I just posted a new story, "Happy Ending", and saw again the same thing that happens every time I post a story: I get a flurry of thumbs-downs in the first 10 votes. The first ten votes for any of my stories are almost evenly divided between thumbs-up and thumbs-down. The thumbs-up usually outnumber the thumbs-down after that, and eventually reach a stable ratio of 20 to 60 thumbs-up per thumbs-down (or lower for stories where I

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