Discussion thread: March 2019 75 word story challenge.

[Teresa Edgerton]

My long list, short list, and *vote*:

benward
Victoria
D3athw4alker
johnnyjet
Little Star
Daysman
Stable
Ivy Moser
mosaix
*Parson*

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

There may be a problem extending the voting because the poll was set to automatically close. Ursa is working on it, though, and in a little while we will know if he succeeded in keeping the poll open for another day.

Don't count on the software cooperating, though, so if you are still contemplating which story to vote for, you may have only nineteen minutes left.

 

[Marvin]

A lot of great stuff from one and all!

Honourable mention for:
@dannymcg
@mosaix
@Victoria Silverwolf
@Vince W
@Hugh

Vote goes to:
@johnnyjet

My thanks to:
@Ian Fortytwo
@TheDustyZebra
@Cat's Cradle
For giving my effort a mention.

And to echo many others, thank you to everyone that takes the time to write all those reviews.

 

[Ursa major]

The poll will now close 24 hours later than scheduled, just in case someone tried to vote earlier and couldn't (and isn't around until after midnight tonight).

At the moment, the closing time is slightly earlier than that -- I had to change the time before it closed for good today -- but I will change it to the correct time (23:59 on the 29th of March) in about 12 or so minutes.

 

[Marvin]

I wonder if I can write a likeable 75!

Turns out, you could!

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

Well, the Chrons died again as he was making the changes. And now he's undoubtedly gone to bed. Stay tuned to find out what the final closing time is. (Or better yet, vote while the site is up and you can!)

 

[Parson]

There must be a glitch in the system somewhere. Chrons was also down for a while last night. ---- And perhaps related, From time to time my display wavers.

On a personal level I'm glad the time got extended. I just received short listings from @Cat's Cradle and @HazelRah which were fabulous indeed.

And then I was gobsmacked when @Teresa Edgerton gave me a vote. Thanks everyone!

 

[scarpelius]

@Parson Nowadays software is built on OOP (object oriented programming) paradigm. Because of that, a page request like this one, is going to be piece together from tens to thousands small pieces of code. The actual code is separated in files on the disk and reading each one of them for every page request, consume a lot of server CPU time. Multiply that with thousands of visitors and you are going to clog the machine to the point no request can be served. There are many other factors, but they can be tweaked a lot easier.

 

[Ursa major]

The closing time is now as advertised: 23:59 (GMT) tonight...


...unless we have another problem with server uptime, I suppose....

 

[Ursa major]

Or better yet, vote while the site is up and you can!

This!

 

[Culhwch]

Just to be sure, if there's a tiebreak we're going to revert to postal votes, so we'll have a definitive winner by August at the latest!

 

[D3athw4lker]

Thanks @Ian Fortytwo, @Ivy Moser, @johnnyjet and @Teresa Edgerton for the mentions!

Big thanks to @Ashleyne for the vote!

Chuffed to bits!

 

[Ursa major]

Although I was able to vote yesterday evening, a mixture of lack of my time, and a lack of server uptime, meant that I haven't managed to present the results of the Ursa jury...

...until now....


The following are in posting order within the categories:


Honourable Mentions:

• Phaseolus vulgaris by dannymcg
• We Reap What We Sow by juelz4sure
• Consciousness, but not as we know it…. by Hugh
• Time to move on. by Marvin

Runners Up:

• Virtuosity at Paganini’s by Luiglin
• Birth by Peter V
• Frustrating Guests by Vince W

Winner:

• No Need To Panic. by mosaix

​

 

[TheDustyZebra]

Somewhere along the line, I've picked up another vote, too! Many thanks to Hugh and Abernovo for the honors.

 

[Bob Senior]

Parson, thank you for the listing, made my day, week and month .

And once again a big thank you to all the reviewers, great work .
Bob

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

Thank you to nixie, Ivy Moser, D3athw4lker, and johnnyjet for the mentions. And a big thank you to Ian Forty-Two for the vote.

 

[David Evil Overlord]

Now that the Chrons is working, the poll is closed.

 

[Abernovo]

Somewhere along the line, I've picked up another vote, too!

It was a close-run thing between you and Parson. The two stories which really grabbed me. You edged it out.

 

[Danny McG]

Now that the Chrons is working, the poll is closed.

It was down again last night, I remain convinced that a Chron Down Under is desperately trying to vote for me during his lunch break at work but is being failed by the system.
Extend it again!

(I might get a pity vote)

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

We'll see what a quorum of mods decides. We'll run out of month if this sort of thing keeps up.