voting

[juanjsojr]

when I finish readin when you vote the first time. when you read the second time does the vote counts on the same story when you read it another time

 

[flawed_ethics]

As I understand it, yes, the vote will count.

This will allow the mischevious amongst us to inflate their scores, and allow others to knock down the scores of other stories in hopes of preventing them from garnering notice in the Top Lists.

Too much successive voting will garner the ire of the site administrators, however, and if your caught, your votes will be disqualified, and reprecussions will follow.

So play fair. No need to go overboard on account of a few decimal places.

 

[juanjsojr]

don't worry

I don't cheat to vote on my own story but I vote more then twice in other storys to get a good rating

 

[lucky-E-leven]

I was under the impression that any duplicate votes would be tossed out. I've also heard it said that each computer has its own signature that allows the administrators to locate duplicate votes that may have been posted under other Lit handles from the same machine.

If I'm wrong, I'm wrong and someone will no doubt come along and make it known.

~lucky

 

[wishfulthinking]

I think Laurel does a clean out every so often of repeat votes.

You gasp when you score drops .10 points, until you realise the number of votes dropped also.

Gotta thank the readers, but unfortunately they don't count.

 

[Boxlicker101]

I was under the impression that any duplicate votes would be tossed out. I've also heard it said that each computer has its own signature that allows the administrators to locate duplicate votes that may have been posted under other Lit handles from the same machine.

If I'm wrong, I'm wrong and someone will no doubt come along and make it known.

~lucky

This doesn't seem fair to me. If I read a story and vote on it and then my wife reads the same story on the same computer and also votes, do both votes get canceled? What about a computer in a library or some place?

 

[lucky-E-leven]

This doesn't seem fair to me. If I read a story and vote on it and then my wife reads the same story on the same computer and also votes, do both votes get canceled? What about a computer in a library or some place?

I didn't make the rules, Box. I see your point, but that's just what I've read somewhere before. Wish I could remember the thread or the poster, but I can't. Sorry. Hopefully someone can clear it up for us.

~lucky

 

[Guest]

You can't vote more than once on the same story. I'm not quite sure what the exact system is - whether it's done by cookies or IP logging, but it's not merely the fact that duplicate votes will get removed; duplicate votes don't even register in the first place.

Lou

 

[lucky-E-leven]

You can't vote more than once on the same story. I'm not quite sure what the exact system is - whether it's done by cookies or IP logging, but it's not merely the fact that duplicate votes will get removed; duplicate votes don't even register in the first place.

Lou

Good Morning and Thank You, gorgeous. That's what I'd heard and am glad to know that duplicates don't even register in the first place. Was curious about that.

*yawn* found something that's hooked me and it is almost 3:30 a.m. here. must go to bed, but can't. *crying*

~lucky

 

[Liar]

Fairly common practice on sites like this, we do the same thing where I work. One vote per client. You can't really do it per IP number alone, on a workplace, thousands of people can share the same IP, so I guess it's a cookie solution.

Which means that you should be able to let more than one person vote from the saem computer. Of you use user profiles in Windows, you have your own setup of cookies.

If not, use individual web browsers. I know two Litizens who do that (Icingsugar who runs Firefox and Linbido who runs Explorer, on the same system), and it seems to be working.

#L

 

[Guest]

Good Morning and Thank You, gorgeous. That's what I'd heard and am glad to know that duplicates don't even register in the first place. Was curious about that.

*yawn* found something that's hooked me and it is almost 3:30 a.m. here. must go to bed, but can't. *crying*

~lucky

Good morning sweetie, and it's very early in the morning for you!

Yes, as Liar said, it's the kind of system most sites like this have in place. He explained it all much better than me, and I agree, it must be something to do with installing a cookie onto your browser. It's cool that couples, such as Ice and Lin, do have a system in place to get around one of them not being able to vote.

*hugs* to you, I hope you do manage to get some rest.

Lou

 

[lucky-E-leven]

Good morning sweetie, and it's very early in the morning for you!

Yes, as Liar said, it's the kind of system most sites like this have in place. He explained it all much better than me, and I agree, it must be something to do with installing a cookie onto your browser. It's cool that couples, such as Ice and Lin, do have a system in place to get around one of them not being able to vote.

*hugs* to you, I hope you do manage to get some rest.

Lou

Thanks Liar & Lou. It's good to know that there are safeguards in place for duplicate votes (evil trolls), as well as ways to get around them for users sharing a machine.

~lucky

Lou darling, how is a girl supposed to go to sleep with you handing her your , giving her a and finally a ? This confuses me. All wound up now , but as the thing I was hooked into fizzled into a disastrous mess and proved to be a horrendous waste of time, I think it's time to shrug out of these blue jeans and slip into a coma. Thoughts of you: hearts, kisses and roses on my mind.

 

[Guest]

Night night, honey. I now have thoughts of you slipping out of those blue jeans.

I hope your troubles will seem smaller after a good sleep.

Lou - sending you more

 

[Liar]

I think it's time to shrug out of these blue jeans and slip into a coma.

Up until "coma", you just did some strange things to my pulse rate...

#L

 

[Dirt Man]

Up until "coma", you just did some strange things to my pulse rate...

#L

One computer, one vote per story. Sorry, but that's the way it works. Time to buy another computer if you don't like it, I guess.


As Always
I Am the
Dirt Man

 

[dirtylover]

voting scale

Gonna change the subject a bit here...

(OMG - just had really strong deja vu!)

Is it me, or would the voting system be vastly improved if it where done as a percentage? I hate to criticise, since I appreciate the vast amount of work that must go into maintaining a site this size. However, when I've read a story I quite often can't decide what to vote.

Sometimes I'll really enjoy a story, but think it has weaknesses. I'm loathe to give it a 5, since this suggests perfection. I may also not want to give it a 4, since in lot of cases this would lower its rating, even though I consider 4/5 to be pretty good! Therefore, I often don't vote, which also doesn't seem very fair to the writer.

Another point - the ratings are given to two decimal places. That doesn't really make sense to me, on a 1 - 5 scale. Why not simply score out of a hundred? I think it would make it easier to assess how good you think a story is.

Also, on a percentage scale, I think you'd get less of a high-end cluster. For example, I'll nearly always read stories that have high ratings or by authors I like, and consequently give a high vote. In fact, I usually only vote on work that I think deserves a 5. If I was giving a percentage score, I think I'd vote more often, and more accurately.

On a personal note, I have a story that's rated as 4.05. I think it's pretty crap, I wrote it quite a while ago, and think a 4 vote would be pretty generous. However, that would lower it's rating....bugger, lost my train of thought. Have no idea what I'm going on about...

Anyway, I appreciate that I probably sound like a pedantic ass (I am), and that some of you couldn't give two hoots about voting, but I'd like to hear what everybody else thinks. I also don't know how feasible it would be to change the voting system, but hey.

 

[Dirt Man]

Re: voting scale

Gonna change the subject a bit here...

(OMG - just had really strong deja vu!)

Is it me, or would the voting system be vastly improved if it where done as a percentage? I hate to criticise, since I appreciate the vast amount of work that must go into maintaining a site this size. However, when I've read a story I quite often can't decide what to vote.

Sometimes I'll really enjoy a story, but think it has weaknesses. I'm loathe to give it a 5, since this suggests perfection. I may also not want to give it a 4, since in lot of cases this would lower its rating, even though I consider 4/5 to be pretty good! Therefore, I often don't vote, which also doesn't seem very fair to the writer.

Another point - the ratings are given to two decimal places. That doesn't really make sense to me, on a 1 - 5 scale. Why not simply score out of a hundred? I think it would make it easier to assess how good you think a story is.

Also, on a percentage scale, I think you'd get less of a high-end cluster. For example, I'll nearly always read stories that have high ratings or by authors I like, and consequently give a high vote. In fact, I usually only vote on work that I think deserves a 5. If I was giving a percentage score, I think I'd vote more often, and more accurately.

On a personal note, I have a story that's rated as 4.05. I think it's pretty crap, I wrote it quite a while ago, and think a 4 vote would be pretty generous. However, that would lower it's rating....bugger, lost my train of thought. Have no idea what I'm going on about...

Anyway, I appreciate that I probably sound like a pedantic ass (I am), and that some of you couldn't give two hoots about voting, but I'd like to hear what everybody else thinks. I also don't know how feasible it would be to change the voting system, but hey.

Basically, you are spitting into the wind here. Sorry to say but what we have is what there is. It isn't fair, well not completely, but it also isn't unfair either. The system is what it is. Of course you have a right to bitch about it, but that too is just pissing into the wind. And no matter how perfect, or imperfect a system is, somebody will always find a way to cheat I'm afraid. And even if nobody cheated you'd still have people voting the way only they can vote. Some like yourself only try to read stories that are at the top of the ratings, and that way they can vote a natural 5, and feel good about it. While those like myself who once they open a story read it until they puke if nessassary, and vote accordingly. I never vote a 1, just for submitting they deserve at least a 2. A 3 is average with a need for an additional editing. A 4 is a well written story with no mistakes in grammar, or spelling. A 5 doesn't have to be perfect, it just has to be the kind of story that I can't stop reading until the end. If every body voted this way the lists would be much more accurate, but they don't, and that's why some crap is on the top lists.

As Always
I Am the
Dirt Man

 

[KenJames]

I just don't vote any more unless I'm going to give a 4 or 5, and I'll often read stories without voting and return to them later, when I've finally decided.

 

[snooper]

Voting choices

On another site I read, it has just been suggested that the Romans had the answer. Two choices, thumbs up or thumbs down.

 

[juanjsojr]

vote

those people who voted lower ofr my story doesn't know anything about how well I did al least more people say better things in feedback then voting the only storys I vote a 1 is lesbians that is one boring and sick storys

 

[destinie21]

Re: vote

those people who voted lower ofr my story doesn't know anything about how well I did al least more people say better things in feedback then voting the only storys I vote a 1 is lesbians that is one boring and sick storys

may I just say and and lest we forget *sigh
I'm done now.

 

[Guest]

Re: Re: vote

may I just say and and lest we forget *sigh
I'm done now.

I admire your restraint, Dest. If I'd got here first, I don't think I would've been quite so calm about it.

Lou

 

[dirtylover]

Interesting that it's three guys that have replied to my comment on voting. I was reading somewhere that men really care about this sort of thing, but women don't. For example, top 100 lists are generally aimed at men: sexy women, films, books, cars, trains, stamps...etc Is this true I wonder?

 

[Guest]

Interesting that it's three guys that have replied to my comment on voting. I was reading somewhere that men really care about this sort of thing, but women don't. For example, top 100 lists are generally aimed at men: sexy women, films, books, cars, trains, stamps...etc Is this true I wonder?

Yes.







Oh, sorry, did you want a longer answer? I'll compile a list of the top 100 reasons.

Lou

 

[dirtylover]

well he's gay, so what's wrong with him finding lesbians dull? (although I guess there's no need to read or vote in that case, so yeah)