The SCOURIES reader – for both fans and serious scholars…

[scouries]

I’m james r scouries esq., welcome to my world

[SIZE=+4]ScouriesWorld[/SIZE]​

LITEROTICA’S 5 FAVORITEST AUTHORS as of April 19th 2011

1.Slickman (2457)
2.Many Feathers (2435)
[size=+2]3.scouries (2225)
4.BarondeSade (2224)
5.alwayswantedto (2214)

Listen, I know the baron and alwayswantedto will repass me pretty soon but I just couldn't resist - this is the highest I've ever risen on this list...

I guess I'm not on everybody's ignore list![/SIZE]​

[size=+2]james r scouries esq.[/size]
Multiple A.I.R. AWARD winner, MILLION SELLER,
Author of the MOST COMMENTED on
and the MOST VOTED on story on LITEROTICA

 

[Darkniciad]

That's the best you've got, scouries? A squawk of "cheater" and more meaningless numbers?

It ain't even worth the effort, but all you have to do is count how many posts you've made to your threads, compared the number of people who've bothered to comment, and it's pretty easy to puzzle out where a lot of the "big numbers" you generate here come from.

2148 You + Gabby Alt
1536 BFW + Alts
595 sarahhh, not even counting alts
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4279
of
9776

I'm sure hotmail is just overjoyed with all the throwaway accounts you've created to get on that list and scramble to stay ahead of the actual popular authors who are still here, and not making hundreds of thousands of dollars in the real world markets.

That's real dollars, and not monopoly money "royalties", by the way.

 

[TxRad]

[SIZE=+4]Yeah!!!! Welcome to ScouriesFantasyWorld[/SIZE]

Where Scouries ego is the one and only thing that counts.

 

[scouries]

I‘d suggest you graph it darkboy!

The sad thing about you is that you know better. It’s easy to ignore people like miss hick or the dumb Texan because they don’t know any better. There’s simply no intelligence or even awareness of the issues. It’s far over their intellectual capacity. You can ignore them and leave them to the likes of young Jerome and his girlfriend.

But you grasp the issue here. In fact you were a loud voice in the debate when the decision to ban chapters from themed contests was first made.

And you understood why that decision was made. Quite simply, as all of us know, later chapters of stories have a huge advantage over new, totally original stories. You’ve gotten rid of the people who don’t like the story while building up a group of readers who like it very much.

And whether you call it a chapter or a serial or a stand alone story based on previous stories the advantage is the same. We all know it. In fact you conceded it when you posted that “fans” start emailing you early in the year asking about the cut and paste “sequel”. And then you email this small group of fans once its submitted and ask them to read and vote on it.

The QUEEN has allowed you to skirt the rule but you know in your heart of hearts that you’re cheating. And so does everyone else.

It’s time to man up darkboy.

If you want to enter future contests do it honestly. ​

jrs esq

darkboy's infamous record of cheating - a true embarrassment to the site that's allowed him to post his stories:

Steward of the Wood 04/02/07
Daughter of the Wood 03/28/08
Forever of the Wood 04/08/09
Secret of the Wood 03/28/10
Kindred of the Wood 09/04/10
Heart of the Wood 04/12/11

 

[Darkniciad]

The only thing you're proving is that you haven't read word one of any of them, scouries.

Either that, or you don't have the faintest concept of what a chapter is.

Not to mention that your "spirit of the rule" is complete fiction I've debunked that so many times that I'm not even going to waste my breath again. Not as if anyone could see it here in your land of make-believe anyhow. They all have you on ignore *laugh*

 

[michchick98]

Funny how you're the only one who puts any merit into that list at all. Most of the people on it don't even realize it exists. Hell, if you hadn't been taught how to bookmark it, you probably wouldn't know where it was either. You're the only one who seems to care about where you place on the list on a FREE porn site.

How's that real world publishing career going for you, scouries?

 

[sr71plt]

Just because Scouries is using the "Favorite Authors" list doesn't make it a bad list. I think it's a much more reliable list for a reader looking for an author to follow than anything else going on the Web site. I can see where an author who hasn't made the top 250 would not follow the list until they do make it. But I certainly look at it from time to time, hoping I'll make that last little surge to the top 100.

Not everyone on that list manipulated their way on to/up it. I'd suggest that most didn't. A lot of good authors near the top of that list. I think it's shame that it's tucked away where new readers won't find it.

 

[scouries]

you're right ace...

... this promise was made about three years ago!!

If you haven't picked your favorite authors and stories, now would be a great time. We're getting ready to launch the Favorite's Portal - here's a sneak peek.

Not sure why it hasn't appeared here yet:

Erotic Stories

New - Stories added in the last few days. (561)
Top Lists - Our most popular stories, poetry, and pics. (208715)
Feedback Portal - Read the latest comments on Lit submissions.
Story Series - Browse longer multi-part stories by category. (NEW)
Earth Day Story Contest - Read & vote on this special contest!
Author Index - Select stories by your favorite writer.
Favorites Portal - Scouries is here!

jrs esq

 

[YoursSINSerely]

It's so nice to see two men finally getting along together.

 

[scouries]

I’ve been trying to ignore these monthly results this year. But when I saw today’s announcement I decided to check out what’s been winning. The one good thing about these prizes is at least the PALACE is working to announce them in a more timely manner.

Besides that it just more of the same – chaptered stories from less popular categories somehow become “READER’S CHOICES”. ​

Congratulations to the August 2010 Reader's Choice Award Winners!

1. Tinkle Bell Ch. 21 / Many Feathers FETISH

2. New Kingdom: European Court Ch. 04 / MicKay NON HUMAN

3.No Regrets Ch. 05 / nem0 GAY

Congratulations to the July 2010 Reader's Choice Award Winners!

1. Promises, Rules and Their Breaking / adam applebiter EC

2. The Trail West Ch. 05 / woodmanone NOVELS

3. Talon Ch. 15 / Cedar_Needle NON HUMAN

Congratulations to the June 2010 Reader's Choice Award Winners!

1. A Daemon-Horn Blade Ch. 25 & Epilogue / Stultus SCI-FI

2. Davy's On The Road Again Ch. 15 / oldhippie1949 GROUP

3.Two Hearts Stand Alone Pt. 02 / photodad ROMANCE

Congratulations to the May 2010 Reader's Choice Award Winners!

1. Nos Faux Ratu Ch. 03 / Evil Alpaca SCI-FI

2. The Dom of My Dreams Ch. 14 / Mini_Sinclair BDSM

3. Dancing In The Rain Ch. 04 / strickland83 ROMANCE

Congratulations to the April 2010 Reader's Choice Award Winners!

1. Enchanting the Flower Ch. 16 / SecretFantasy69 SCI-FI???

2. Neuro Submission Transmitter Ch. 05 / samslam INCEST

3. Any Chance We Could Ch. 33 / Reindeer58 GROUP

Congratulations to the March 2010 Reader's Choice Award Winners!

1. Country Boy Ch. 02 / robcub32 GAY

2. Vampires and Lovers Ch. 06 / Pelaam GAY

3. The Spirit Girl Ch. 02 / DrSqueaky ROMANCE

laurel????

Enchanting the Flower Ch 16 doesn’t seem to be up on the site anymore but earlier chapters that remain are Sci-Fi stories.

Out of the 18 winners all but one were later chapters of stories that had been started earlier. And we all know the reason why.

5 winners came from SCI-FI/NON HUMAN and 3 came from both ROMANCE and GAY. In other words about two thirds of our supposed ‘reader’s choices’ came from these marginal, little read categories.​

[size=+2]james r scouries esq.[/size]
Multiple A.I.R. AWARD winner, MILLION SELLER,
Author of the MOST COMMENTED on
and the MOST VOTED on story on LITEROTICA

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

 

[scouries]

More silliness!!!!!!!! Chapters of stories from less popular categories with few views, favorites or comments declared “READER’S CHOICE WINNERS”.

Let’s all hope that the QUEEN gets her act together for the 2011 monthly contests.

Congratulations to the September 2010 Reader's Choice Award Winners!

First Place :
The Cellar Ch. 05 / jiskitten NON HUMAN 5052 views, 2 favorites, 5 comments (under 70 votes)

Second Place :
I Read A Lot Ch. 04 / lill_street_writer GAY 9921 views, 6 favorites, 14 comments (chapter #1 was rated 4.44)

Third Place:
Hunting the Hunter Ch. 05 / Enithermon CELEBS 4477 views, 0 favorites, 7comments (under 70 votes)

[size=+2]james r scouries esq.[/size]
Multiple A.I.R. AWARD winner, MILLION SELLER,
Author of the MOST COMMENTED on
and the MOST VOTED on story on LITEROTICA

 

[lovecraft68]

More silliness!!!!!!!! Chapters of stories from less popular categories with few views, favorites or comments declared “READER’S CHOICE WINNERS”.

Let’s all hope that the QUEEN gets her act together for the 2011 monthly contests.

Congratulations to the September 2010 Reader's Choice Award Winners!

First Place :
The Cellar Ch. 05 / jiskitten NON HUMAN 5052 views, 2 favorites, 5 comments (under 70 votes)

Second Place :
I Read A Lot Ch. 04 / lill_street_writer GAY 9921 views, 6 favorites, 14 comments (chapter #1 was rated 4.44)

Third Place:
Hunting the Hunter Ch. 05 / Enithermon CELEBS 4477 views, 0 favorites, 7comments (under 70 votes)

[size=+2]james r scouries esq.[/size]
Multiple A.I.R. AWARD winner, MILLION SELLER,
Author of the MOST COMMENTED on
and the MOST VOTED on story on LITEROTICA

So I have to say this is kind of strange. There had to be a ton of stories even within the sam categories that had more views, votes, comments and "favs". How do they determine the winners? Is it literally the choice of Laurel or is there supposed to be a formula?

 

[scouries]

How is a “READER’S CHOICE” monthly winner chosen?

Well…

First off it can’t have been read by many people…

Or have received many comments…

Or votes…

Or have been ‘favorited’ by many readers…

No, these pretty obvious measures of our “READER’S CHOICES” are ignored under the present regime.

Instead our good QUEEN utilizes the old adage “LESS IS MORE” when picking the winners.

laurel?

Yes she ultimately picks them. And invariably they are chapters (not stories) that come from unpopular categories that have been written by her friends.

The formula you asked for is can be shown as follows:

Winner= 5%(unpopular category) + 5%(chaptered story) + 90%(ass kissing)

Sad really. It’s the main reason A.I.R. was born.
​

[size=+2]james r scouries esq.[/size]
Multiple A.I.R. AWARD winner, MILLION SELLER,
Author of the MOST COMMENTED on
and the MOST VOTED on story on LITEROTICA

 

[TxRad]

So I have to say this is kind of strange. There had to be a ton of stories even within the sam categories that had more views, votes, comments and "favs". How do they determine the winners? Is it literally the choice of Laurel or is there supposed to be a formula?

The monthly winners are the highest scoring story of the month in each category. It is as simple as that. Views, votes, comments, and favorites have nothing to do with it. Just more of Scouries sour grapes and bullshit to discredit the owner of the site.

He has never won even a monthly contest in his only category, Incest. He has also never won a year end award, even though he keeps nominating himself. He has never won a Theme contest. He has never won anything and it chaps his ass. He promotes himself as Lit's number one author but can't cut the mustard so to speak.

So it's all sour grapes and bruised ego. Although as big as he ego is, it would take a Mack truck to do the job.

 

[elfin_odalisque]

Not quite TX. To be eligible, a story must have accrued at least 50 votes in the month in question. That's double the number required for the themed contests. Then it's down to highest scores.

Perhaps the idea of quality rather than quantity is a concept that is beyond the intellectual capability of scouries.

 

[TxRad]

Not quite TX. To be eligible, a story must have accrued at least 50 votes in the month in question. That's double the number required for the themed contests. Then it's down to highest scores.

Perhaps the idea of quality rather than quantity is a concept that is beyond the intellectual capability of scouries.

Yes, you are right, 50 votes to be eligible but a higher vote count than that means nothing.

Scouries problem is he can't see over or around his own bloated ego.

 

[elfin_odalisque]

Yes, you are right, 50 votes to be eligible but a higher vote count than that means nothing.

Scouries problem is he can't see over or around his own bloated ego.

Sad but true.

What amuses me is how he peppers this site with dubious statistics like a backward ten-year-old boy inventing numbers to prove why his favorite baseball team should have been in the playoffs, then calls foul at the rather democratic system on lit that follows the Kentucky Derby - first past the post wins in monthly and themed contests.

I cannot see why a highly-rated series that has readers following progress avidly is any more unworthy than trading on awareness of an author's name to the disadvantage of lesser-known writers.

As you say TX, his intelligence by-pass has blinded him to the fact that journeymen incest writers win few golden prizes. He's just a pimple on the boil on the hippopotamus's backside - irritating but not significant.

 

[lovecraft68]

The monthly winners are the highest scoring story of the month in each category. It is as simple as that. Views, votes, comments, and favorites have nothing to do with it. Just more of Scouries sour grapes and bullshit to discredit the owner of the site.

He has never won even a monthly contest in his only category, Incest. He has also never won a year end award, even though he keeps nominating himself. He has never won a Theme contest. He has never won anything and it chaps his ass. He promotes himself as Lit's number one author but can't cut the mustard so to speak.

So it's all sour grapes and bruised ego. Although as big as he ego is, it would take a Mack truck to do the job.

So if a story only has say 20 votes and it's a 4.9+ it will win out over a story with say hundreds of votes but is a 4.8? That would explain why chapter stories win frequently. By the time you go through several chapters it's only your regulars reading it so you get very few low scores.

I have a story in the 4.9 range but it only has 28 votes. Honestly I'm happier with the ones that are in the 4.7's but with a couple of hundred votes. Have to be honest seems like that system could use some tweaking.

 

[TxRad]

Sad but true.

As you say TX, his intelligence by-pass has blinded him to the fact that journeymen incest writers win few golden prizes.

That is another reason he is pissed at me. His alter ego, Sarahhh challenged me to write a better Incest story than either of him. I did. It won a monthly and the year end award. That really pissed him off. Beat by his worse enemy in his one and only category.

So if a story only has say 20 votes and it's a 4.9+ it will win out over a story with say hundreds of votes but is a 4.8? That would explain why chapter stories win frequently. By the time you go through several chapters it's only your regulars reading it so you get very few low scores.

I have a story in the 4.9 range but it only has 28 votes. Honestly I'm happier with the ones that are in the 4.7's but with a couple of hundred votes. Have to be honest seems like that system could use some tweaking.

The system was set up in something like 1999 and is still in effect. I think the management is under the notion that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. They have been forced to deal with cheating. Originally, the idea was to have fun. If you won then so be it. If you cheat to win, then you haven't won anything. Scouries and his ilk don't understand that.

You asked about sweeps on another thread. Scouries, his alts, and a few others like him are the reason for the sweeps. They started to twist the numbers, read that as cheating, to the point where something had to be done. The sweeps are the result. If you want to dig back through a bunch of scouries crap, he was driven crazy trying to find out how the sweeps worked so he could get his bots changed so he could be the fake king of the site. This campaign of his against the contests is just an extension of that craziness.

Damn, there is actually an intelligent conversation going on in this cesspool.

 

[lovecraft68]

That is another reason he is pissed at me. His alter ego, Sarahhh challenged me to write a better Incest story than either of him. I did. It won a monthly and the year end award. That really pissed him off. Beat by his worse enemy in his one and only category.



The system was set up in something like 1999 and is still in effect. I think the management is under the notion that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. They have been forced to deal with cheating. Originally, the idea was to have fun. If you won then so be it. If you cheat to win, then you haven't won anything. Scouries and his ilk don't understand that.

You asked about sweeps on another thread. Scouries, his alts, and a few others like him are the reason for the sweeps. They started to twist the numbers, read that as cheating, to the point where something had to be done. The sweeps are the result. If you want to dig back through a bunch of scouries crap, he was driven crazy trying to find out how the sweeps worked so he could get his bots changed so he could be the fake king of the site. This campaign of his against the contests is just an extension of that craziness.

Damn, there is actually an intelligent conversation going on in this cesspool.

You know the thing that sucks is that of course this stuff should be fun. I mean we don;'t get paid to write here (except for Scouries and his royalties) and the contests 1st prizes are not exactly enough money to make it that big of a deal.

Problem is like with anything else where there are humans there will be stupidity and cheating. I've been here a year now and it blows my mind that people create Alts to favorite themselves and pad there scores. I mean at the end of the day you know it's not true what the hell is the point? Who are you impressing?

I won;t enter a contest because honestly, although I don;t take the scores to heart, I don;t feel like getting beat up on just because I'm not a writer that another person wants to win.

I mean if I put up a story and some people say it sucks that's fine but I want it to be because they really think it sucks. I don;t want to get a 3. whatever because someones 10 alts gave one one bombs to help their cause. I mean don;t get me wrong I write incest so I do have some trolls of my own but don't need to be swarmed and I think that keeps a lot of people out of the contests. Not worth the headaches.

On the note of contests TX you seem to know a lot about how things are run here. What the hell happened with the 12th annual awards? Looking at the categories I keep seeing different dates for when the voting starts 4/1 4/15 and 5/1 all have come and gone and nothing.

I have to say I was kind of excited because the male character in my series was nominated for sexiest male and from my rough count came out not only with enough nom's to make top 4 but was the highest. tell you what though I even saw the bullshit there as well especially in the influential author thread bickering and Alt's high school stupidity.

I write in the incest category which outside of its own category is pretty reviled by the "high brow" writers around here and I was looking forward to a chance at winning. It looked like I would be up against 3 Jaz Cullen "vampires" so chances would be slim but still cool to be recognized for something but it seems to have dropped. Does this usually happen? Will they just post it when they get around to it?

 

[elfin_odalisque]

Lovecraft, from what I see on Laurel's Awards & Contests forum, the 12th annual awards are still open for nominations. Don't give up hope before voting has started. You're not yet a hanging chad.

TX (or drk if he's reading), surely 'alts' voting only applies to things like the annual awards? On the site only IP addresses control votes. My SO complains he often doesn't get a chance to vote because I've beaten him to it. Aren't the sweeps in contests more to eliminate troll votes?

Considering the slowness of scouries to master the 101 of posting to the site, was he really capable of masterminding a web of fictitious IP addresses?

On contests, lovecraft, I think you worry too much. Sure, a few years back there seemed to be a bit of a magic circle of AHers voting for each other but they have moved on as the site expands and the list of winners' lists seem more and more eclectic. Why not give Nude Day a run? Seems to me the ideal contest for an incest story. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.

Going on a bit but, so what? I think we fail to appreciate the site's objectives. Surely, everything they put in place is just to give publicity to lesser-known writers: not altruistic because their commercial success depends on an ever-expanding visitor footprint.

The themed and monthly contests, the red 'H''s, the annual awards and the survivor contest are a way to give lesser-known writers a bit of a boost - if they have some talent. The aim is to generate as much activity and footprint as possible. The change in the voting system a while back was aimed at reducing the number of red 'hots'. Why? If you are faced with over 2,000 new stories a month a reader has to be picky.

 

[lovecraft68]

Lovecraft, from what I see on Laurel's Awards & Contests forum, the 12th annual awards are still open for nominations. Don't give up hope before voting has started. You're not yet a hanging chad.

TX (or drk if he's reading), surely 'alts' voting only applies to things like the annual awards? On the site only IP addresses control votes. My SO complains he often doesn't get a chance to vote because I've beaten him to it. Aren't the sweeps in contests more to eliminate troll votes?

Considering the slowness of scouries to master the 101 of posting to the site, was he really capable of masterminding a web of fictitious IP addresses?

On contests, lovecraft, I think you worry too much. Sure, a few years back there seemed to be a bit of a magic circle of AHers voting for each other but they have moved on as the site expands and the list of winners' lists seem more and more eclectic. Why not give Nude Day a run? Seems to me the ideal contest for an incest story. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.

Going on a bit but, so what? I think we fail to appreciate the site's objectives. Surely, everything they put in place is just to give publicity to lesser-known writers: not altruistic because their commercial success depends on an ever-expanding visitor footprint.

The themed and monthly contests, the red 'H''s, the annual awards and the survivor contest are a way to give lesser-known writers a bit of a boost - if they have some talent. The aim is to generate as much activity and footprint as possible. The change in the voting system a while back was aimed at reducing the number of red 'hots'. Why? If you are faced with over 2,000 new stories a month a reader has to be picky.

I don't know where you see nominations still open if you look at every category thread Laurel closed the Nominations on 2/28. In her opening thread about the 12th annuals she says voting to start 5/1. I was not here for the 11th or maybe i was (I started writing here 5/2010 but did not even start looking at the forums until months later so no clue what happened last year.

I'm just wondering why they put a date if they are not going to bother following up.

On another note looking at the categories I have to say that "Lit fans" are pretty damn lazy there are authors who are on 1,000 plus favorite pages and their characters received few nominations in any of the categories. You would think the least these people could do for someone who provides entertainment for them is take 30 seconds to vote fro them.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

 

[scouries]

He's just a pimple on the boil on the hippopotamus's backside

Please miss o, I’d prefer not to “IGNORE” you – you’re too amusing. So please don’t quote the retards.

Thanks,

jim