It’s time to vote!
This week, it’s popular voting only without the invitational grid or editors’ picks. Again. But it’s not for lack of trying. Thanks to those on this week’s grid who recruited in social media or added a post in the 11th hour trying to get us there. We even had four out of seven yeah write editors writing for the challenge. Regretfully, we had to send back 2-3 well-written pieces that weren’t personal essays or anecdotes as well as a few that needed editing attention. Once the yeah write summer series begins, we’ll have more leeway for what’s allowed on the grid as long as the writer is open to guidance and helpful feedback.
Challenge grid voting
The challenge grid crowd favorite and top row five winners will be determined by popular vote.
Everybody gets five votes
We’re using the new Inlinkz widget during voting! It’s in beta, so if you have any issues while trying to vote for the five best on the grid, please leave them in comments and we’ll pass them along to Inlinkz admin. If you’ve read this, leave a variation of the phrase “it’s gonna be a great day” in comments.
Click on the thumbnail to read the post before voting. Click on the heart in the upper right corner of the thumbnail to vote for the post after reading.
Read the posts before voting
We are responsible voters here at yeah write. Read, evaluate, vote on merit. We’re still writing the yeah write way, and we want the votes to reflect it.
Voting is open until Thursday, 10:00 p.m. EDT
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- If it’s after 10:00 p.m. EDT [-4 GMT] on Thursday when you’re trying to vote, voting is closed. There will be no more hearts or voting icons on the thumbnail and voting will not work.
- Once you’ve voted for your five favorite posts, you’re done voting. The hearts will show as red for your faves, and, depending on your browser, hearts on all other entries will either disappear or show as gray.
- Voting for your own post should be disabled. If it’s not, please don’t vote for your own post.
- Once you’ve voted for the five best on the grid, you are then free to campaign for votes for your favorite entries.
- If you’d like to see the current vote tallies after you’ve voted, refresh the page.
- If you ask your people to vote for your entry, please let them know they have five votes, and they should vote for yours only if it’s one of those five best on the grid. Campaigning for your own targeted votes is highly discouraged.
- Yeah write and the Inlinkz app allow only one round of five votes per IP address. When campaigning for votes for your favorites, please ask outside voters to read this section before voting. It will lessen their confusion and curb their clicking enthusiasm.
- Don’t make Erica M’s kids have cold cereal for dinner because she’s ignoring them while tracking people driving from hot spot to hot spot to vote nine different times. So uncool, no matter how much her kids like cold cereal.
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Winners’ post published Friday by noon EST
Once the voting ends, the challenge grid will sort itself from highest number of votes to the fewest. Ties are broken by number of page views. Until the winners’ post is published, none of the sorting will be official, but you can still get a good idea of where everyone ended up until the votes are validated.
Yeah write #113 voting is open…
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It’s gonna be a great day because I am about to get on a float in the pool with a drink 🙂
Can I hate you just a little bit?
Would you hate me less if I told you that there is a 2 year old wearing water-wings, splashing the hell out of me? Thus the need for the drink. And the 2 year old belongs to me, so I can’t ditch him.
Hah! Nah, I still hate you a little 🙂
It’s gonna be a great day. Why, you ask? Because it can’t be worse than yesterday. At least I haven’t stabbed anyone yet. Happy reading!
Are you sure you’re not allowed to vote for 20? I can’t decide …
Sorry for all the messages! I forgot to tell you that I can see the vote tally. It doesn’t matter to me but I remember you said it was a glitch last time so I wanted to make sure you knew about it 🙂
Did you see the vote tallies before or after you voted? Before is a bug. After is a feature. Lemme know.
After! So we’re good 🙂 It worked perfectly!
Okay, I’m going out of town today, so I KNOW it’s going to be a great day!
PS – that photo reminds me of Faerie Tale Theatre…
I thought it was gonna be a great day, then I walked outside and it was raining. Again.
I said “It’s gonna be a great day” yesterday and it was. I typically don’t anticipate having two great days in a row, so today I’m going with “Today is gonna be meh.”
Haha. Fair enough.
Man, I missed it again. Next week! In the meantime, I’m off to read all the awesome entries….
Aw, man! We’ll see you next week. Thanks for reading the grid entries!