The Official Authors' Hangout Winter Holidays 2025 Support Thread

[Kelliezgirl]

Finishing ff my Winter Holidays story and then I saw this and realized hw much I have absorbed witghout thinking LOL

Half of these are in my story and I didn't even look them up rotflmao

https://twitter.com/x/status/1996527540023001348

That's insane. How do you even come up with the fish test?

 

[TheLobster]

Finishing ff my Winter Holidays story and then I saw this and realized hw much I have absorbed witghout thinking LOL

Half of these are in my story and I didn't even look them up rotflmao

https://twitter.com/x/status/1996527540023001348

wtf i love china now

...They don't have anything like that for males, right?

 

[mrs_mackenzie]

My entry, Mum, the Busty Beauty, went up yesterday.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

Wouldn’t you know it. Just as we hit the deadline, the perfect plot bunny hits. Maybe next year…

 

[TexasLark]

You should still have some time to resubmit your story. They know the end of the contest window is coming up so it might get approved pretty quick.

You'd think so, but it's not the case. Mine was sent back and I resubmitted it early
on the 2nd. It's just been sitting there in "pending" ever since.

 

[Inkent]

As seems to be the way for me of late, my entry "Derailed" was submitted a few hours back. I set myself a challenge last year to write a 2025 word story centred around the new year celebrations, so I thought it would be fun to do something similar for 2026 which is currently underway. Mmm sounds like I may be talking myself into organising an author challenge for 2027

 

[ChloeTzang]

You'd think so, but it's not the case. Mine was sent back and I resubmitted it early
on the 2nd. It's just been sitting there in "pending" ever since.

Can yu send me link and name of story and I will flag to Laurel - it had the winter holidays text in the Notes to Admin? right?

 

[TheLobster]

Shannon's Big Helper went up today! A subtle romance story with no sex, that's definitely a first for me

 

[cw5523729]

That's insane. How do you even come up with the fish test?

Not gonna lie, I only went back and watched the video to figure out what the "fish test" was.


Wow, my guess was waaaaay off.

 

[Lord_Libido]

Finishing ff my Winter Holidays story and then I saw this and realized hw much I have absorbed witghout thinking LOL

Half of these are in my story and I didn't even look them up rotflmao

https://twitter.com/x/status/1996527540023001348

When your country has over a billion people I guess you can afford to have standards like this.

 

[TheLobster]

Not gonna lie, I only went back and watched the video to figure out what the "fish test" was.


Wow, my guess was waaaaay off.

Yeah, not that kinda fish

But I'm surprised the test doesn't have the caveat you have to be completely relaxed. It's actually really easy to create a deep valley in the collar area if you just tilt your neck forward and slightly raise your shoulders. I mean, I can do it just fine, and I'm the furthest thing away from a lithe Chinese girl.

 

[Candy_Kane54]

Well, my second entry has been published, and it's getting hammered, so I'm not a happy camper ...

 

[cw5523729]

Well, my second entry has been published, and it's getting hammered, so I'm not a happy camper ...

 

[TheRedLantern]

Well, my second entry has been published, and it's getting hammered, so I'm not a happy camper ...

I'm getting several low votes a day, every day. There's no way what's happening to people's stories is legitimate. We can only hope the the sweep ends up being being handled with more effectiveness than some other things lately.

Edit: I'm not complaining, just reporting ... this contest has been amazing for me and I'm glad we're getting to have it, and I'm hopeful that the sweep will be thorough while tempering my expectations against the reality that the site has a lot of its hands right now.

 

[Kelliezgirl]

Yeah, not that kinda fish

But I'm surprised the test doesn't have the caveat you have to be completely relaxed. It's actually really easy to create a deep valley in the collar area if you just tilt your neck forward and slightly raise your shoulders. I mean, I can do it just fine, and I'm the furthest thing away from a lithe Chinese girl.

Well, if anyone could explain the fish test it would be a lobster....

 

[Ian_Snow]

Good luck, folks. Fell way behind on my reading but I loved what I did read.

 

[TexasLark]

Can yu send me link and name of story and I will flag to Laurel - it had the winter holidays text in the Notes to Admin? right?

I'll send you a pm..

 

[TheLobster]

I'm getting several low votes a day, every day. There's no way what's happening to people's stories is legitimate. We can only hope the the sweep ends up being being handled with more effectiveness than some other things lately.

Yeah, not great here either. Mine started at 4.7 with a handful of votes in; and since it's a story that's waaay outside of my usual porn-heavy fare (have I mentioned it has no sex?), I doubt it has been propped up much by my ardent followers.

But after that, it's been all downhill, and right now it doesn't even break above the H waterline anymore.

 

[Kelliezgirl]

Yeah, not great here either. Mine started at 4.7 with a handful of votes in; and since it's a story that's waaay outside of my usual porn-heavy fare (have I mentioned it has no sex?), I doubt it has been propped up much by my ardent followers.

But after that, it's been all downhill, and right now it doesn't even break above the H waterline anymore.

I know asking for changes is a waste of breath, but it would be interesting if they displayed scores like Rotten Tomatoes does movies.
They have an Audience Score and a Critics Score.
If Lit showed Registered User scores and Anonymous scores it would be really obvious if a story was getting malicious votes because there would be a huge gap between the scores.

 

[iwatchus]

I know asking for changes is a waste of breath, but it would be interesting if they displayed scores like Rotten Tomatoes does movies.
They have an Audience Score and a Critics Score.
If Lit showed Registered User scores and Anonymous scores it would be really obvious if a story was getting malicious votes because there would be a huge gap between the scores.

I oppose suggestions to block anonymous voting. (It makes no sense for the site). But I like this idea. Maybe use only the registered votes for prizes.

 

[cw5523729]

I oppose suggestions to block anonymous voting. (It makes no sense for the site). But I like this idea. Maybe use only the registered votes for prizes.

I love her idea but I'd personally be fine with blocking anonymous voting as well. If you want to 1-bomb me, you should have to do the work to at least make a bullshit account so that I know that you really, really wanted to 1-bomb me. Then I'd feel better about it. Anonymous 1-bombing is just plain lazy.

 

[Kelliezgirl]

I oppose suggestions to block anonymous voting. (It makes no sense for the site). But I like this idea. Maybe use only the registered votes for prizes.

I agree, I wouldn't want to get rid of anonymous voting, because I totally get people not wanting to register.

And we know there are people pathetic enough to have alts here, so it isn't perfect. But it makes more sense to me than trying to use a secret formula to adjust the numbers.

 

[SamanthaBehgs]

I'm getting several low votes a day, every day. There's no way what's happening to people's stories is legitimate. We can only hope the the sweep ends up being being handled with more effectiveness than some other things lately.

Edit: I'm not complaining, just reporting ... this contest has been amazing for me and I'm glad we're getting to have it, and I'm hopeful that the sweep will be thorough while tempering my expectations against the reality that the site has a lot of its hands right now.

Likewise, they come in like clockwork. I...didn't think I was any sort of anything enough to be on someone's radar in this way.

If Lit showed Registered User scores and Anonymous scores it would be really obvious if a story was getting malicious votes because there would be a huge gap between the scores.

This is a fascinating solution to the problem. Is there a delay between when you create an account and when you can start rating or would this just result in people creating fake email addresses and accounts to give malicious votes? I don't actually know how this mechanic works, but I'm interesting in thinking of ways that it could just no longer even be a potential issue like you suggest.

 

[cw5523729]

Likewise, they come in like clockwork

Same. I had 28 parts of a story posted and I could set my watch to when the 1-bomb would come in after each part was released. So at least I know someone cared enough to be very consistent about their hatred. Thanks, buddy!

 

[cw5523729]

And we know there are people pathetic enough to have alts here

No way!!