Oops ... sorry. I'll look into it in a day or so. Needs thinking about the best way to approach it. That thread's not been closed. Just bump it periodically until I (or someone else ... hint hint, sbw, maybe) gets around to creating a new sticky for the summer lit. compy Also ... I am utterly knocked out by the quality of the stories. I'd rather have just 4 good stories to read than have the 4 good ones buried among 46 boring ones. (I am obviously not counting my own effort )
No worries. I can hardly sit still in my chair! This competition is far too exciting! :hyper: Everybody's stories were so good, I just had to leave little comments on them all. And since we were only five entering the compy, everybody will get a prise. How nice. BTW, will the "I have no opinion" vote count as a point? *looks confused*
So...um...did I miss the party? Did the voting end? I've just been in my game a lot for a couple of days, having a blast with Mrs. Crumplebottom and her therapist. So, I suppose that all the American members have gone off on holiday. Except my household. We're just hanging out here.
So there may be moderators who are even now sorting through the scores and making a final decision. However, pending that, I decided to look at the scores myself. It was not easy to do, mainly because of the uneven number of votes cast. This is what it looks like to me: No. 1 The place where I belong No. 2 Star Dust No. 3 Icicles through the heart No. 4 Vertigo No. 5 A Veronaville Tale Mainly, I looked at the number of votes in the top three categories as a whole: the Good, Very Good and Best categories. The most difficult choice is between No. 2 and No. 3. I believe it's between Star Dust and Icicles through the heart. I chose Start Dust for No. 2 because of the 4 votes that were also cast in the Best Category. Using the same reasoning I decided that Icicles beat Vertigo because of all the votes cast in both the Very Good and Good categories. Please, if there is better way to look at this, let us know. Also, please forgive my clumsy transfer from spreadsheet to jpeg. (Badly done, I can see now.) Thanks.
Oo, nice chart, Lynet. Now I can see all the votes clearly. I just counted up all the scores but I'm not sure that's the way it's supposed to be done?? Well anyway, if you count up all the scores, I think you'll find that Vertigo actually comes before my Icicles - not sure though. I might have added up the points wrong.. :blush:
Thanks, about the chart. But how did you add yours up? I'm just showing total votes that each story received in each category. Not many people voted. If you notice the time I posted, you can see it was in the middle of the night. My eyes were tired, my brain was tired. :nosleep: But I thought I'd get the ball rolling here.
Getting that ball rolling is definitely what we need! Thank you. I don't think that me getting them in a different order has to do with you being wrong; I think we just counted the scores a bit differently. What I did was to ad up the numbers by the score they got (that doesn't really make sence so I'll try to explain a bit better). These are the points that different categories give (from my point of veiw anyway No Opinion: 1 p, Like it: 2 p, Good: 3 p and so on. So the amount of points that people get is by which order the categories are in. For example: if somebody has 2 votes in the 'like it' category they get 4 points. 4 votes in the 'Good' category gives 12 points. (I hope you can find some sence in all that rambling up there. :flippant
I understand what you did, Muffin. That's very good, like calculating my grade point average in school. The only issue I see is the uneven number of votes. A couple of people didn't put in a vote on all the stories. So for the moment, looking at only the two stories that I think were very close in the scoring, yours and Vega's, I made the total votes equal. (84 can be divided evenly by both 14 and 12.) Chart attached: Then I used your point system. Actually I looked at all the stories this way, and I still think they come out to the order I first suggested. All of the stories were very good. I wish more people had read them, and that all those who did had voted. p.s. If you see any errors in my math, point them out and beat me up. It's a problem with spreadsheets, you see. The formulas that aren't visible can be wrong. You have to be careful when you use spreadsheets.
Forget that I said anything. It was just me that was going wrong somewhere. I added things up again and it came out in the same order as yours did the first time. Uh-huh. I agree with you there. It would have been much more exciting if more people had voted. As for the stories, they were all superb.
