Thanks, as always, for voting.
Voting points this round: 1609
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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) ...
Nemesis. It got 54 vote points (11 less than
All Alone), for a running total of 161 points. 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, and their vote totals:
Really Bad End 185
MirrorVerse 1140
Bait & Switch 1164
Junior Hero 140
Nemesis 161
User Errors:
Visual Pun - Votes are not being accepted for Junior Hero. Sorry.
Fishyface - You voted twice. I have nullified the first vote.
On to the main event.
Alea Iacta Est 0 (1454)
All Alone 1230
Confrontation II 1057
Danny & Taylor 692
Hostage Situation 660
I, Panacea 959
Meet the Heberts 914
NSW 1375
One More Trigger 729
Recoil 187
Slippery Slope 160
Trump Card 588
War Games 654
Wyvern 622
[If you want to know which of these stories is NSFW, check the
first post of the thread..]
And that's
Recoil up, and
Junior Hero dropped from the voting. That makes 15 stories in the voting list. I think I'll drop one more again, to bring it down to 13. I won't add any more until I've completed a few, though I might be posting
Slippery Slope alongside the regular chapters.
then NSW at a rough guess. Then after that, maybe All Alone.
Meanwhile,
All Alone nearly got dropped from the running altogether. It'll be interesting to see if
Danny & Taylor gets dropped next vote, or
All Alone.
If
All Alone gets the flick, then
Confrontation II will step up into the front line.
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.