Thanks, as always, for voting.
Voting points this round: 1465
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Throne3d 's vote counting system is awesome.
I will continue to trim stories off the list. Whichever story has the lowest number of vote points this round will be dropped off the list. Any votes to any stories not on the list will not be applied to any stories, on or off the list. The stories will not be abandoned, just put on hiatus until I've actually finished a significant number of stories that are actually still on the list.
The drop for this vote will be ... (drumroll) ...
Bait & Switch. It got 23 vote points (one less than
Junior Hero, again), for a running total of 1164. It gets to keep this total for when it re-enters voting. But for now, it's out.
Current list of stories that have been put on the inactive list:
Really Bad End
MirrorVerse
Bait & Switch
User Errors:
None that are significant.
On to the main event.
Alea Iacta Est 1211
All Alone 1094
Confrontation II 901
Danny & Taylor 570
Hostage Situation 502
I, Panacea 615
Junior Hero 117
Meet the Heberts 776
NSW 1212
Nemesis 55
One More Trigger 564
Recoil 1577
Slippery Slope 0 (1597)
Trump Card 290
War Games 495
Wyvern 351
[If you want to know which of these stories is NSFW, check the
first post of the thread..]
And that's
Slippery Slope up, and
Bait & Switch dropped from the voting.
I'm guessing Slippery Slope next, then Recoil (unless Recoil slides in first), then maybe Bait & Switch and NSW.
Recoil nearly pipped
Slippery Slope at the post, but it snuck into the top spot.
Bait & Switch got knocked out of the running due to a low vote point count, so damn close to the winning line it could taste it (but don't worry; when it gets brought back in, it'll keep its current vote point total). After
Recoil, it'll be
Alea Iacta Est, then
NSW at a rough guess.
Check out
Jim Starluck 's
spreadsheet for a reasonable prediction.
Anyway, thanks again for voting, and I hope you enjoy reading the stories as much as I enjoy writing them.
For anyone who hasn't voted on this thread before, the voting rules go as follows:
1) UP TO six votes. I will not count anything extra, and a write-in will likely be ignored (if I want to write a different story, I will, but at my own discretion). Suggestions are welcome, but I am under no obligation to carry them out. And just remember, the more stories I am writing, the longer it will take for your favourites to roll back around.
2) First vote is worth six points, second is worth five, and so on.
3) You can't vote twice on the same story. The voting code will count the last vote and ignore previous ones.
4) If I say "Voting is CLOSED", then this post comes up, with "Voting is OPEN" at the bottom, then you can vote again.
5) If I say "Voting will continue", it's still the same voting period. Voting has not restarted. You can not vote a second time.
6) If you vote for a story that is not on the voting list, those point(s) will go to the story that got the least number of vote points that round.
6) [current situation] I will be pruning the list.
6a) Each voting round, I will be dropping the story that has garnered the fewest vote points for that round.
6b) That story will be removed from the voting list but not abandoned; it will keep its current total of vote points.
6c) Voting for stories that are not on the voting list will not increase their vote point totals. Those votes will instead be lost.
6d) If a story reaches the top of the list with the least amount of vote points for that round, I will update it then remove it from the list.
6e) When I have a) pruned the list to an acceptable size, and b) finished a few of the current fics, I will look at bringing stories back on to the list.
Vote format looks like this:
[X] Alea Iacta Est - 6
[X] I, Panacea - 5
[X] War Games - 4
[X] Recoil - 3
[X] Trump Card - 2
[X] NSW - 1
Specifically: SQUARE brackets around an X, one space, and please spell at least the first word of the name of the story properly. Number of voting points comes last. Please try to format your vote properly, so as not to confuse the vote counter.
Thank you.
Voting is OPEN.
