Is the rating stopped after the contest ended?

Congratulation on your winning the contest, a couple of times! I read your articles and they should be where they are.

Thanks for reading my articles. Is your username the same at helium? May be next time I come across the name I can read it.

Yes, my pen name is the same at Helium. I just write now, not worry about the rating and winning anymore. I want to get used to writing again.

That's how it works! Wonder how many times an article has to go through rating.

It depends how many articles there are on the topic. Theoretically, each article must be rated against every other article there. Realistically, I don't think that happens because there are just so many articles and so few people that really take the time to rate 10 or 15 articles for every one that they write. If you wanted to be picky about it, you should rate as many pairs as your new article will create in the queue. That would mean that writing an article to a set with, say, 3 other articles in it would obligate you to three ratings while writing to a topic with 63 articles would obligate you to that many ratings just to do your "fair" share. I would be shocked if the people who write to a topic with over 50 articles already written do even a tenth of that. Maybe that's why I tend to write to articles with only a few others. Or maybe I just like to write about off-the-wall things!

Yes, I try to rate everyday, only a few articles a day though. Good luck in the contest this week.