Wtfo

[anonamouse]

Looking at underReader Voting:
Top Rated Submissions: Poetry
Besides a certain tendency toward simplicity (sometimes excessive) and well organized voting blocks....
I ran across a poem rated at 5.00 with 11 comments, one commenter had left a .25 and another .50
Interesting ..... must be modern math


Oh, and BTW I always leave the number.(just in case)

 

[Liar]

Looking at underReader Voting:
Top Rated Submissions: Poetry
Besides a certain tendency toward simplicity (sometimes excessive) and well organized voting blocks....
I ran across a poem rated at 5.00 with 11 comments, one commenter had left a .25 and another .50
Interesting ..... must be modern math


Oh, and BTW I always leave the number.(just in case)

*shrug* If you vote before you leave a comment, the rating in the comment doesn't register as a vote. But it's probably votes swept for one reason or another. And there are lotsa plausible reasons.

Or is that a tin foil hat I see? Et tu, anona?

 

[anonamouse]

*shrug* If you vote before you leave a comment, the rating in the comment doesn't register as a vote. But it's probably votes swept for one reason or another. And there are lotsa plausible reasons.

Or is that a tin foil hat I see? Et tu, anona?

No hat, grey hair of the dog.
I know Zeros are swept, I lost a few on mine, but .25's? Why even have the damn zeros?
I want to hear these plausible reasons.

 

[champagne1982]

<snip>I want to hear these plausible reasons.

Sometimes, all a contributor need do is ask that fraudulent or vindictive votes be swept from their work.
I have never felt the need to do this since I know that low votes are just as valid as high ones. There is nothing wrong with a poem that is rated within that 25 point range between perfection and better than average. It's just that the system doesn't allow us to rate in fractions, even though the score is calculated in them, that sticks in my craw.
Then there are the regular LitScript sweeps that run on a regular basis.
Lastly, before contest winners are announced, the scripts run sweeps constantly, so that the voting is as unstacked as possible.

Nothing is perfect.

 

[sandspike]

Looking at underReader Voting:
Top Rated Submissions: Poetry
Besides a certain tendency toward simplicity (sometimes excessive) and well organized voting blocks....
I ran across a poem rated at 5.00 with 11 comments, one commenter had left a .25 and another .50
Interesting ..... must be modern math


Oh, and BTW I always leave the number.(just in case)

Would it be out of the question to tell us which poem. The numbers
have my head wondering. I want to see if I like it or hate it. Seems
to be a two way street here.

 

[twelveoone]

Sometimes, all a contributor need do is ask that fraudulent or vindictive votes be swept from their work.
I have never felt the need to do this since I know that low votes are just as valid as high ones. There is nothing wrong with a poem that is rated within that 25 point range between perfection and better than average. It's just that the system doesn't allow us to rate in fractions, even though the score is calculated in them, that sticks in my craw.
Then there are the regular LitScript sweeps that run on a regular basis.
Lastly, before contest winners are announced, the scripts run sweeps constantly, so that the voting is as unstacked as possible.

Nothing is perfect.

So, if I claim....

 

[champagne1982]

So, if I claim....

Sadly, most often, yes.

 

[twelveoone]

Would it be out of the question to tell us which poem. The numbers
have my head wondering. I want to see if I like it or hate it. Seems
to be a two way street here.

Won't do, would be singling out. Person doesn't derserve it ~ they left the comments and scores.

 

[Liar]

No hat, grey hair of the dog.
I know Zeros are swept, I lost a few on mine, but .25's? Why even have the damn zeros?
I want to hear these plausible reasons.

Commentor votes a 1, but doesn't have the stones (or doesn't want to shout that rating out loud out of concern, perhaps?) to put a bottom rating in a public comment.

That's one.

Rating got sweeped for other reasons. I think if you leave the same rating on all submissions by the same author on the same day, it triggers the scripts' suspicions, even if it's not a 1 vote.

That's two.

Human error. Laurel made a boo-boo. It happens. They got a lot of stuff on their handfs.

That's three.