was curious to know if votes still appear on authors' time lines.
In the last few days I think I've seen my vote count go up on some stories where I hadn't noticed a vote on my time line, but I didn't think much of it, as I couldn't be sure how many votes the story actually had.
I posted a new story today, so I know for sure that no votes for it have appeared on my timeline (but the comments have). The # of comments so far equals the number of votes, so I don't know if it's a new feature where a vote plus comment will get rolled into a single notification, or if votes no longer appear on timelines.
It's also true that the timeline seems a bit buggy today. I've had multiple notifications of actions that I doubt that the person did multiple times. Two people followed me today, each apparently 5-7 times in short succession. One of them added a bunch of my stories to their queue, and in terms of how it appeared on my timeline, he added each story to his queue 3-4 times within the same minute.
If votes are gone from the timeline, that is an interesting step towards some kind of anonymity, although votes that are accompanied by comments (the best kind of feedback) will obviously not be as opaque.
Just wondering.
It was like this when I first started here at Lush. When we went to putting votes on timelines, the voting seemed to go from all over the board to a pass/fail (a 5 or a no-vote). I think anonymous voting is a better representation, and as always, Lush will still be on the lookout for troll votes. I'll miss knowing who's reading and sending them a little note at times in appreciation but it's probably for the best.
I knew who gave most of my scores. I have one reader who reads every story and only leaves a score, never a comment. Sometimes he gives me a four and sometimes he gives me a five. I really liked it that he liked some of my stories better than others.
I won't turn off scoring. If I did, it would be like saying I don't trust my own opinion of my own writing. Of course I love encouragement, but a 2 isn't going to make me like one of my own stories any less.
But you're right, Oceanrunner. I would expect to see less perfect fives. I'm trying to decide if it will change how I vote....
It never occurred to me to track votes on any of the dreck I write. I'm just grateful when someone takes the time to vote and/or comment. I did love it when I figured out I could actually reply to comments; saved a lot of PM's. As for scoring and commenting on my stuff: bash away, there is always the possibility a lesson in humility might make me less of a smartass...but I doubt it!
I love this!!! Today I received a score on one of my older poems and my timeline just notified me it had received a score...not a whisper of who had scored. For a moment I was frozen, stunned...I had to process how I felt about the change.
After the shock wore off it felt freeing...for me AND for the person who gave their score.
The benefit to them of course is they are free to provide whatever score they feel the piece deserves without fear of recrimination. Hopefully going forward, when writers adjust to the shock of 4's or even (gasp) 3's, people will realize that nobody is perfect every time and it's okay to get less than a 5.
The benefit to me is that I don't have to compose a custom e-mail to thank someone for the score they gave. I am aware that sounds supremely selfish but it's just practical...while you can reply to many comments quickly all at once, sending an email to someone that only left a score can take up considerable time when you're either on a phone or dealing with this rural as freak slow home wifi.
I'm calling this one a win! =d>
Voting should be anonymous. All the other erotica sites are like this.
I find the scores much higher on lush but the views are much lower too.
One of my stories that is here I have on another site. In one day it racked up 30,000 views.
I think this will be much better.
Hugs,
Mysteria
Xo
I imagine that sort of thing must take a lot of time for the mods behind the scenes.
The reality is that on a site where almost all scores are 5s, a 4 IS a low score, even if there's no way that it should be. One adapts to the local economy, so to speak. At a school where 19 of 20 students get A+'s, the student with an A- has a disastrously low grade.
Not to mention the fact that you can't fight grade inflation all by yourself, as a voter. I know that a few people, me included, eventually migrated to a a "5 or nothing" system, with a VERY occasional 4 every now and then.
Having adapted to the local economy, I'll admit that getting 4s has bothered me, even though I know it shouldn't. It's more of a gut response of: "given some of the stuff that gets straight 5s, there's no way that 4 seems fair."
But I'll adapt. ;)
I look forward to things sort of re-centering to more realistic averages.
(Although it is true that when a very prestigious ivy-league university tried to implement an institutional response to rampant grade inflation a few years back, the squawking from the offended precious snowflakes who were no longer getting straight As and A+'s was legendary! As I've said, it will be interesting to see how things shake out).
