I am about ready to cancel voting on this story. I am sick and tired of the way Lazeez manipulates scores. I know that it is his site and he can do anything he wishes, but I know from the reaction from readers that the story is better than his score indicates.
I know all of the bullshit about how scoring is for readers, not writers, but this may be the last push I need. I find the score insulting to the point of almost giving up on SOL, much as I appreciate the job Lazeez does on the other parts of it, but I have been insulted by the scoring about as long as I can take.
It looks to me like the "1" voters have moved up to "5" or "6" to escape the automatic rejection of their votes, but I have not seen any real change in the adjusted vote on my stories except that they have drifted down from the range of 7.5 to the upper 6s all because of Lazeez's adjustments. Therefore, if the scores on my stories don't start to rise over the next month or so, I will block voting. How can a story with a majority of votes being "8" and up, warrant a rating in the upper 6s?
Yeah, I know, that means that the trolls have won, but my ulcer cannot take much more of this foolishness!