Vote Thread for Ack's Omake Corner

Nope. I refuse.

 

You know, I think he would post a chapter in response to voter demand, except that would be a...

...sorry, I can't bring myself to finish.

 

Very much so. It doesn't exist anymore but those who remember it can tell you that the original NSW chapter Encounter with the Dark Side was far inferior to the one it is now. This is because Ack decided it could be better and followed the outline I supplied for it more closely when re-writing it.

 

Voter demand ... well, that's what voting is for

 

I'm kinda with Doomlord9 on this one; strikes me as being kind of like seeing a script for a yakuza film and asking, "what, you need to choreograph mindless action?"

 

[X] Recoil - 5
[X] NSW - 4
[X] I, Panacea - 3
[X] Trump Card - 2
[X] MirrorVerse - 1


You have so many good stories you almost need to shift to 6 voting slots. I'm going to have to keep a list here of alternates to swap in on my own voting!
One More Trigger - 0

 

Well All Unaware is on its last chapter and Security! is almost finished so we'll two new slots soon enough. But that's only two slots, so unless Ack desides to expand his already large projects list we'll have to choose carefully.

 

Psst.... He's talking about the massive voter demand for more Nemesis...

 

...okay so maybe my Slippery Slope pun wasn't as obvious as I thought.

(Or I'm missing something. And it was more of a play on words than a pun, really.)

 

I just remembered Junior Hero - it was (is?) actually an interesting story, but it's been buried beneath so many other Ack fics I'd forgotten about it.
Ack, please duplicate yourself?

 

It's still there, in the voting list. Gradually creeping up.

But, like Nemesis, it's suffering from "not a canon character" syndrome.

 

[X] Recoil - 5
[X] NSW - 4
[X] Alea Iacta Est - 3
[X] One More Trigger - 2
[X] All Alone - 1

I've only read the first two but I'm planning to read the rest.

 

Please edit the name of the second one, as I have. This is the SFW part of the board, after all. (and it makes it harder to sort otherwise)

Just incidentally; I was thinking. I have 21 ongoing fics, but only 15 in the list.

Wondering if I should hold a different type of secondary vote. That is, put all 21 fics up for vote, and the top 15 competitors go back on to the list, while the others go into the "when I feel like it" pile.

Or maybe bump it up to 20 fics, and six votes per person. (which would still slow down when any particular fic got to the top of the pile).

Ideas, people?

 

I like the first option better. However, I'm worried about losing All Alone. Then again, the chance to gain Wyvern would be worth it.

I think that if you have 20 stories with 6 votes, things will be a little too cluttered.

 

One idea I have: You could allow people to vote for six+ stories per session, but the highest one still only gets 5 points. Stories 5-(however many you allow) each receive 1 point.

My total recommendation: add every story to the voting list, and maybe start with up to three 1-point votes, to be adjusted as desired.

 

If you do this, it'd probably work best if each voter got 6-7 votes, so we wouldn't have to drop some fics we like off the list simply because we didn't have enough votes to vote for them all. It'd probably work best if for the voting points didn't go higher than 3 (2 votes at 3 points, 2 votes at 2 points, rest of votes at 1 point), that should give a better idea of overall community reception of a fic, rather than just being at the top of a few people's lists.

This option is fine with me. Though I envision some vote totals making it to the 900's with this.

*edit- misspelled a /quote, so screwed all the formatting up...

 

I guess I just don't see the point of having a story not be on the list. They only get written one at a time anyway, so what does it matter how many of them are accumulating points at a given moment?

 

My guess would be that most or all of the stories on the list Ack actually has a plan or idea of what to do, so when they come up on the 'to do' list he can get right to it, while the others are an idea/scene that just had to be written but he has no real plan for where it will lead beyond 'this interesting scene'.

 

I didn't get the sense that that was the case, though that would be a situation where keeping those stories off the list would be reasonable.

 

I'm pretty sure all of his stories have at least a basic plot outline.

 

They do. The stories that are on the list are either the initial ones that I was writing when I started this vote thread idea, and the ones that have been voted on since.

 

Of the two options, I'd go with raising the limit to twenty stories and six votes per person. That way, no one has to be deprived of a less popular story they may have been voting for regularly. But it'll also give the readers who really want to see some of your more resent projects a chance to vote for them. And who knows, maybe the increased vote count will give some of the less popular stories some more attention.

Ultimately your call, but I see this being solution for all involved.

 

Well, I've finished the post for Security!, and I may as well tally votes.

Voting is CLOSED.

 

[X] War Games - 6
[X] Wyvern - 5
[X] All Alone - 4
[X] Alea Iacta Est - 3
[X] Recoil - 2
[X] I, Panacea - 1

 

[X] Meet the Heberts - 6
[X] NSW - 5
[X] MirrorVerse - 4
[X] Really Bad End - 3
[X] Danny & Taylor - 2
[X] Junior Hero - 1

 

[X] Recoil - 6
[X] Security! - 5
[X] I, Panacea - 4
[X] Alea Iacta Est - 3
[X] Trump Card - 2
[X] Junior Hero - 1

 

[X] Alea Iacta Est - 3
[X] Bait & Switch - 4
[X] Confrontation II - 2
[X] Recoil - 1
[X] Slippery Slope - 0
[X] Trump Card - 5
[X] Wyvern - 6

 

[X] Recoil - 6
[X] I, Panacea - 5
[X] Security! - 4
[X] Alea Iacta Est - 3
[X] Wyvern - 2
[X] Trump Card - 1

 

Thought exercise: if everybody voted identically, how many rounds until the item getting one vote came up?