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MarshAlien said:
It's just odd that the story could be there that long, through the Nude Day sweeps, through the Halloween sweeps, through the Holiday and Valentines Day sweeps, with essentially the same number of votes, and then lose them all of a sudden. I always thought all the stories got swept at the same time by the, uh, sweeper bot, Rosie.

It's also weird to have a story with more comments than votes. I guess it's possible that each of 60 friends could have voted nine times each :)confused:), but they're lazy SOB's and for them go to all the trouble of leaving more than one comment, and typing in where they're from and that security code, would be very unusual.

Finally,



You don't have one of those death rays, do you? Cause I loaned mine to dani and she still hasn't returned it. Can't we just agree to share? It is a big universe.
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My El Paso story has been posted for months. The score stayed pretty even through most of the sweeps. Last night it was a 4.75, down a bit but still good. This morning it's at 4.67.

The voting system here doesn't get my vote, for sure.
 
MarshAlien said:
On the first date? We'd never even met before this morning. And frankly, it's not going to work. We're just not at all compatible. Entirely different galaxies.
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Well, I don't know, Marsh. You have that thing in the middle of your...self...that looks kind of like an...never mind.

*sigh*
 
TxRad said:
You want weird. I have a couple of stories that the score changes almost daily but the number of votes hasn't changed in a year. :rolleyes:

Usually votes disappear and score goes up. as of late votes disappear and the score goes down or remains the same. I noticed on one story, I got three new votes and the score never changed. How do you vote a 4.72 by the way. :confused:
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2 5's and one 4 (those 3 votes averaging 4.67 on their own), depending on the number of votes cast, would not likely be enough to change the original score.

Haven't stopped by here in quite a while but it's comforting to know that some things never change.

The two things that have really diminished this site are the contests (not a sore loser - but they have taken a good deal of the old comraderie and good fellowship away, at least for me) and the very minute percentage of authors who clog this site with so many minimalist chapters of stories on a daily basis.

Unless you have a website of your own to promote yourself, the contests are the only way to get a sizeable number of reads, but then you get caught up in the contest frenzy.
 
Maybe they do a more serious sweep of the stories posted in a given month when they're figuring out the monthly awards? Your story, marshie, was posted at the end of May. Your votes disappeared over the weekend, and they just announced the May winners today! Congrats on the "Mature" story, though; I would never have associated you with anything mature!

Hope you don't have any June stories. ;)
 
I noticed something when I went back to read a favorite story.

The new voting system remembers the stories that you vote on. If I go to a story that I have voted on before it doesn't let me vote again. And it shows me what I voted, the little stars are gold.

If I voted on a story before the system changed does my 'reread' vote with the new system count? Or will it be swept eventually?

The new system is nice because it will hopefully cut down on the multiple vote problem, at least with the log in voters, I don't know how the annony votes are checked.
 
Out of interest...

Sorry to resurrect this thread...

...but I was wondering. Did your votes and reads go back up again, Marsh? Something similar seems to have happened to one of my stories. Now like you, I'm trying to be philosophical and grown up and tell myself that it doesn't matter a jot. Which it doesn't, of course (she said through clenched teeth...)

But somehow the number of votes and scores look familiar--similar, I think to the scores I got for that story back in August when it was first posted. So is it possible that all subsequent votes have been swept away so that the site owners can see who the winners are for the monthly contests? And if that's right, are the votes then reinstated with each passing month?

Just a theory. It could of course be that I've been lucky enough to have people putting in multiple votes for my submissions--but with the new voting system, surely that's not as easy to do as it used to be?
 
evanslily said:
Sorry to resurrect this thread...

...but I was wondering. Did your votes and reads go back up again, Marsh? Something similar seems to have happened to one of my stories. Now like you, I'm trying to be philosophical and grown up and tell myself that it doesn't matter a jot. Which it doesn't, of course (she said through clenched teeth...)

But somehow the number of votes and scores look familiar--similar, I think to the scores I got for that story back in August when it was first posted. So is it possible that all subsequent votes have been swept away so that the site owners can see who the winners are for the monthly contests? And if that's right, are the votes then reinstated with each passing month?

Just a theory. It could of course be that I've been lucky enough to have people putting in multiple votes for my submissions--but with the new voting system, surely that's not as easy to do as it used to be?
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There are a few more votes, but I think it's just because a few more people voted. I still have only 70 votes as compared to 73 comments. It certainly is an interesting theory, though, although it doesn't match up with my experience on my June stories. One of those was posted on June 30. A week ago it had 243 votes. In the sweeps they did before the June awards were recently announced, that story lost only 16 votes. If it had actually had 227 votes by July 15th (when the monthly contest closed), I'd be very surprised. Also, all the votes I lost last October (about 250 of 500 on a story submitted in February) are still "missing." Maybe it will all change this year with the new voting system, although we won't know until next year. :D

hmmnmm said:
Amen
:)

Obscurity= perks
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I think the problem is not too many readers, but that there are a few readers who grew up in Chicago, and believe in voting early and often!
 
MarshAlien said:
There are a few more votes, but I think it's just because a few more people voted. I still have only 70 votes as compared to 73 comments. It certainly is an interesting theory, though, although it doesn't match up with my experience on my June stories. One of those was posted on June 30. A week ago it had 243 votes. In the sweeps they did before the June awards were recently announced, that story lost only 16 votes. If it had actually had 227 votes by July 15th (when the monthly contest closed), I'd be very surprised. Also, all the votes I lost last October (about 250 of 500 on a story submitted in February) are still "missing." Maybe it will all change this year with the new voting system, although we won't know until next year. :D

I think the problem is not too many readers, but that there are a few readers who grew up in Chicago, and believe in voting early and often!
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Oh well. It was worth a wonder... Whereas I didn't lose as many votes as you did on your story, I did lose well over half of them on one of mine--which kind of made it hard not to notice, LOL. As you say, hopefully the new voting system will make it easier next year.

Congratulations on your June 2007 Reader's Choice Award! :D
 
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