The Official Valentine’s Day Contest Support Thread 2026

[MelissaBaby]

If you don't make the top three, don't think of it as losing. Think of it as maintaining your eligibility for the next contest.

 

[RoyalAuthor]

https://www.literotica.com/c/exhibitionist-voyeur

Let me focus on my half written April Fools entry before I jump to Nude Day.

 

[IdahoExec]

https://www.literotica.com/c/exhibitionist-voyeur

And Ms. Miller wins the Golden Groaner trophy for worst, subtle pun of the day.

 

[SmilingLez]

So today, February 13th, we should find out the winners of the Valentine's Day contest. Does anyone have any predictions based on actual posted data?

 

[Voboy]

Another sweep has gone through.

So today, February 13th, we should find out the winners of the Valentine's Day contest. Does anyone have any predictions based on actual posted data?

Oh no. Predictions are both unwise and completely devoid of even the pretense of accuracy.

Unwise because any such prediction would draw HIGHLY unwanted attention, and devoid because the final sweeps will be very, very deep and completely unpredictably applied.

We have no idea.

 

[old_prof]

I saw that as well. My story (not for this contest) that started out in the 2’s is now well into the 4.9s. Now with a very low vote total

 

[SmilingLez]

I guess not everybody was swept. My score still remains unchanged.

 

[YmaOHyd]

I guess not everybody was swept. My score still remains unchanged.

Mine as well.

 

[IdahoExec]

It appears that a sweep finally caught my entry. A handful of votes vanished, and the score popped up to 4.75. If I was going to wager based on what others have said, I doubt we'll see posted contest results earlier than midnight Eastern. It appears the Literotica staff gremlins are very busy behind the scenes even now.

 

[old_prof]

It's not by user, it's by story? Maybe? Despite one non-contest story getting swept, I have two stories that got bombed at about the same time that were not yet swept (or may not be getting swept).

One of my stories that got hit clearly Wednesday night has not been touched, despite getting three 1's around midnight that night. It hasn't even lost it's birthmark 1.

Another (older) story lost two 1's but still has a bunch more (it got 6 Wednesday night as well).

 

[SmilingLez]

Seems like the main Literotica page is f'd up. It lists the date as February the 14th and is still allowing voting for the Valentine's Day contest

 

[MelissaBaby]

So today, February 13th, we should find out the winners of the Valentine's Day contest. Does anyone have any predictions based on actual posted data?

The late sweep makes ratings very volatile. Scores can change radically, it's not uncommon for stories to jump from the mid fours to the top of the list.

 

[IdahoExec]

Seems like the main Literotica page is f'd up. It lists the date as February the 14th and is still allowing voting for the Valentine's Day contest

And are you surprised? Would that be unprecedented?

 

[old_prof]

Seems like the main Literotica page is f'd up. It lists the date as February the 14th and is still allowing voting for the Valentine's Day contest

I don't think voting ever gets turned off (I could be wrong). I had seen once upon a time that winners would be announced tomorrow (Valentine's Day), which makes sense.

I would probably turn off voting on my own story if I won another time, at least for a few days. It took about three months to recover half of the damage done from the 1-bombs that came in that afternoon. It never got the rest of the way back.

 

[RoyalAuthor]

Just had my catalog swept. The only story I had (not contest) that had lost it's red H to trolls just got it back, albeit barely. Most of my stories saw positive movement.

 

[Voboy]

It's not by user, it's by story? Maybe? Despite one non-contest story getting swept, I have two stories that got bombed at about the same time that were not yet swept (or may not be getting swept).

One of my stories that got hit clearly Wednesday night has not been touched, despite getting three 1's around midnight that night. It hasn't even lost it's birthmark 1.

Another (older) story lost two 1's but still has a bunch more (it got 6 Wednesday night as well).

With the greatest and most world-weary kindness I can muster, I just have to remind all of us that speculating about this process is just simply useless.

I'm a veteran of countless contests here, and all of them have reinforced the same lesson: in terms of scoring, chance rules. We will never know the process by which the winners are determined, we will never understand how the sweeps strike (or fail to strike), and in the end we're at the mercy of forces beyond our control.

Fortunately for me, I've always been comfortable with ambiguity. I always advise others here to try to assume the same viewpoint.

 

[Voboy]

I would probably turn off voting on my own story if I won another time, at least for a few days. It took about three months to recover half of the damage done from the 1-bombs that came in that afternoon. It never got the rest of the way back.

Same thing happens to all winners. I never worried about it because it's my firm belief that although the story is never quite as bad as the one-bombers think it is, neither is it quite as good as the sweeps inflate it to be. I think its score at the unknown moment when the contest ends is artificially high.

 

[RoyalAuthor]

False. Every one of my stories is a perfect masterpiece deserving of a perfect score. Even the ones that suck.

 

[old_prof]

Same thing happens to all winners. I never worried about it because it's my firm belief that although the story is never quite as bad as the one-bombers think it is, neither is it quite as good as the sweeps inflate it to be. I think its score at the unknown moment when the contest ends is artificially high.

The next almost 300 votes for my winning story had a slightly higheraverage (considered on their own) than my winning score.Once it got back into the leaderboard, it took the requisite damage and disappeared. Short of 1-bombs that are very predictable (right after the W was announced and when it's high on the leaderboard) it seems to have a "true" rating in the 4.9's. So at least for that story, I don't think your surmise is true.

 

[IdahoExec]

False. Every one of my stories is a perfect masterpiece deserving of a perfect score. Even the ones that suck.

Mildly frustrated, are we?

 

[ElectricBlue]

I guess not everybody was swept. My score still remains unchanged.

Everyone gets swept. Your story may not have had dodgy votes, is all "no movement in score" means.

 

[MelissaBaby]

Seems like the main Literotica page is f'd up. It lists the date as February the 14th and is still allowing voting for the Valentine's Day contest

Technically, the cut off is supposed to be at Midnight tonight, which would mean the winners would be announced on the 14th.

 

[SmilingLez]

Everyone gets swept. Your story may not have had dodgy votes, is all "no movement in score" means.

How can an automated tool distinguish between a person giving one star to a story they actually read and hated and one person being a troll one bomber and not even reading the story?

 

[MelissaBaby]

With the greatest and most world-weary kindness I can muster, I just have to remind all of us that speculating about this process is just simply useless.

I'm a veteran of countless contests here, and all of them have reinforced the same lesson: in terms of scoring, chance rules. We will never know the process by which the winners are determined, we will never understand how the sweeps strike (or fail to strike), and in the end we're at the mercy of forces beyond our control.

Fortunately for me, I've always been comfortable with ambiguity. I always advise others here to try to assume the same viewpoint.

Exactly. A story could get a one vote removed by a sweep five minutes before the contest ends and move into first place, then get another one vote to push it back down. The final results are a snapshot which could look very different if taken just a minute or two earlier or later.

 

[IdahoExec]

With the greatest and most world-weary kindness I can muster, I just have to remind all of us that speculating about this process is just simply useless.

I'm a veteran of countless contests here, and all of them have reinforced the same lesson: in terms of scoring, chance rules. We will never know the process by which the winners are determined, we will never understand how the sweeps strike (or fail to strike), and in the end we're at the mercy of forces beyond our control.

Fortunately for me, I've always been comfortable with ambiguity. I always advise others here to try to assume the same viewpoint.

It would seem the Literotica gremlin voting process is well beyond our ability to parse and understand. Alas.