A slight misshap.

In case you're wondering why you might have recieved word of a Kinds of Love update and why it's back in the feature box, I accidentally put a chapter meant for Kinds of Love: The World into Kinds of Love. My mistake. Nothing to see here folks. Sorry.

Comments

[ThePhantomAssassin]

They will never find the body.

[Tundara]

My hopes... they have been dashed against the rocks.

[xoid]

There needs to be some way to correct this sort of error. Yeah, sure, deleting the accidental chapter gets rid of that but it hardly un‐features the story it was added to; some folks are vindictive enough to down‐vote stories over accidents like this. (Not that I give a rat’s arse about whether an author gets butthurt or not over these drive‐by down‐votes; I, as a reader, detest letting ephemeral issues skew voting — a story’s up‐vote–down‐vote ratio is meaningless enough thank you.)

[Rainedash]

2510844
Thankfully that didn't happen. It did get one more downvote but it also got a group of upvotes about about twenty new faves. And likely helped to advertise my other stories, including the sequel the chapter was meant for. It's not something I'd want to do again, but it turned out fine.

[xoid]

2511101
You’re relatively lucky then. Still, even a single down‐vote can ensure a not‐insanely‐popular story won’t see the feature box again for a long time when other authors simultaneously decide to crank out a few thousand horsewords. The insanely popular stories (i.e., those with a thousand up‐votes and less than seventy‐five down) can weather a single down‐vote — unless they happen to update at the same time as three other stories of greater popularity they wouldn’t be affected and odds are that once you hit popularity of that calibre new favourites and likes from the feature box are a drop in the bucket compared to word of mouth and trawling other people’s favourites.

[Rainedash]

2511507

The insanely popular stories (i.e., those with a thousand up‐votes and less than seventy‐five down) can weather a single down‐vote

Yeah. If Kinds of Love wasn't as successful that downvote would have hurt. But as it stands, it's still 1605 likes to 49 dislikes. Not a huge deal.