Winter Holiday Support Thread

[Alex756]

Oddly from the gender genie my NORMAL writing style is just barely female, like less than 1% difference in the male/female score.

The non con story I did that EVERYONE assumes is written by a female came out glaringly male though, like hugely monsterously male. Oddly its the most female writing I think I've ever done, shows what I know huh?

I lam having mucho fun with this thing, thanks for mentioning it Box

~Alex

 

[sophia jane]

Is this it?

http://www.bookblog.net/gender/genie.html

?

Interestingly my holidayt contest it says female! sooryy for bad typing toddler helping ")

~Aklex

3/5 it guessed female. The two "male" ones- my bdsm story and my anal story.

 

[Unsung Muse]

Is this it?
http://www.bookblog.net/gender/genie.html

That is just too entertaining!
Thanks for sharing the time-sucking gizmo!

I can't believe it came up 'male' for my Halloween story...
other two both resulted 'female', but by a very tight margin.

 

[Roxanne Appleby]

Is this it?

http://www.bookblog.net/gender/genie.html

?

Check out the "statistics" on that page, though. It looks like it has a very bad track record on fiction greater than 500 words. So it might be pretty meaningless. The algorithm seems kind of simplistic, but I don't know enough to be able to say for sure.

 

[cloudy]

I may actually have a story for this contest, wonder of wonders. When is the deadline?

 

[Boxlicker101]

Is this it?

http://www.bookblog.net/gender/genie.html

?

Check out the "statistics" on that page, though. It looks like it has a very bad track record on fiction greater than 500 words. So it might be pretty meaningless. The algorithm seems kind of simplistic, but I don't know enough to be able to say for sure.

According to its own statistics, it is right less than 60% of the time. That really isn't very good. I ran two stories just now, one gay male and one lesbian. It was right on the first and wrong on the second. That's in keeping with what it was like when it was around a while ago.

I remember also that if you say it was wrong, it insults the writer.

 

[Boxlicker101]

I may actually have a story for this contest, wonder of wonders. When is the deadline?

Posted no later than Dec. 7

 

[Unsung Muse]

Check out the "statistics" on that page, though. It looks like it has a very bad track record on fiction greater than 500 words. So it might be pretty meaningless. The algorithm seems kind of simplistic, but I don't know enough to be able to say for sure.

Lots of meaningless things entertain me!
Though I must have misread it, as I thought it
claimed to work best on works over 500 words?

Going to run some male authored lesbian pieces through it now...

 

[cookiejar]

Is this it?

http://www.bookblog.net/gender/genie.html

?

Interestingly my holidayt contest it says female! sooryy for bad typing toddler helping ")

~Aklex

I put up my story "Death of a Toolman" and it said male. Then when I corrected, it said I was 'one butch chick.'

 

[Boxlicker101]

I just ran a third person story thrugh it. It said Female: 10,033 and Male: 7,333 or something close to that. I thought that in third person it would be more accurate because I use both masculine and feminine pronouns but that was not the case.

 

[Alex756]

Out of couriosity since it seemed to have better accuracy stats for non fiction I grabbed some papers and popped those in.

male male male male

Oddly the femaleness of these papers was found mostly in my snarky passages. The more fact based areas with the citations came out male.

I tend to write non fiction with some humor,

This is female:

Is it as wrong to kill a machine, as it is to kill a person? The first answer to come to mind would be ‘No’. In fact it would seem to be an absurd question. When I turn my computer off, or when I pull the key from my truck I am not ‘killing’ anything. Even if I were to dismantle both of these machines, I would not find the county sheriff at my door for a mechanical homicide charge.

This is VERY male according to the algorythem, same paper:

It may appear to an outside observer that the person inside the room understands Chinese. However, they only understand their well-written directions in English. Thus, while Searle agrees it is perfectly possible to construct a computer capable of mimicking understanding, it is impossible for it to truly understand. No matter how well written and complex the directions and the script are, there will never be any understanding. There is no magical point where enough data is accumulated that the computer would understand the story. It is only able to ‘trick’ the questioner into thinking it understands just like in the original game the Turing test is based on the woman who tries to trick the questioner into thinking she is a man.

*laughs* I just noticed the last line in that quote, how appropriate

I wonder if things written in certain styles are more liekly to score male. Evidently the phil of science scored male, 4 for 4 papers. I can't find anything on another subject.

~Alex

 

[Unsung Muse]

I just lost faith in it's accuracy!

I thought it especially befitting to runs Doc's "Gender Issues"
through the Gender Genie...
returned a "female" result by quite a large margin.

Too funny...
Still fun to play with!

 

[Guest]

As of right now I have read and voted on all of the stories on the holiday page... I did not comment on that last oh I don't know 30 of them because I got behind while I was gone....

 

[Alex756]

As of right now I have read and voted on all of the stories on the holiday page... I did not comment on that last oh I don't know 30 of them because I got behind while I was gone....

Ahh the bad part of being last on the list 2 days in a row

You're a heck of a lot farther in reading than I am though

~Alex

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

Lizzy, thanks for the vote(s). I know it's a chore to do RCV's on folks with two or more stories.

I've been meaning to ask about your busted bones.

Muse, I ran my Holiday Contest entry from this year and last year past the Gender Genie. The 2004 entry, A Special Christmas Present, was in the first person POV of a very pregnant young woman. The GG said it had a female author. I was pleased.

My new entry this year, Belle of Catawba St., is third person with a male POV. The GG identified the writer as a guy. I was relieved.

Just cause I was curious, I checked out the Gettysburg Address. After reminding me it did best with pieces that were over 500 words, GG said it had a male author. Mr. Lincoln's feelings on the news has not been revealed, but the OUIJA board is working overtime.

Rumple Foreskin

 

[Boxlicker101]

I must say, stories get posted quickly. My story, actually a chapter of a story, was posted about twelve hours after it was submitted. It may have been more than twelve, but it was less than fifteen. Hopefully, I can get the second part posted before the deadline or, at least, before the voting deadline.

 

[Guest]

Lizzy, thanks for the vote(s). I know it's a chore to do RCV's on folks with two or more stories.

I've been meaning to ask about your busted bones.
Rumple Foreskin

Your welcome and anytime....
busted ones are slowly mending which is good because they are making me cranky

 

[kromen]

Hello fellow writers

Is it just me or does everyone in the Winter contest (or any submissions) check their tallys everyday? It's like an addiction with me. Oh yeah, Lizzie? Thanks for the comments. Much appreciated.

 

[Aurora Black]

Is it just me or does everyone in the Winter contest (or any submissions) check their tallys everyday? It's like an addiction with me.

Yep, same here. Although I'm cutting down on checking my score now. When I first submitted my story I checked several times a day, but now I limit myself to only two or three times a day.

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

Yep, same here. Although I'm cutting down on checking my score now. When I first submitted my story I checked several times a day, but now I limit myself to only two or three times a day.

Aurora and Kromen,

When it comes to checking scores, you two sound, let's just say, no more abnormal than the rest of us. There seems to be a pattern that a large chunk of a story's votes and views come after its just been posted and is, usually, still on the first page of the NEW list. (If the pace of submissions is slow, it might stay there two days. If there's a flood of new stories, it could start out on page two.)

Votes and views will (again, usually) continue to come in a steady pace until the story drops off the list. Once that happens, even if your story is a contest entry, activity s-l-o-w-s w--a--y d---o---w---n, so there's little incentive to keep checking.

Rumple Foreksin

 

[dreampilot79]

I guess I'm guilty of frequent score checking for the first week or so that a story is up..... after that.. things don't seem to change much at all.

My story hasn't changed much of anything in the last week. Picked up three votes (two 1 bombs)... and the score went down. Had the two 1's removed. Basically back to square one. Then had a duplicate 5 (I assume) removed. Now I stand at exactly the same score and vote total as a week ago.

I was even celebrating with that score.. till I heard some others.... now' I'm just happy to have any score at all....lol.

Oh yeah... finding out that I have no chance in the contest kind of slows down my interest in the scores too...lol.

The only joy is seeing what wonderful stories are out there whippin my ass!

 

[Honey123]

Ok...I think you guys need a challenge.....

You all have this freakishly wonderful sense of humor so...check out my siggy and do the challenge....

I may have to thumb wrestle ya if you don't!!

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

Ok...I think you guys need a challenge.....

You all have this freakishly wonderful sense of humor so...check out my siggy and do the challenge....

I may have to thumb wrestle ya if you don't!!

I'd be a LOT more interested in leg wrestling, if it's all the same to you.

Rumple Foreskin

 

[Guest]

Is it just me or does everyone in the Winter contest (or any submissions) check their tallys everyday? It's like an addiction with me. Oh yeah, Lizzie? Thanks for the comments. Much appreciated.

I check all my tallies daily, and I love reading the feedback portal comments. Some of those trolls are really funny. It also gives me a heads up on what's good to read when I don't have a lot of time to figure it out myself. Anyone read DG Hear's newest Christmas story...it's a tear jerker.

 

[Guest]

Yep, same here. Although I'm cutting down on checking my score now. When I first submitted my story I checked several times a day, but now I limit myself to only two or three times a day.

Aurora...I love that quote from "Scrooged" He's always a laugh.