A quick tutorial on how yeah write voting works:
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, and so it will go seven times.
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.
Sometimes the voting program can be glitchy. If you’re voting, but the stars don’t disappear, don’t worry: your votes are registering. However, if the app prevents you from voting for any additional entries before you’ve voted for seven blogs, please send me an email with your remaining choices, and I’ll register them for you on the back end.
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. If I added your link for you, the system will not recognize your IP address as a self-vote, so you’re officially on the honor system about it. Thanks!
Internet campaigning
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.
If they’re sent here to zero in on one or more yellow stars, they arrive not as readers, but as task masters. Please give them the option to choose their own favorites. Kismet and serendipity are where it’s at whenever we’re scouring the universe for new experiences; we should let them explore openly.
[stextbox id=”no”]Hey, you guys, I’m #454 on the grid. Vote for me vote for me vote for meeeeeeee!!![/stextbox]
[stextbox id=”no”]Hey, you guys, I’m #454 on the grid. Vote for me and #545, #234, #213, #653![/stextbox]
[stextbox id=”yes”]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 by the entire Interwebz if the entire Interwebz is made up of, like, 250 people
- editor’s choice by Erica M
- lurker’s favorite by Flood G
- lurker’s favorite by Emma T
- lurker’s favorite by Jennifer W
- comment karma, which is not the most comments left by a yeah write reader, but the wittiest, most thoughtful, most something-or-other social activity—dunno, I’ll know it when I see it.
Have fun!
Don’t get caught up in the madness of trying to thoughtfully comment on each and every blog while you’re reading through the grid for your seven favorites. Many of us have discovered that’s a quick path toward running out of time to vote. Tweeting your favorites counts as an endorsement as does retweeting their GOTVs (get out the vote) that I send out through @yhwriteme Thursday mornings U.S. central time. Yes, it’s the noble mission of several people on the grid to comment on each and every blog, but that doesn’t have to be your noble mission. Read them all so you can vote fairly, then comment later or link to your favorites in a future blog post. It’s all social, it all counts.
Have fun out there. 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 #53 is open for voting.
I read all 75 – can’t do this every week but sure enjoyed my first time out!
Man, this never gets any easier! Great grid again this week. Loved some but more than the 7 I got to vote for. Wish I had like 10 more votes 😉
Phew! Finished and it’s still light out! Great posts, and I managed to leave something legible on almost all of them. Thanks again, Erica, for the opportunity and motivation to read them all!
that was HARD to pick 7… really sooo many good entries!! good luck everyone!
Oh man, the stress of trying to get around a grid of 75, even partially! Skim prolifically or pore selectively: what’s the consensus?
Things that attract or reject the reader’s attention:
1. grid avatar or thumbnail
2. post introduction
3. readability of blog post (level of interest in content, display and body text, graphics)
Those are good places to start acknowledging the power of personal presentation when we’re competing among several other entries that are demanding to be read.
Hey Erica, is there a way to add more information to the grid?
I’m a second week (weak) newb and I’m trying to decide how to “brand” my entries? the choices I have now are to :
1. Use the same picture week in and out and change the title
2. Change the picture each week and use the same title (my name, or my blog name)
I see that some of the users have the same picture so I assume they are thinking about this or deliberately branding.
I’d like to see the Twitter names under the posts. Reading 75 posts and trying to remember which ones to vote for is difficult, then I get the Twitter with the leaderboard and all the individual messages, which you indicate we should retweet… some of the names don’t match the post or blog title (like mine).
Just some random thoughts.
What is everyone else doing for branding?
WG
I wrote a post about the thumbnail a while back. Here’s the link.
Yes, I’d absolutely recommend changing the name under the thumbnail to Twitter names. Sarah @sundayspill did just that a few weeks ago, and I’m sure it makes her easier to identify when people are clicking through from Twitter.
Ok, it took 6 votes, then I voted again and it refreshed and still says I have 1 vote left and the last post I voted for does not show a vote.
Also, I don’t believe I voted for any pictionary posts…if I had to spell llarduple on your captcha, that may have been all the energy I had.
WG
What to do with my 7? So many good entries. Except for that ‘Cant Vote For Own’ that guy is just weird…
I am loving my 7 votes but I cannot keep up with reading everyones. So forgive me for being a bit partial.
A great 75 entries! Choosing 7 was difficult. Reading and voting was lots of fun as always!
So many great blogs worth voting for. But I only have 7 😛 Have a blessed Thursday!
This is only my 2nd week here, but I absolutely heart Yeah Write! Just absolutely freaking heart it! I am so glad I have discovered so many other mentally unstable people and their blogs. Good to know I am not alone.
Good luck everyone!
And I totally misspelled my own name, “Write WRINSE Repeat.” See how mentally unstable I can be?
Carry on.
I want to like your comment but there is not button. So, LIKE!
Awesome reads and writing as always! Good luck everyone!