Author rankings
I put this in the politics section because I noticed the rather stark gender disparity in author rankings. Does anyone understand how author ratings actually work? Let's say a top-ranked poetry author has a poetry ranking of 5.5. Yet as I go through said author's portfolio, it becomes obvious that fewer than half of the ratings for that author are sixes. Yet it would seem this would be necessary -- an equal number of fives and sixes -- for an author to be rated 5.5. So what is actually going on with the rankings, and how is it that only women are represented in the top 15 poetry ranking spots this year? Are we males just too good at pissing people off to attract as many good reviews at the ladies, or is it our breath? It could also be that women are just innately better at poetry than men.
Apart from my crushed and bloody ego, other reason I care is that I heard somewhere that the top ranked writers get some sort of award (cash?) at the end of the year.
RE: Author rankings
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Harambe! The name is back! I'm surprised at you, questioning the super-secret workings of the ranking system. My own private questings into this deep mystery have led me to believe it is mostly a function of frequency of posts. Post the max (twice a day) and you will be rewarded. Since 90% of all posts get 5 stars and 9.8% get 6 stars, there is no rating hierarchy to speak of. Gender-wise it would be interesting to compare the stats of the whole site to that of the top contenders.
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The rankings will be skewed at this time of year anyway.
I have only posted twice in Jan. Both were well received. In fact my latest post had the highest proportion of six-star reviews to total number that I have ever had 22 reviews of which 15 were six stars. Still not good enough to win the contest.
But I digress. I won't even have a ranking yet because I haven't posted six poems...
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Pay no attention to the rankings. They don't mean anything this early or really... ever.
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I thought it was volume. I've never been in the top rankings because I don't post a lot. I think you do have to post most days to get up there.
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