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[Boxlicker101]

Laurel must have cleaned out the one bombs. Now it has 79 votes with a 4.65 average. Only 9,649 views. That's one of the highest votes per view I have ever had.

 

[cloudy]

Talk about cleaning house!

I lost 13 votes, but I'm not complaining. And the story that was in first place Things That Go Hump in the Night, lost right around 200 votes.

Amazing.

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

WHOA, NELLIE!

The Hump just got bumped, big time, didn't it Cloudy?

The Halloween contest juggernaut known as "Things That Go Hump in the Night" has just taken a major bump. The last time I checked, it had a virtually unsurmountable lead, with 340 votes and and a score of 4.83.

This morning, the Hump has been bumped down to 132 votes and a score of 4.66. Obviously, Laurel has done a serious sweep.

While 4.66 is still a good score, it trails way behind EH contest stories by several real, and really good, AH writers and is within a few points of ones by some other genuine AH writers.

The Presidential election now has nothing on the Literotica Halloween contest.

Rumple Foreskin

 

[impressive]

I read at least one story, voted and left a PC for all the authors on AH so I feel allright about that also.

Missed me

(and remind me if I missed you -- 'cause I'm still working my way through the list)

 

[Boxlicker101]

Re: WHOA, NELLIE!

The Hump just got bumped, big time, didn't it Cloudy?

The Halloween contest juggernaut known as "Things That Go Hump in the Night" has just taken a major bump. The last time I checked, it had a virtually unsurmountable lead, with 340 votes and and a score of 4.83.

This morning, the Hump has been bumped down to 132 votes and a score of 4.66. Obviously, Laurel has done a serious sweep.

While 4.66 is still a good score, it trails way behind EH contest stories by Cloudy (4.87/38 votes), Dr. Mabeus (4.83/41 votes), The Mutt (4.78/36 votes), and Lucifer Carroll (4.75/51 votes) and is within a few points of ones by other real writers such as Boxlicker, Dranoel, Colleen Thomas, and Oggbashan.

The Presidential election now has nothing on the Literotica Halloween contest.

Rumple Foreskin

I'm not surprised to read that. I didn't believe that anybody could get that many legitimate votes in such a short peiod of time. Even 132 votes is a lot, far more than most regular writers.

 

[Lucifer_Carroll]

Missed me

(and remind me if I missed you -- 'cause I'm still working my way through the list)

He missed me as well as did you, but it's all right. This contest has been amazingly rewarding and I'm amazed that I'm this much in the race.

Death of the Party has been the first of my "stroke" stories I have shown to a non-stroke audience and has been my favorite piece so far that I've written for this site not counting All Hallow's Eve. That alone is worth far more than the contest part of this contest.

P.S. What the Hell did the guy do to lose that many votes? Change accounts and vote like crazy on speed cycle or something?

 

[Wicked-N-Erotic]

Add me to the list

Mine took a dive in score and votes as well. I'm still pleased with what I have, 4.35 rating - 71 votes - and 39432 views, I really didn't expect to do as well as it has being my first try at an incest story and it being borderline non-consent.

I'm afraid that I won't be able to get to reading all of the entries until after Halloween though , too much going on in real life right now. Of the few I did get to I believe I left PC's. Great work from so many


Wicked

 

[Boxlicker101]

He missed me as well as did you, but it's all right. This contest has been amazingly rewarding and I'm amazed that I'm this much in the race.

Death of the Party has been the first of my "stroke" stories I have shown to a non-stroke audience and has been my favorite piece so far that I've written for this site not counting All Hallow's Eve. That alone is worth far more than the contest part of this contest.

P.S. What the Hell did the guy do to lose that many votes? Change accounts and vote like crazy on speed cycle or something?

You and Inp were both right but I have corrected that now. I still have one more to go, though. I had started to read "All Halow's Eve" but it was too much of a downer so I stopped and didn't vote or leave a PC.

 

[cloudy]

You and Inp were both right but I have corrected that now. I still have one more to go, though. I had started to read "All Halow's Eve" but it was too much of a downer so I stopped and didn't vote or leave a PC.

You didn't read mine, either, Box.

I'm slowly working my way through them....I have tons of reading still to do.

Off to the lists....

 

[LustyLovers]

I've only got a few left to read... they are really good this year.

 

[Green_Gem]

Boxlicker - you said

"I'm not surprised to read that. I didn't believe that anybody could get that many legitimate votes in such a short peiod of time. Even 132 votes is a lot, far more than most regular writers."

I hear what you're saying about a specific entry that apparently rocketed, from what I've read on this thread. BUT it is perfectly possible to accrue a huge number of votes legitimately, as I discovered to my surprise with an incest entry. I've had a couple removed, obviously bombs but my views and votes are still staggering. Difficult to comprehend but here's a copy and paste from my control page:

Taylor's Taboo Treat Shocking Halloween treat for her father.
4.60 457 71986 Incest/Taboo (English) 10/09/04 approved
Public Comments: 25 Moderate Public Comments

It would be interesting to see how the other incest stories fared.

Green_Gem

 

[Black Tulip]

GG,

You are perfectly right, but the story that was in question had amassed over 300 votes in 2 days.

I must say, I am happy enough with 45 votes. The 20 pc's are actually more satisfying. I never had that many ever.

 

[My Erotic Tail]

Drum rolls~

I always tell my self...
"self" <<<(notice how close to elfs that is<<<<<)

"It's not about being number one"...
"it's about the gathering of Tails"
(smile)
"Oh...I meant tales"...<snicker>

My last submission didn't surface
as of yet, perhaps to controversial
and for the better but it was a fun
write as were all my Halloween tales.
The enjoyment of what we do...
then swet the brow over ratings.. <grin>

And I must say there were some Marvelous
Halloween stories, I haven t read the last two
batches that came out (lots) but by the weekend
I should be close to reading all the entrys..
"woooooo"

 

[LustyLovers]

We posted this on another thread but It seems appropriate for this one as well:

I've been getting slammed right and left. My story was in the first batch posted. It's goes up, it goes down. The first week it was out, before there was a whole lot to read from, I accumulated a little over a hundred votes, but kept about a 4.86 average. Laurel did a great job of taking out the bombers. Then for the next 10 days or so I got twenty-five more votes or so and dropped to between a 4.81 and 4.83 average. Today when the dust settled I've ended up with a 4.81 average 139 votes and 42,976 views 26 comments, and more email feedback than all of my other ten stories I've put out here all together.

It's amazing that the first 110 votes I got that was regularly checked by Laurel thought much more of our story than the last 29 or so votes.

A lot of people have been complaining about their vote counts. We got very uncomfortable with some of the comments because we did get a hundred votes very quickly. Laurel at this time was taking out the bombers, so we know that if she thought there was anything untoward going on ( on our parts) she would have taken care of it. We felt maybe it was because we got our story out on the first day, and it was 29 typed pages, four Lit. pages. People could see we took our time and worked hard to produce what we thought was a pretty viable entry. We thought they showed their appreciation by voting for it. I hope we didn't pay for that by people thinking we got too many votes to fast. Let's hope they read my story before they condemned it. The math isn't to difficult to figure out.

Anyway, rant over. We love Literotica. We're still going to write and we're still going to post, because the awesome comments and feedback we have received are what we really care about anyway!

 

[The Mutt]

Help! I need votes on my story. It's a quick and dirty read.
Link below and enjoy.

 

[Black Tulip]

... the story that was in question had amassed over 300 votes in 2 days ...

LustyLovers,

Seems to me that is a whole different ballgame from your earnings. Don't sweat, you deserved what you got. LOL

I know, I voted too.

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

LustyLovers,

As Black Tulip pointed out, what caught everyone's attention with "Hump" was the huge number of votes in its first few days. Check the "Top" list for First Time, Erotic Horror, and your category, Erotic Couplings and compare the totals for other stories submitted in October. Your numbers are impressive, but in-line with those of thewritermark, whose EC story, "I Hate You" has 144 votes and a 4.78 score.

There were some other, subjective, things that didn't seem kosher. For a five page story with no sex on the first page to get that many reads and such an extremely high a score in just a few days was very unusual.

Then there were all the public comments, over twenty in the first few days with none being from anyone who had ever submitted a story to Lit. Sack and Sabledrake, who left polite comments, later became exceptions to that trend.

I wish both of you the best of luck.

Rumple Foreskin

 

[LustyLovers]

Thanks 'Tulip....sorry for the semi rant..but it's hard to tell sometimes who's talking 'bout who. We just wanted to make sure that we were on the right page......

Feelin' better now....

 

[LustyLovers]

Thanks to you too 'Rump.. and the same apologies if our comments offended anyone. They certainly were not intented to. I think what caught us was the number 132....that's the number of votes we had after 2 days.....which surprised us too. Scary coincidence I guess. Sooo...we were'nt sure if we were being questioned as well. We can see now that it wasn't directed at us....hence our apology.

Like we said before....we just want to have fun and enjoy being back here!

Bob and Reb

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

Glad you guys feel better. IMHO, the main reason no one questioned your scores was the quality of the writing. In comparison, here's one sentence from "Hump".

Her face was the embodiment of innocence, yet her sparkling eyes and relaxed body language projected a sexy playfulness that suggested her sweet appearance was but an illusion grander than any the masterful magician David Copperfield could conduct.

I rest my case.

Rumple Foreskin

 

[LustyLovers]

Point *well* taken.

If Reb tried to sneak a line like that into one of our stories....I'd make her pay for sure....somehow!

Hmmm..... maybe I can sneak one in and just blame her!

Suggestions for punishments always gracefully accepted!

 

[Boxlicker101]

Glad you guys feel better. IMHO, the main reason no one questioned your scores was the quality of the writing. In comparison, here's one sentence from "Hump".

quote:
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Her face was the embodiment of innocence, yet her sparkling eyes and relaxed body language projected a sexy playfulness that suggested her sweet appearance was but an illusion grander than any the masterful magician David Copperfield could conduct

I rest my case.

Rumple Foreskin

That line would be a contender in the Bullwer Lytton contest. I'm not at all sure of the spelling of that neme but I think the writers here know what contest I mean.

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

That line would be a contender in the Bullwer Lytton contest. I'm not at all sure of the spelling of that neme but I think the writers here know what contest I mean.

You done did good. Just one "L" too many. Me, I always make a hash of the spelling. For those interested, here's the link to that reknowned, first-sentence contest site.

http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/#To inflict

Rumple Foreskin

 

[Frederick Carol]

Begging Post Time!

My story still needs five votes to qualify. I've just got my system rebuilt after a traumatic weekend, so I'm way behind in my reading, too. I just won't have time to read everyone's story, but if anyone, like me, needs a vote to actually get into the contest, PM me.


My story, 'God Bless You, Marianne Duquesne', is here.

 

[curious2c]

heh...I have only gotten thirteen votes so far...not too bad of a score. Kind of odd, this is the first story I have written at lit that has not gotten at least some kind of feedback or public comments. Hmmmm...Perhaps I have overstayed my welcome?

I have been reading the others...takes time but so far that time has been worth it for sure. This years contest has lots of great stories.