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    Ann Bogle
    Oct 18, 03:20pm

    Any one can join and send stories with 20 faves to the group:

    http://fictionaut.com/groups/twenty-faves

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    Adam Sifre
    Oct 19, 02:37pm

    Someday :(

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    Mathew Paust
    Oct 19, 06:56pm

    Mightn't this encourage something...er...umm, less than wholesome, critically speaking?

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    Henry Standing Bear
    Oct 20, 01:02am

    All due respect, Ann, but I've seen this before. It's not a good idea.

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    Henry Standing Bear
    Oct 20, 10:39am

    Ah hell, Ann, who am I to say anything about anything or anybody. Nevermind my comment above. If I could delete it, I would.

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    Ann Bogle
    Oct 20, 05:45pm

    Here's to health! I think incentive after the fact (I get to hit the # buzzer) has pleased me and never injured me, to put it one way.

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    Mathew Paust
    Oct 20, 07:54pm

    I agree it's nice to have, but how frequently do favs reflect merit, as opposed to popularity?

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    Adam Sifre
    Oct 20, 08:54pm

    My lack of stars is why I turned to life of crime.

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    Adam Sifre
    Oct 20, 08:55pm

    This is writing. popularity is merit.

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    Ann Bogle
    Oct 20, 09:23pm

    Do not forget the zero faves group. It's hard to join and easy to get kicked out of that one.

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    Mathew Paust
    Oct 20, 11:27pm

    Stop it, Ann. I'm under orders to curtail my laffter in the public library.

    You have indeed, Adam. Your stories are criminal.

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    Gary Hardaway
    Oct 21, 02:09am

    If I get twenty faves, it's obviously merit. For anyone else, it's popularity. Right?

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    Adam Sifre
    Oct 21, 12:10pm

    Every time one of my stories gets a favorite, it makes me a little sad. I can't help but think about all those poor readers out there who haven't had the opportunity to compliment my writing.

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    Mathew Paust
    Oct 21, 02:52pm

    Nothing wrong with popularity, so long as I'm more popular than you.

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    James Lloyd Davis
    Oct 21, 06:13pm

    Popularity is the opium of the masses.

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    Gary Hardaway
    Oct 21, 06:50pm

    The good thing about a modicum of popularity is the second printing. And the second book deal. Popularity based on merit- there's the thing fondly wished for.

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    Mathew Paust
    Oct 21, 08:32pm

    Trouble is, the positive subjectivity in measuring merit seems too often adversely influenced by a book's popularity in the marketplace.

    Put another way, the snobs simply can't bring themselves to like anything the hoi polloi likes. *sniff*

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    Adam Sifre
    Oct 22, 01:34pm

    As with everything else in my life, I choose popularity over quality.

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    James Lloyd Davis
    Oct 22, 02:57pm

    You don't choose popularity. It chooses you. Like the market, your stock goes up or it goes down. You can skew the numbers, but you can't buck the trends.

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    Ann Bogle
    Oct 23, 03:42am

    Speaking of stocks, there was a web site called Blog Stocks (not kidding), and back in 2008 or so, shares of my blog stocks were going in the imaginary numbers of $millions. Anyone know anything about it then or today? Values sank, too, as I noticed when I visited the site again years later. Where is the web site? Anyone heard of it? Clues. I got myself the American A- blues in a Viennese C park for women (A+: Rocky Horror is NOT my idea of a film to worship).

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    Ann Bogle
    Oct 23, 03:43am

    Blogshares — that is it:

    http://www.blogshares.com/

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