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The now fully official Author’s Hangout Halloween 2025 competition support thread

Actingup said:
The sweeps were really interesting. Eight of my stories changed in score. My 'Change Management', languishing in Erotic Horror, suddenly lost about 10% of its 87 votes and moved from 4.39 to 4.67, from which I conclude that there were some obvious bombs picked up by the algorithm and some really horrible, withered people with scaly faces live in erotic horror (and will never escape). Conversely, I had a more recent non-Halloween story in Loving Wives that was also swept but only moved from 4.17 to 4.19 - perhaps suggesting the LW voters tend to be more tough but fair with a lower proportion of bombers amongst a crowd that tend to give a high number of views and votes. That's my theory, anyway.
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I had far fewer votes impacted than from any of the last three sweeps. Only two votes I have found, but both were notable. I lost an H from a story (I lost a lone 5 there and it's a story I knew would eventually lose that H.) And a story lost a 1, which jumped it from just off the all time list to number 7 in the all-time category list. Not going to point out which story, but that was kind of cool.

I was wondering if I just hadn't been hit as much this go round, but I'm suspicious. I had a fair number of 1's not swept.

Losing that five continued a pattern. And I have participated in three author organized events, which have resulted in my only three non H stories. Odd. Hopefully 2026 will be different for that.
 
iwatchus said:
I was wondering if I just hadn't been hit as much this go round, but I'm suspicious. I had a fair number of 1's not swept.
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As with the problem with submissions and notifications, it seems that the sweep (singular) missed a real lot of stuff this time around. Let’s hope this is not a sign of things to come.
 
StillStunned said:
And the winners have been announced! https://www.literotica.com/stories/contest.php/halloween-2025

Congratulations to @Nellymcboatface, @BrokenSpokes and @Aoife_from_Ulster! And well done to everyone who wrote and/or read a story!
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Congrats to the winner.
Hey I finished 4th. or 5th. or last. Who cares? Not me. I won in my book. 251 vote (most) and a 4.69 rating (most).
The sweep moved me +0.01! Yeah!

I am actually sad that the contest is over because I will not get to start my day with Lily and Emma drawing.

@EmilyMiller, thank you for running the contest.

@Duleigh, can you post the link to the winter contest?

And finally, thank you to all the authors who posted in that thread. For a month, I felt less lonely as a writer of low quality porn.
 
Congrats to all the winners 🎉🎆🎇

I couldn't finish my story in time to compete, but it's finally done. I thought briefly about sitting on it until next year (and it doesn't deserve to have my fat ass sit on it), but I said fuck it and submitted it. I have a couple more Halloween ideas I'll tuck away for next year. My lesson learned is I need to start earlier.
 
For better or worse I didn't get so much traffic as to attract 1-bombs the way I did in the summer contest, so conversely the sweeps did nothing for me (except, again, weirdly killing one 5 star rating :mad: ; I choose to believe someone liked the story so much they voted on it twice and got caught)

Still can't complain - the contest still gave me a boost of attention, and I kept track of the votes well enough to be able to tell that the worst vote I got was one lone 2-star just before the finish line, otherwise 4s and 5s only.
 
SouthernCrossfire said:
Congratulations to Nellymcboatface, BrokenSpokes, and Aoife_from_Ulster on their win and to all who entered. I haven't had a lot of time but have enjoyed the few stories that I've read.

I'd mentioned somewhat low views earlier in the thread and a number of writers agreed. My story overcame an initial 1-bomb within minutes of publishing; it depressed the score during the critical first 24-hours (when on the category new list and most views are received), so I suspect that may have depressed the number of readers from the usually reliable category list in addition to the effect of the large number of entries on the contest listing. That I forgot to add the rest of my tags may have also contributed.

Whatever the causes, this story ended up as my contest entry with my fewest-ever number of views though the overall reactions of actual readers were very good and the story's rating finished about where I'd hoped. Thanks to all who read and left feedback in whatever form.

Finally, thanks to Emily for some fun pics and excellent interactive thread event hosting.
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Yes! A huge thank you and shoutout to @EmilyMiller for all you did here I loved the art❤️💜🖤
 
HippyJeanSalon said:
Congrats to all the winners 🎉🎆🎇

I couldn't finish my story in time to compete, but it's finally done. I thought briefly about sitting on it until next year (and it doesn't deserve to have my fat ass sit on it), but I said fuck it and submitted it. I have a couple more Halloween ideas I'll tuck away for next year. My lesson learned is I need to start earlier.
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Or you could do a ChloeTzang and submit 10 minutes before the deadline. 🤣
 
DEFCOM5 said:
@EmilyMiller , THANK YOU for running the support thread!
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Huge thank you for running this thread. It was most enlightening to follow.

I ended up with my top number of favourites at 107, 62.1K views, 13 comments, and a rating of 4.64/1K, and am sitting at #14 on the popular story list for the last 30 days filter.

Contests certainly gave me more exposure but didn't really effect my ratings which seem to hover around 4.6ish. With a peak of #12 on the list, I think this has been my most 'popular' story so far.

I will assume I was a close fourth in the contest ... have to say, I do like this system rather than a full listing of all entrants (but really want to see the data ... hahaha).

I had a great time writing and really enjoyed reading the other author comments.

Looking forward to seeing you all on the Yule side.
 
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