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Multi-Chapter 'fic Rated +1. Hooray, but why?
Okay, I have a multi-chapter story posted. Overall it has a rating of Original +1 (and there was much rejoicing on my part), but I'm confused about how it got that way.


One of its chapters is +2 for Funny and one is +1 for Moving. Most chapters are unrated. None of the chapters are rated for Original. Is there some sort of overall rating?

Both of my other multi-chapter 'fics that have been rated have one chapter rated and that stood for the whole story, +1 for one and -1 for the other.
Posted at 2006-02-22 21:39:20
Ithilwen I just looked at another of my multi-chapter 'fics, and while its rating (Boring -1) hasn't changed, I've noticed that individual chapters have been rated differently. If I add all the ratings together, though, I get -1.
Posted at 2006-02-22 21:44:00
Kemayo The +2 Funny was first rated +1 Original, which is where that came from. We pick the adjective that was most used... or if there's a tie, it randomly picks one of the most used. So there were three ratings used on the fic, and it just happened to turn up Original when it was last rated.
Posted at 2006-02-24 11:33:00
Ithilwen Thanks. That tells me where the word comes from. How about the number? Does it have to get the same rating more than once for things to add up?
Posted at 2006-02-24 12:46:50
Kemayo As I recall, the rating of a multi-chapter story is the average of its per-chapter ratings, not including unrated chapters, rounded down.

I think I may want to alter that behavior, so it's not quite so harsh... it is, after all, very hard to have a multi-chapter story rated 5 under this behavior.

(It's been a while since I read through the code for this, and I'm not the one who wrote it in the first place. So I may be misrepresenting it...)
Posted at 2006-02-24 15:29:24
Ithilwen Oooooooh. Yeah. This system favors multi-chapter 'fics that are posted one chapter at a time on ficwad. This story was written a long time ago and transplanted whole.

Overall it makes sense, though.
Posted at 2006-02-24 19:47:44

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