Scores being deleted/modified

[MelissaBaby]

This thread is the funniest thing on here. Don't get too wrapped up in votes and scores. They are meaningless. People will tell you if your story is bad or good. If they like it they will usually come back to read again.

I see that you have quite a few stories with high scores. Congratulations. I do as well, and so I find it distasteful to mock others who are concerned with their scores.

 

[SimonDoom]

Sometimes votes get swept away at weird and unpredictable times. I've had over 200 votes swept from my stories in the last 48 hours, and most of the stories that were swept are more than 2 years old, and many of those votes, as far as I can tell, are old as well. I did not request a sweep, so that's not the reason. I just published a story for the first time in five months, so that might have something to do with it.

The weird thing? There was almost no impact on my story scores.

 

[jaF0]

Curious .... there's been a trend lately on the boards in at least some cases that when somebody gets booted, not only does the ID disappear, but so does all of their posts. It doesn't happen all the time, but it's happening more often.


If those IDs had gone to the story side and voted or commented, would those vanish as well?

 

[Enchantment_of_Nyx]

This is that old thread from a month ago from the OP who ranted and left the thread.
Don't know why it was dug up.

If those IDs had gone to the story side and voted or commented, would those vanish as well?

That would require Lit to keep a record of every vote a person ever made. That seems like a lot of unnecessary server usage. It would also be pretty creepy, so I hope that's not the case.

 

[MohanSingh]

I see that you have quite a few stories with high scores. Congratulations. I do as well, and so I find it distasteful to mock others who are concerned with their scores.

I did not mean to mock. People are reading too much in to scores. I know my stories need improving and some might have good scores and some bad but I only write to try and test myself and see if I can develop a story and make it meaningful. Just keep trying to improve and don't obsess over scores.

 

[MelissaBaby]

I did not mean to mock. People are reading too much in to scores. I know my stories need improving and some might have good scores and some bad but I only write to try and test myself and see if I can develop a story and make it meaningful. Just keep trying to improve and don't obsess over scores.

I m glad that you did not mean to mock the OP.

We get little validation writing here, and in most cases, no remuneration, so if people take pride in their scores, good for them.

 

[gunhilltrain]

I'm on another site that is much smaller (60,000 stories versus, what, a million or so here?) and they have a bigger staff. They will usually proofread your story and correct errors. It must have something to do with the available financial resources.

Literotica can't do that, and I accept that. It's still impressive how only two people can handle so much.

 

[KeithD]

I'm on another site that is much smaller (60,000 stories versus, what, a million or so here?) and they have a bigger staff. They will usually proofread your story and correct errors. It must have something to do with the available financial resources.

Literotica can't do that, and I accept that. It's still impressive how only two people can handle so much.

Do they let you review it again after they have "corrected" your "errors"? Do they have degrees in editing?

 

[lovecraft68]

I did not mean to mock. People are reading too much in to scores. I know my stories need improving and some might have good scores and some bad but I only write to try and test myself and see if I can develop a story and make it meaningful. Just keep trying to improve and don't obsess over scores.

I agree. There are people so obsessed with scores they are now writing based on what they think will hit all the sweet spots of whatever category, rather than write what they want to write.

There's a readership for everything here so regardless of what you write, people will find you, fav you read all your stories and give you good marks.

Writing what you want should come before fretting over red H or certain number of votes etc...

 

[lovecraft68]

This is that old thread from a month ago from the OP who ranted and left the thread.
Don't know why it was dug up.

A month is nothing, lately I've been seeing them bumped from years ago.

 

[Bramblethorn]

Has any other WRITER experience their scores on stories being deleted and/or modified? I usually keep track of the scores, the number of votes, and deduct what that vote value must have been (to come up with the new average score). HOWEVER, MULTIPLE TIMES the number of votes has mysteriously rolled back (as in DELETED by a moderator). I tested it out by voting on my stories. THOSE VOTES were deleted. There is a SJW who feels THEY and THEY ALONE can determine whether a story is VALID on this site based on their OWN WARPED views of reality.

Furthermore, what about the messages sent to the TEAM of moderators behind the scenes... I'm sure they are busy and can't reply to every message. But those messages that call into question the integrity of the entire website, you think would be important enough to reply to... I know as a computer engineering manager, that's my job to build these systems, write up the artifacts about the systems, and even train the customer on how to use the system.

I am now trying to imagine the career of a "computer engineering manager" whose first response to an unexplained behaviour from an unfamiliar system is to blame it on "SJWs".

"My document won't print!"
"Probably caused by Marxists stealing the toner."
"Now I get an 'out of memory' error."
"That means your hard drive is full of millennial snowflakes."

Oh well, it's a new one for the BOFH Excuses Calendar.

 

[Emirus]

Antonio Sanova’s favourite stories.

As nothing had been heard of Antonio Sanova for a while I thought, out of boredom, I’d look him up to see if he had favourited any stories and, if so, were they by any writers on this thread or others to get some idea of what he likes to read.

He’s got 17 stories favourited and they are all written by him!

 

[lovecraft68]

As nothing had been heard of Antonio Sanova for a while I thought, out of boredom, I’d look him up to see if he had favourited any stories and, if so, were they by any writers on this thread or others to get some idea of what he likes to read.

He’s got 17 stories favourited and they are all written by him!

Maybe he's a KeithD alt

 

[Omenainen]

I don’t get why anyone would favorite their own story? I get voting for your own, although I think that’s a bit weird as well, but why favorite?

 

[lovecraft68]

I don’t get why anyone would favorite their own story? I get voting for your own, although I think that’s a bit weird as well, but why favorite?

I guess the same reason you'd vote on your own, to bump it up.

But to vote on your own, especially early, has a strategy. You need 10 votes for a red H and if you get it, more people will read the story, so it can help your cause. I don't do it, but I can see why some would.

But the fav story list isn't something that's easy to get onto and one isn't going to help.

I think the worst is people who comment on their stories as anon or an alt. I've seen that a few times over the years. That's about as lame as it can get.

 

[Omenainen]

I guess the same reason you'd vote on your own, to bump it up.

But to vote on your own, especially early, has a strategy. You need 10 votes for a red H and if you get it, more people will read the story, so it can help your cause. I don't do it, but I can see why some would.

But the fav story list isn't something that's easy to get onto and one isn't going to help.

I think the worst is people who comment on their stories as anon or an alt. I've seen that a few times over the years. That's about as lame as it can get.

Okay, I didn’t even know there is a fav story list. I read about that voting for your own early -strategy and it sorta makes sense, but I still don’t do it.

But to each their own. If it’s easier for someone to converse with their inner demons via a literotica story comments section, who am I to judge.

 

[Emirus]

I think the worst is people who comment on their stories as anon or an alt. I've seen that a few times over the years. That's about as lame as it can get.

I do wonder if there are writers with a perverse sense of humour who leave an anonymous comment saying their story is crap and then leave another anonymous comment defending the story and saying it’s brilliant. After all there are writers with a weird mind. You only have to read their stories. lol.

 

[KeithD]

I don’t get why anyone would favorite their own story? I get voting for your own, although I think that’s a bit weird as well, but why favorite?

It might be done as a more permanent answer to a thread question posed on the discussion board occasionally of "What is you own favorite story of what you've written?" but it's probably not generally recognized as such by readers.

I've wondered if favoriting a story is somehow shown to readers in the hub or something, because I've noticed that sometimes when a reader favorites an old story of mine, the same day some other reader will favorite it as well. If favoriting shows up to readers just tooling through the hubs, I don't know how, but I've wondered if that does happen.

 

[Omenainen]

It might be done as a more permanent answer to a thread question posed on the discussion board occasionally of "What is you own favorite story of what you've written?"

Nooooo but how can you possibly favor one or your babies over the others! (Just kidding, it’s easy).

 

[KeithD]

Nooooo but how can you possibly favor one or your babies over the others! (Just kidding, it’s easy).

No, it isn't, and I don't. I do, the rare times I think about it, wonder why readers prefer one I don't over another that I do, but I don't dwell on the issue.

 

[29wordsforsnow]

Strange, after recognizing that an accidently self-rate (too easy to land on a star while scrolling the page on a smartphone) was removed - yeah, no more bad conscience! - I realized that most of my ratings from a certain period in June/July have gone. Especially artworks and non-erotic poems are seldom rated by the community, so I'm quite sad to see my appreciation for these works gone/lost. Older and more recent ratings weren't affected *shrug*

 

[EruditePerve]

Writing is an art, whether good, bad or indifferent.

Writing, even erotic writing, is art. Good artists paint or write what pleases them. Others who subsequently show appreciation are, of course, welcome but not necessary. The joy lies in the writing; praise from others is a bonus.

As for scores, who cares? I have read some of the work that has high scores and I have been puzzled. The quality of some of the highly rated work is so bad that I can only assume the writers (who must have lot's of free time on their hands) are manipulating their own scores. I guess now that VPN is widely available it isn't difficult to praise yourself from a multitude of different IP's.

Be all that as it may I have enjoyed writing stories and if a few have gained pleasure from reading them I am satisfied.

Now I must get back to my writing of the great American novel.

 

[Sammael Bard]

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