ah! cool! i always thought the challenges were an interesting idea and i'm glad to see them expanded upon!

i'm not certain what comments he's talking about, maybe "The point system is nothing but a colossal perverse incentive to do this kind of nonsense, Joakim." towards one word stories but essentially i think there are some issues with an abuse of the point system that do need to be taken in to account, but i think the rankings would be pretty cool - and i'm not just saying that because i'd probably get a pretty cool one

or i think not even a hover, but next to the eye and the check have a little star. that would be a good way to judge a story's popularity

i could see some problems with this - mainly nepotism, and of course would that be once ever or just once for every three, and so on and so on but still interesting

a counter i suppose would be to have a user run spotlight system (again with people just doing their own/friends works) but idk how that would work. . .

well i guess the problem with disowning stories is what happens when they get picked up again and end up with a hundred some votes? can the original poster take it back? do the points go to no one? besides, is there any reason not to keep a story just on your page? i mean i have tons of stories just abandoned just in case any one stumbles upon them. i can understand if the author thinks 'wow, this story is horrible' and abandons/deletes it because of that, but i'm not certain that abandoning stories do to lack of views is the right way to go about it

Well there is https://www.storywars.net/stories/all?filter=Vote# but i can understand putting something like that on the home page. maybe the five stories most recently starting voting and then linking to every story in a vote??

i don't know i've just been having a lot of thoughts lately and this seemed like one of them

for a lot of sites i like tagging systems as an easy way to search because it's a bit more narrow down-y than just search terms

but on this site no one knows where the story will go making that a bit hard

what could maybe work is a tagging system where each draft writer also can add tags? i'm not certain how well that would work but who knows