Y'all might want to read this one.
ETA: All teams have reported in, thank you! *g* I'll mess around with formulas and word counts this weekend and see where we end up with each option, and then go from there and get it figured out. *g*
Okay, think I've got it sorted out for our team efforts over the last two weeks. We need to figure out which one of these options works better for the majority, and in the comments of this post (screened), have someone from your team tell me how many words each and every member of your team wrote from June 19th through July 3rd. Count all words you wrote, even if you wound up deleting them. Report this to me by Friday night this week. Quota reporting is back in effect, so report in the Quota thread by Sunday night. Website will be updated with newly finished stories and new points tally will be up on the community then.
I only want *one* person from each team with 8 individual numbers, and then their final total in your comment. So be nice and post to your communities what you had, if you haven't already so someone can collect them. If someone has a permanent account, please indicate that so I can take them out of the drawing for the free paid time.
Your Points Assessment Options: (Read carefully, then vote.)
Option A
Because justabi is mathematically inclined, I had her write up her solution to our little team count quandary. *pats her genius self*
A straight percentage disproportionately favors short stories. Take two examples, two writers who both wrote 5000 words, an accomplishment for both. One writer’s total word count is 10,000 (writer A), the other’s is 50,000 (writer B). Both writer A and writer B have written the same 5000 words, but with a straight percentage writer A gets 50 points and writer B gets 10. For the same amount of work, writer B has earned 80% fewer points simply because her story is five times longer than writer A’s story.
A bonus of one point per ten thousand words is only .01% of the writer’s word count, and would do *something* to normalize the results. In this example, the bonus would give writer A a score of 51 and writer B a score of 15.
A bonus of one point per thousand words, .1% of total word count gives writer A a score of 60 and writer B a score of 60.
Or, Option B
Basically--word counts are combined, that's it. Person A wrote 1,000, person B wrote 2,000, person C wrote 498. Add them together, put them up against the other teams and see who has the highest number.
And now that you have seen both of the options, I would like to see which one you prefer. Option A, Option B--vote for whatever you think is fairer, or hey, vote for whatever option benefits you and your team more. I seriously don't care which one "wins", I just want as many people happy as possible with it. So.
Poll DO. NOT. VOTE. IN. THIS. POLL. IF. YOU. ARE. NOT. WRITING. FOR. THIS. PROJECT. THANK. YOU. (*g*)
Okay, think I've got it sorted out for our team efforts over the last two weeks. We need to figure out which one of these options works better for the majority, and in the comments of this post (screened), have someone from your team tell me how many words each and every member of your team wrote from June 19th through July 3rd. Count all words you wrote, even if you wound up deleting them. Report this to me by Friday night this week. Quota reporting is back in effect, so report in the Quota thread by Sunday night. Website will be updated with newly finished stories and new points tally will be up on the community then.
I only want *one* person from each team with 8 individual numbers, and then their final total in your comment. So be nice and post to your communities what you had, if you haven't already so someone can collect them. If someone has a permanent account, please indicate that so I can take them out of the drawing for the free paid time.
Your Points Assessment Options: (Read carefully, then vote.)
Option A
Because justabi is mathematically inclined, I had her write up her solution to our little team count quandary. *pats her genius self*
A straight percentage disproportionately favors short stories. Take two examples, two writers who both wrote 5000 words, an accomplishment for both. One writer’s total word count is 10,000 (writer A), the other’s is 50,000 (writer B). Both writer A and writer B have written the same 5000 words, but with a straight percentage writer A gets 50 points and writer B gets 10. For the same amount of work, writer B has earned 80% fewer points simply because her story is five times longer than writer A’s story.
A bonus of one point per ten thousand words is only .01% of the writer’s word count, and would do *something* to normalize the results. In this example, the bonus would give writer A a score of 51 and writer B a score of 15.
A bonus of one point per thousand words, .1% of total word count gives writer A a score of 60 and writer B a score of 60.
Or, Option B
Basically--word counts are combined, that's it. Person A wrote 1,000, person B wrote 2,000, person C wrote 498. Add them together, put them up against the other teams and see who has the highest number.
And now that you have seen both of the options, I would like to see which one you prefer. Option A, Option B--vote for whatever you think is fairer, or hey, vote for whatever option benefits you and your team more. I seriously don't care which one "wins", I just want as many people happy as possible with it. So.
Poll DO. NOT. VOTE. IN. THIS. POLL. IF. YOU. ARE. NOT. WRITING. FOR. THIS. PROJECT. THANK. YOU. (*g*)