How writing effort is measured

Every story on Quilloer shows how it was written: the time its writer spent in the editor, how much of the text was typed there, and how much was pasted in. It is a way to tell a person's work from text that was generated somewhere else and pasted, without guessing from the words alone.

What is counted

• Time writing: a second counts while the writer has typed in the last 20 seconds and the editor is on screen. Leaving the tab open does not count.
• Typed here: the characters typed in the story's text, as a share of all the text that went in.
• Pasted in: what was pasted or dropped in, and any text that appeared without being typed or pasted (counted the same way).
• Pace: the story's words for each minute of writing. People compose at well under 40 words a minute; much more than 60 means the text came from somewhere else.
• Sessions: each time the editor was saved.

What the marks mean

• Written here: most of it typed, at a person's pace.
• Partly pasted: a good part pasted in. Quotes, notes and earlier drafts are pasted too, so this is not a mark against a story.
• Unusually fast: more words than a person writes in the time.
• Mostly pasted · may be AI-generated: most of the text was not typed in the editor.
• Writing not measured: there is no record, for stories written before counting began.

The effort score, out of 100, is the share typed here, lowered when the pace is faster than 35 words a minute.

What it cannot tell

A writer may type out text they did not write, or write elsewhere and paste their own work. The counts come from the writer's browser; the server holds them to what it can check (time writing is at most the time since the editor opened, and text that grew without typing is counted as pasted), but they are a signal, not proof.