For those who need a quick tutorial on how yeah write voting works, here it is. It’s pretty much the same post as last week, so if you’ve got a handle on it, carry on.
Everybody gets seven votes
Depending on your browser, there will be a yellow star above or below each thumbnail. Click on the thumbnail to read the post before voting, click on the yellow star to vote for the post after reading.
Voting closes Thursday, 9 p.m. EDT
After each yellow star click, the page will refresh, and you’ll have to make your way back down to the grid to click another yellow star after reading the post.
If it’s after 9 p.m. EDT [-4 GMT] on Thursday when you’re trying to vote, voting is closed. There will be no more yellow stars and voting will not work.
Once you’ve voted for your seven favorite posts, you’re done voting and the yellow stars will disappear. You are then free to campaign for votes for your favorite entries including your own.
Only one vote per IP address per entry will be valid
Remember, this is a writing challenge, not a clicking contest. Avoid the temptation to vote for yourself or anyone else from various IP addresses. That’ll just create more work for me as I validate all the votes and delete the self-votes and the wipe out the votes from your neighbor’s wi-fi.
Internet campaigning
Same goes for your Facebook friends, y’all. We’re doing our best to introduce yeah write as an encouraging, supportive community for writing bloggers and blogging writers, not as a click-fest. Ask your friends, family, Facebook fans and Twitter followers to read some of the other blogs on the grid while they’re here, and they may stay for a while and become one of us. We’re good peoples and I like showing you guys off every once in a while.
[stextbox id=”alert”]Hey, you guys, I’m #454 on the grid. Vote for me vote for me vote for meeeeeeee!!![/stextbox]
[stextbox id=”info”]Hey, you guys, come visit this cool writing challenge and vote for me for and a few others on the grid. If you love discovering new blogs, it’s a great place.[/stextbox]
Friday winners
- popular vote winner
- editor’s choice by Erica
- lurker’s favorite by Flood
- lurker’s favorite by Emma
- lurker’s favorite by our newest judge who will be revealed in the winners’ post
- comment karma, which is not the most comments left by a yeah write reader, but the wittiest, most thoughtful, most something-or-other comment—dunno, I’ll know it when I read it.
Have fun!
Have fun out there reading, commenting and voting. Please please turn off comment moderation, word verification and Blogger’s comment CAPTCHA until voting ends tomorrow at 9 p.m. EDT [-4 GMT].
Thanks for being so awesome.
Yeah write #52 is open for voting.
Erica, you know that Ellen and I love ya! We even like having more writers to read and enjoy—the community of writers here is pretty special. Have you considered, with 1/3 more posts on the grid (did I do that math right?) , giving an extra day to read them? Read some twitter conversations tonight about people not having enough time to read AND write comments. Food for thought, Erin
I’ll definitely give some thought to it, although an extra day to read pushes the winners’ post to Saturday when no one cares about much on the Internet. One alternative can certainly be to read and vote first, comment later. The grid never actually closes for viewing the posts, which would include leaving comments.
I sense that the community of bloggers here care very much about reading and honoring the winners’ post and would read it any day of the week, including Saturday. Additionally, if one waits to comment after the voting and awards, one is excluded from consideration for Comment Karma.
With the dual goals of maximum positive exposure for the participating blogs and minimal negative impact on my family’s household activities, the yeah write timetable will remain unchanged for now. But I do appreciate the input and I’m grateful for everyone’s enthusiastic support.
Not enough time, I’m hearing you – I came back to vote and discovered I was too late. I’ve been trying to read and comment as much as I can. Sincere apologies for my lack of form everybody
No apology necessary. It’s always a crazy, rushed feeling your first week on the grid. We were glad to have you.
Okay, I think I only got to vote for 4.
Sorry, Erica, about all the crazy!
I’m having trouble voting. It only shows one vote so far. I’ve clicked on one a few times, but it doesn’t show up as voted. What to do?
Loving that pic of ‘against captcha’ by the way. That’s awesome.
For some reason I could only vote for 4 and then it showed me 3, then the whole stars disappeared w/o me casting my 3 remaining votes. Boo Hoo.
I sent you an email. Send me your other three votes, and I’ll register them for you!
Please, please, please get rid of captcha, people!!!!
OMG I love your “ROBOTS ETC. AGAINST CAPTCHA” campaign. God BLESS you for that one.
Ditto!!! 🙂
That campaign belongs to Stephanie @claybaboons. Isn’t it perfect for us?
greedy: now I find that SEVEN votes isn’t enough. Could you perhaps stop all these good writers from linking up, for god sake? I mean, really. What’s a girl to do?
I’m half-way done and already want to vote for more than seven! Argh!
Read everything and voted – I feel so organized this week!
Clearly the virgin from Florida with the hanging chad needs help. I voted for 7. After number seven it refreshed and said I have 7 votes. The yellow stars are there (but no green clovers, blue diamonds, or any other lucky charms) and I’m hoping my votes got counted.
The same thing happened to me. I’ll send a note to the Inlinkz app guy about it, but I do know the votes are registering. I can see them on the back end. The virgin from Florida did good.