Please stand by; your editors are voting
The grid is closed to new submissions, but there is always time to read new-to-you blogs and become part of our community while you wait for editors’ votes to start showing up beneath each thumbnail.
This is a new thing for us, this closed voting thing. I like it, and please feel free to tell me how you feel about it in the comments of this post. This is one of the rare times I’m opening a unilateral decision to unfettered opinion. Ask my husband Q—it doesn’t happen very often, so take advantage. I’m listening.
We are scoring each entry based on a standard spreadsheet. As the editors email me their scores, I will add them as “votes” beneath the thumbnails. It’ll say “votes” but please translate that as “scores”. Thanks!
Comment karma
We have about five bloggers who’ve commented on each entry on the grid. You still have until 8 p.m. US central time to comment on as many as you can. We are not comment grubbers, far from it. Yeah write has always valued quality over quantity. However, encouraging everyone to lay hands on each entry works as a reward for those who worked so hard to get published on the grid in the first place. That “your yeah write submission” email from Flood is no fun, but it is very helpful, and we admire those who rework their entries based on her suggestions or just plain old start over. Leaving a comment recognizes the hard work everyone put in to get here.
Leave a comment on all 27 entries this week, and you’ll earn comment karma. I made you a winners’ badge. You know you want it.
Have fun reading and commenting as you wait for the winners’ post. Share yeah write with your friends. We’re still trying to get back to 50 published submissions on the grid so we can kick off a four-week challenge for a $100 Amazon gift card. We won’t get there until you start proselytizing about our awesomeness.
Winners’ post with each editor’s choice, including a guest editor gig by my husband Q plus a jury prize winner, to be published Friday at midnight US eastern time.
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I like this better, because it looks like everyone got more votes this way!! Nobody is left with a measly one or two points, which means I think this system somewhat better reflects the quality of the posts in the weight of the ‘grade’.
Honestly, I miss the popular vote. And I say that as someone who’s never been in danger of actually winning it.
I like the closed voting that happens now too because it allows for a glimpse into the editors’ thought processes. And I value all of your opinions and thought processes or I wouldn’t keep yeah writing.
But – and possibly this is just a ‘me’ thing – I don’t find editor picks or closed voting any less nerve racking than popular voting. I prefer communities where there’s a popular vote sort of “check” if there’s only a handful of people who run the joint. An open vote helps let bloggers know if their post hits a chord with an audience that is larger than just 4 or 5 people. As human beings (or very sophisticated bots) you guys are naturally going to have friends and favorites. You can get objectivity from a spreadsheet but that can only go so far because it’s impossible to be 100% objective all the time about something that’s as subjective as writing. (And please don’t take that as a criticism.)
I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with the picks that the people who run the joint have been making and, again, I really value your thoughts and like the editors’ vote. But why not bring back the popular vote too? Then there’s a cheese shop and damn fine espresso feel with an added, “Wow! Lots of people interested in writing think my post sucks less than Wal-Mart too!” bit of popular spice.
I don’t miss the voting. I find it much more enjoyable to sit back and enjoy rather than trying to do more of a technical analysis and comparison! And I love having the extra day to submit. I love the changes 🙂
I have to be quick because I’m at work and don’t want to get in grown-up-trouble for being on the internets. Haha.
Damn this day job thing! I won’t get home in time and finish reading everything for the comment karma cut off, but I WILL read and comment on them all.
I’m glad I made it this week. Thanks for having me back.
Oh, and the voting? I like this way btter.
Awesome week again team!