5's which will make the rating change to that next average.

 

[NotWise]

How does one know how many of what level vote one gets? I see no place for getting the whole spread.

The site doesn't offer the whole spread. The only way to get it is to track your score and number of votes, and back-calculate what the votes were.

 

[LongDraw]

I only vote my stories a 5 because it is guaranteed there will be 1* bomb votes in it. And then I think about all those likely under 18 voters 1* bombing people, even though they aren't even supposed to be on the site at all, because the site admins still don't require you to be registered, verified, and logged in to vote. No, just go to the last page and click, which means these people with really high scores in low score categories the and more than 10 votes the first day are probably having their same group of rl friends upvote them, likely without even reading their submission.

In the end though, yes, I do it to counter one of those bombs.

 

[NC_Coastal]

Oh I always give mine a 5 to offset the anonymous guy who lurks and gives me 1s and tells me how bad of a writer I am.

 

[yukonnights]

I figure that if LitE didn't approve of self voting they wouldn't have allowed it. To that end I vote my opinion on my stories. If LitE took that option away it wouldn't rock my day a bit though.

 

[LexxRuthless]

When I posted my first few stories, I didn't understand how the rating system really works here. I used to teach at our community college, and I got rated by my students at the end of each term. The students gave a 1-to-5 rating for several areas, and I used those reviews to improve my teaching. I figured I would try several different writing styles and subjects here, and let reader feedback guide what I should write next. So, I didn't vote on my own stories.

It turns out, though, that there are just too many random variables affecting what the final score will be, too many lurking down-voters, so the score really affects who will bother to read your story in the first place. If I had known that, I would have voted on every one of my stories. I think every author has the right to give themselves a 5-star rating on everything they believe is good enough to post here. You know how much work you've put into it, so giving your own story that favorable review should be a reward for all your hard work.

That said, I still haven't voted on any of my own work here.

 

[oggbashan]

When the lighthouse was introduced (now long gone) I voted on one of my low scoring stories to see what effect it had. It registered but with so many others voting it down, the effect was short-lived and minimal.

Normally I wouldn't vote for myself, and certainly not in a contest.

But that reminds me of a political contest for a local council years ago. One of the candidates had ZERO votes. He hadn't bothered to vote for himself and thought his mother would but she told him he was an idiot for standing.