I finally got 2042 stories I'm happy with.
I came up with 17 of my own to share with everyone, and shamelessly stole the rest.
I didn't even come up with those 17 on my own - I used the stories file hosted at Khatzumoto's site.

Out of those 17:
3 is the highest star rating any story got
2 received zero stars (I still like them though)
1 received at least one warning
The warning might be because it's a rewrite of Heisig's story but I'm not sure.
Just about all of my stories are significantly different from the others that are already there.

I have 25 stories shared, 24 of them being for non RTK1-3 Kanji. My highest voted one of course is the single RTK1 Kanji with 8 votes, and my next highest one has 5 votes (I think it was from the revised Jouyou set).

My top rated story has 5 stars.

My worst rated got reported 2 times

I've got 159 public stories; I'd say about 35ish of them have one star. 4 or 5 of them have a warning. The last 15 or so have between 2-5 stars. My highest rated story is 6 stars for the overpowering kanji. My highest rated kanji is sign of the snake with 18, but that doesn't count since it's not an actual story for the kanji

Maybe I'm just clumsy but I found it quite easy to accidentally hit the warning button. I just assumed that's why some seemingly benign stories had warnings. Kinda funny when the original poster of the story would come back and wonder out loud why people took offense to it.

I Agree, I accidentally flagged quite a few stories, I try to undo it most of the time, but I'm sure many have slipped by. Also, stories should be starred automatically if you copy them. Or is it already like that? Maybe I haven't noticed it.

Srdjan Wrote:My top rated story has 5 stars.

My worst rated got reported 2 times

違うよう！
Stars = conventional
Reports = memorable

I hadn't taken a look in ages but the results were interesting!

Stories : 254 private, 1518 public (1772 total)

Highest rated: #1 Thin - 93 stars. #2 loose - 40 stars. #3 Boy - 27 stars
Most reported: #1 Range - 51 reports. #2 thin - 21 reports. #3 accept - 9 reports.

7 pages worth of stories that have at least 1 report.
37 pages worth of stories that have at least 1 star.

I have 70 public stories and those with stars(reports) have:

104, 84(14), 58, 44(7), 28(12), 26(2), 25(1), 20(1), 17, 17(47), 16, 15, 12, 11, 9, 7, 4, 4, 4, 3, 3(1), 2, 2, 2(1), 2, 2, 1(2), 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, (1), (1), (3), (3)

Some are notes about incorrect components and stroke order rather than mnemonic stories, one requires a video, and one apparently offended 3 times more than it helped...

I think reports are pretty useless without a way to specify the reason, and stars need to decay over time to give newer stories a chance.

Out of 528 public stories beginning late 2007...

hehe, I look back on my stories with a mixture of chagrin and pride. Some of them were really popular i.e. many found them useful, others were convoluted things I only found useful because I invested the effort into creating them, and clearly others not so much. I really enjoyed writing stories.

I also committed to using "Dracula" rather than "Mr. T" for a string of stories, which I think only one or two people besides myself found useful.

If I could go back, I'd probably write more stories like the popular ones... the wisdom of the crowd seems to be wise indeed on RevTK.

Most Popular:

#1 Pleasure - 211
#2 Inherit - 183
#3 Encourage - 161
#4 Rejoice - 115
#5 Beautiful Woman - 101
#6 Apologize - 87
#7 Arc - 74
#8 Kill - 70
#9 Dainty - 63
#10 Matter - 59

By Page 4 my stories drop from the 50s on the second page to the 10s.

The story I like least (of mine) is "Hate" (1 vote) and my favourite story that I wrote is for "Examination." It only got 27 votes.

My stories don't hit 1 vote each until Page 17, and it stays like that till Page 27.

Keep in mind a lot of stories receive votes by virtue of being at the top (either new or top ranked). I know I had times where I was in a hurry and I just seized one and starred it on autopilot.

I also have mixed feelings about the stories I wrote that were for primitives rather than kanji. I wrote quite a few and people found them useful, but I think in some sense they're against the rules/guidelines for this site?

Edit: Another thought, i.e. something to learn from # of votes: my most popular stories incorporate placement of primitives... these are also the most satisfying and memorable for me.

Like others I haven't looked in a while. Personally I hope these were popular as they tried to be more visual in addition to starting off the story with the keyword.

Stories : 1743 private, 535 public (2278 total). 200 of the public stories have at least 1 star.

The top 10 for me - Votes (reports)

1. Favor - 484 (3)
2. Cylinder - 263 (3)
3. Propose - 193 (3)
4. Box - 192
5. Utmost - 173 (2)
6. Mourning - 170
7. Topic - 169 (6)
8. Cramped - 169 (4)
9. Regularity - 158 (5)
10. Autumn - 152 (4)

The bottom 10 - reports (votes)

1. Judgement - 23 (145)
2. Exhaust - 10 (36)
3. Sort - 9 (80)
4. Topic - 6 (169)
5. Regularity - 5 (158)
6. Home Country - 5 (28)
7. Dwindle - 4 (127)
8. Rhyme - 4 (66)
9. Angry - 4 (50)
10. Autumn - 4 (152)

Out of 51 shared stories:

Best: Old Man, 28 votes. Not bad, but no real hope of catching up with any story posted in 2006.

http://kanji.koohii.com/study/kanji/old%20man

Worst: Thread - 11 reports, simply for pointing out that everyone was mis-spelling "Spider-Man" (his name has a hyphen!!)

http://kanji.koohii.com/study/kanji/thread

bodhisamaya Wrote:

Srdjan Wrote:My top rated story has 5 stars.

My worst rated got reported 2 times

違うよう！
Stars = conventional
Reports = memorable

So true, the 5 star one is pretty dull, just playing off the katakana elements (many - ta ta). The one that got reported two times involves a naked chick with plastic devil horns and a toy saber nudge nudge.

Quote:I think reports are pretty useless without a way to specify the reason, and stars need to decay over time to give newer stories a chance.

Interesting idea, there should be some affirmative action involving newer stories I found some great ones at the bottom of the page, but most of the time I just check out the top 3 to 5 or so, maybe tweak them a little.

But still, there is the newest stories section...

Btw, is there a way to know which one is the top ranked story of them all, I mean of all the kanji?

I have 817 shared stories, highest is 23 stars (for Sign of the Snake, haha. Highest non-Sign of the Snake is 18 for Endure). Something like 104 of them have 2 or more stars. 220 or so have one star or more. I'm proud of a bunch of them--usually the less popular ones!

I'd be happy to see any of the primitive names I made up become popular (Karl Rove, Final Fantasy VII, Wikipedia), but I've never really checked to see if anyone else used them.

Few of mine have reports. Most is 3, for 'room.' My story is "Tooooooo easy." Second is 2, for 'exchange;' the story is "The day two husbands can exchange vows will be a bright one. Gay marriage FTW.' Two people don't like gay marriage!

I noted that some story of mine was reported, and then I noticed that perhaps that is because it could be interpreted in an explicite way.
Personally, I just report stories that
1. contain factual errors (f.i. woman vs mother);
2. have a good chance to cause interference later on, because they contain references to keywords at higher heisig no.
Usually, the more visual/phantastic stories are better imo, and the semi-rote stories I try to avoid, the stories that tend just to link the primtives with the keyword, and not really make a vivid scene out of it (Heisig does this occasionally as well).

Tzadeck Wrote:I have 817 shared stories, highest is 23 stars (for Sign of the Snake, haha. Highest non-Sign of the Snake is 18 for Endure). Something like 104 of them have 2 or more stars. 220 or so have one star or more. I'm proud of a bunch of them--usually the less popular ones!

I'd be happy to see any of the primitive names I made up become popular (Karl Rove, Final Fantasy VII, Wikipedia), but I've never really checked to see if anyone else used them.

Few of mine have reports. Most is 3, for 'room.' My story is "Tooooooo easy." Second is 2, for 'exchange;' the story is "The day two husbands can exchange vows will be a bright one. Gay marriage FTW.' Two people don't like gay marriage!

Or they could think that the 'bright' in there could make them think of 明

This site definitely has a prudish contingent. Any stories which refer to sex or even anything remotely crude will be flagged at least once.

zachandhobbes Wrote:Or they could think that the 'bright' in there could make them think of 明

That could be.... or maybe they don't like atheists ('brights') either!

Actually, I have a story (for 説) about an atheist trying to talk to a stubborn Christian. It's got more than 10 stars and only one report, so apparently the community is pretty accepting of athiesm^^.

Anyway, I could probably change 'bright' to 'sunny' and it would still work as a story... but I don't really feel the need. It never caused me any problems.

I've got 377 stories with at least one report on them. Interesting. Few have any hint of a sexual theme. I used to check every once in a while to see if I made a mistake with the story somehow. Rarely was that the case. Eh, the space where the report button is could be better used for some other purpose.