Okay, guys, here's a thread to air your views on voting

[theognis]

Just out of curiousity what are the avergae views/ votes for an erotic poem or non erotic? I know in incest category a new story cand land me 50,000 views and 50 votes in a day but BDSM is like 3-4000 in the first day with maybe 15 votes or so. fetish is lower those are the only 3 I have written in.

Poems get only a tiny fraction of your views and votes. A total of 50,000 views and 50 votes in one day are absolutely unheard of here. It's difficult to get even ten votes over a period of weeks, even months, perhaps years.

 

[UnderYourSpell]

Maybe thís should be better?

theognis is using it already

 

[theognis]

theognis is using it already

That's basically true.

 

[UnderYourSpell]

That's basically true.

so really the ones you aren't voting on at all means you are voting less than a one to everyone else

 

[theognis]

so really the ones you aren't voting on at all means you are voting less than a one to everyone else

That's true, if you mean less than a five, but sometimes I vote without commenting, and I don't read all the poems. So it's not that simple to figure out which ones I don't care for, and which ones I do.

 

[UnderYourSpell]

That's true, if you mean less than a five, but sometimes I vote without commenting, and I don't read all the poems. So it's not that simple to figure out which ones I don't care for, and which ones I do.

I see ...... I think .... so if you had had a 1 vote but no comment that would have been ok? or it's ok for you to vote less than one but not ok for someone else to vote 1 which is more than you are giving

 

[theognis]

I see ...... I think .... so if you had had a 1 vote but no comment that would have been ok? or it's ok for you to vote less than one but not ok for someone else to vote 1 which is more than you are giving

I never vote less than five.

 

[UnderYourSpell]

I never vote less than five.

but you do all the time can't you see that when you don't vote at all you are voting less than 1

 

[theognis]

Is there anyone here who has submitted a poem they thought was worth only a one vote? If there is, tell me who you are, and tell me which poem it is. I'd like to read it.

 

[theognis]

but you do all the time can't you see that when you don't vote at all you are voting less than 1

That's not true.

 

[UnderYourSpell]

here THIS is pretty dire

 

[UnderYourSpell]

That's not true.

a non vote is less than giving a 1 (like 0 is less than 1 ... yes?)

 

[theognis]

here THIS is pretty dire

I disagree with you, my dear. It should be 'cursed' in the one line, but I liked the poem. Perhaps not a five, but certainly not a one.

 

[UnderYourSpell]

I disagree with you, my dear. It should be 'cursed' in the one line, but I liked the poem. Perhaps not a five, but certainly not a one.

so you wouldn't have put a 5 on it you would have put a 0

 

[theognis]

a non vote is less than giving a 1 (like 0 is less than 1 ... yes?)

If that were true, I wouldn't be the only one giving zeros around here.

 

[theognis]

so you wouldn't have put a 5 on it you would have put a 0

If you want to know what I would vote on it, if I broke my rule; I'd give it a four, if you made the correction I suggested.

 

[UnderYourSpell]

If that were true, I wouldn't be the only one giving zeros around here.

that is very true but nobody else is throwing a paddy about it

 

[Liar]

I never vote less than five.

Whaty would you say is the treshold for voting?

If something is really fantastic it gets a 5.
If something is pretty good it gets a 5.
If something shows a little promise but don't quite deliver it gets a.... ?
If something is kind of average it gets a.... ?
If something is below average it gets a nothing.
If something sucks balls it gets a nothing.

 

[theognis]

that is very true but nobody else is throwing a paddy about it

Neither am I, but some are throwing paddies about fives.

 

[theognis]

Whaty would you say is the treshold for voting?

If something is really fantastic it gets a 5.
If something is pretty good it gets a 5.
If something shows a little promise but don't quite deliver it gets a.... ?
If something is kind of average it gets a.... ?
If something is below average it gets a nothing.
If something sucks balls it gets a nothing.

The way I do it, if something is better than a four, I give it a five, because there's no way to give it something in between. I'm not recommending or suggesting that anyone vote in the way I do. It would make them very unpopular, apparently.

 

[UnderYourSpell]

No, but some are throwing paddies about fives.

this isn't throwing a paddy you wouldn't like me at all if I did, this is logic that you seem to find very hard to grasp, but hey maybe I'm wrong and maths has moved on since I was at school

 

[UnderYourSpell]

The way I do it, if something is better than a four, I give it a five, because there's no way to give it something in between. I'm not recommending or suggesting that anyone vote in the way I do. It would make them very unpopular, apparently.

you're not the only one who does

 

[theognis]

this isn't throwing a paddy you wouldn't like me at all if I did, this is logic that you seem to find very hard to grasp, but hey maybe I'm wrong and maths has moved on since I was at school

Apparently logic has moved on, because you haven't been logical at all.

 

[bronzeage]

Whaty would you say is the treshold for voting?

If something is really fantastic it gets a 5.
If something is pretty good it gets a 5.
If something shows a little promise but don't quite deliver it gets a.... ?
If something is kind of average it gets a.... ?
If something is below average it gets a nothing.
If something sucks balls it gets a nothing.

I used to be a member of a long since defunct poetry board. It vanished one day and didn't even leave an oil slick on the water. The woman who started the thing was a network engineer. She had a friend create a custom website for her.

The poems could be graded in 5 different categories on a scale of 1 to 10. The final score was the average of the 5 categories. It was fun while it lasted, but the results were about the same as the Lit score system.

 

[theognis]

I used to be a member of a long since defunct poetry board. It vanished one day and didn't even leave an oil slick on the water. The woman who started the thing was a network engineer. She had a friend create a custom website for her.

The poems could be graded in 5 different categories on a scale of 1 to 10. The final score was the average of the 5 categories. It was fun while it lasted, but the results were about the same as the Lit score system.

I like the idea of a 1 to 10 scale, but do you remember the five categories?