Stupid 1 votes

[SummerMorning]

Yes - another thread. Youg get a five, another five, a third five, a four - then suddenly a one and your story is down to 4.00. Then another 5 and it's up to 4.17.

Is it me, or is there some slight inconsistency here?

Perhaps a record of votes would help - that way stories that just get tanked by a few ones could still be noted... I don't know, maybe a vote distribution stat or something like that - a scatter chart?

Eh...

Just saying hello folks!

 

[cantdog]

You mean, I think, a histograph.

Like the bars in the polls at the top of sher's threads. This would show the number of 5's, 4's, or 1's , and enable someone to judge at a glance about 1-bombs.

Scatter charts are two-dimensional; would you expect a record also of who did the voting?

Other sites do that, histographs, I mean, dr_Mab said once. But they ain't as much fun in some other ways. It's a good improvement to suggest, say, to manu or whoever. I will if you will. But where do we want to see it? In the story heaeder when you first pull up Page One?

cantdog

 

[SummerMorning]

Not sure. Yeah, a histograph might work. I was thinking more along the lines of, besides the average, having a number denoting the distribution of votes - but you'd need to be a statistician to get that. So, a histogram might be a better idea...

...but you're right - where to put it? Alas, dog strike me if I know!

 

[gauchecritic]

Added in to your personal submissions page would be a good place.

Gauche

 

[cantdog]

Well, that's the point, isn't it? Who really needs the information? The distribution of votes is nice to know for your own peace of mind, as the author. But as a consumer hip to the 1-bomb phenomenon, it might be good to be able to handicap the rating with an awareness of how many bomb votes it incorporated.

For the one purpose, having it in the submissions page is good, but for the consumer, the story header might be better. dr_m didn't say where his other site put theirs, only that they had them.

cantdog

 

[Clare Quilty]

Perhaps a record of votes would help - that way stories that just get tanked by a few ones could still be noted... I don't know, maybe a vote distribution stat or something like that - a scatter chart?

Eh...

Just saying hello folks!

Perhaps they should employ the use of a weighted average to limit attempts by a few to torpedo a story. Posting the arithmetic mean as well as the median might not be a bad idea either.

weighted average

 

[Guest]

The one point bombings suck, but hey but look at this way.

My story "Ode to Literotica Authors ch2" Got just over 1,100 views, 7 votes and avarage of 4.42.

And it stuck there forever. It probably means about 10 people actually read till the end and seven of which voted.

I need three additional 5points votes for it to get the "H" mark. If I get two 5points votes and one 4points vote, my story will avarage 4.494 (no H mark by 0.001 point).

Brilliant.

 

[Dirty Slut]

Personally I think that no story posted here deserves a 1 vote. It takes guts to post a story in the first place, and the hosts wouldn't allow for crap to be posted anyway, they'd send it back to the author for editing. So my opinion in this matter is that all 1 votes be constantly erased as they are eithe mean spirited, or snerts bombing a story. But that's just my opinion.

DS

 

[cantdog]

Crap. Some one come in to read, without any kind of sophistication about our difficulties here about bombers, they see a five-point system.

They vote how they like.

Some of these could very easily be legitimate ignorami.

If ignorami is the word I'm looking for.


It would certainly improve everyuone's ratings to have a four-part rating system with a trap null vote.

Meanwhile, the persons here, hip to the system, bomb with twos?
http://no-troy.planetaclix.pt/images/mexico.gif

 

[Guest]

I have a story -

that in the past week I can tell someone has been systematically posting "1" votes. I wonder if I pissed somebody off on the boards (not that I give a rat's ass) but systematic bombing is always an interesting phenomenon.

The story posted well over a year ago. It scored well then and continues to do so now. Because it has so many votes it's going to take the idiots a long time to sufficiently bomb it. (And by the time any major damage is done I'm sure Laurel or Manu will notice and will fix it.)

I would love to see something like a histograph in the submission's page. It would give us definitive proof as to what the numbers really are. Maybe the voting could even be broken up by male/female, to give you a better idea how your stories appeal to readers.

 

[Dirty Slut]

Crap. Some one come in to read, without any kind of sophistication about our difficulties here about bombers, they see a five-point system.

They vote how they like.

Some of these could very easily be legitimate ignorami.

If ignorami is the word I'm looking for.


It would certainly improve everyuone's ratings to have a four-part rating system with a trap null vote.

Meanwhile, the persons here, hip to the system, bomb with twos?
http://no-troy.planetaclix.pt/images/mexico.gif

Actually, they don't have to bomb with two, or even threes, they can do it with 4's, and easily keep you down below 4.5, or at the least out of the running for any contest. Using 1's is just mean minded.

DS

 

[Guest]

Actually, they don't have to bomb with two, or even threes, they can do it with 4's, and easily keep you down below 4.5, or at the least out of the running for any contest. Using 1's is just mean minded.

DS

Yes, it is mean-minded.

And by the way, your ass is gorgeous.

 

[wishfulthinking]

Is it me, or is there some slight inconsistency here?

It must be about competition time, because all my May stories just got bombed We all get bombed, but when you go from 4.88 to 4.81 with one vote, and another went from 4.85 to 4.79, the inconsistency is that I would need about 20 '5' votes to get me back to where I was. Oh well, I will probably miss out on category nominations for both, but I'm tough

Edited to add: defintely a great ass!

 

[kinky shy girl]

Well, that's the point, isn't it? Who really needs the information? The distribution of votes is nice to know for your own peace of mind, as the author. But as a consumer hip to the 1-bomb phenomenon, it might be good to be able to handicap the rating with an awareness of how many bomb votes it incorporated.

Ah, 1-bomb phenomenon...so that's what it's called. I did notice that my first story's rating started out strong but then wavered later. I thought it was just me. Oh well, gotta have thick skin.

 

[SummerMorning]

Yeah, it's annoying - I mean, sure - my last story is brutal and bizarre - and I say as much! I warn the reader! It's nonhuman (though I'd have said mind-control) for crying out loud! It has blood and brainmatter besides other more usual liquids!

Now, I don't really mind someone posting "1" bombs (oh yes I bloody do... I know the language was ok, I know the story progressed decently, there is no way that deserved a 1. Sure, it might have been a horrible tale, but it wasn't horribly told - which is the only time I'd ever think of giving a one), but if it's just somebody disliking the story - why not post a message, hmm?

Yeah, a histograph would be neat. Medians as well.

 

[bg23]

Just like to mutter something about evil one voters...

They're just jealous!

Bah. My story went down from number one...am still distressed.

Damn bombers!

 

[SummerMorning]

We can always pretend that it's the 1 votes that are the true marks of greatness...

 

[psychocatblah]

I'm fairly new to this and certainly just now trying to understand this voting system... but perhaps there would be a way to purge the 1's with a significant number of other votes. Like say for every 5 votes you get over all, your lowest score is dropped and you're reaveraged? Or maybe that just gives us math geeks more to do.