Someone who may know what he's talking about shared some insider stuff. Or maybe it's common knowledge that everyone else knew.
> You can vote early and often on a story, but only your last vote counts. The previous ones are deleted and don't affect the scores.
> If you post a story today, its score is measured against all the scores of all the stories posted in the last three years. A much longer time frame than I had imagined.
> There are almost 5500 pen names on SOL. I guess some people might use more than one nom de plume so the number of authors could be fewer.
Of course none of this explains the one glaring SOL anomaly. If the voting and scoring systems are so fair, how do you rationalize the fact that my Winter stories aren't residing comfortably in 10-Land?
Paige