So glad you made it
We’re back with a moderated challenge grid, which means that all the gridfolk had to earn their thumbnails the hard way this week. Even if you’re not on the grid, we’ll slap you some skin for showing up to vote (give it up…there you go!). We’ve landed in the spot between 21 and 30 entries, meaning that this week, we each get three votes to dole out to our favorite posts on the grid.
Are you ready?
Here at yeah write, we vote on artistic and technical merit, and we read all the posts before voting. Those little green check marks in the upper left-hand corner of each thumbnail will let you know if you’ve been there, done that. After that, take your time thinking it over. Do your picks have a story to tell? Do they have clear, central conflicts? Is the writing concise, compelling, and free of grammatical and structural errors? Seriously–is it? Does it make you laugh out loud or weep because it’s so good? Think of each vote as an endorsement of a well-written piece, not as a favor to a friend who reeled you in with a funky badge or a secret Internet handshake. Targeted votes and campaigning for your own entries drive us a little nuts. Share the fun of our friendly competition by inviting your friends to read and be read.
Remember Comment Bob! He’s the hottest cheerleading badge you’ve ever met, and he can’t wait to visit your sidebar because of all the thoughtful comments you’ve left for our fabulous gridfolk.
Kevin the kiwi showed up, too
Because we’re under 30 entries on the grid this week, instead of opening up the invitational with editors’ picks and a jury prize, we’ll award the editor’s kiwi badge instead. That means that in addition to the popular vote this week, we’ll let our editors pick their favorite post on the grid. Whoever stands out as this week’s kiwi gets to display the kiwi badge, complete with Kevin the kiwi, in their sidebar!
Still waiting on those birthday gifts?
If you participated in our birthday prize drawing over the past few weeks and you’re wondering where you’re at, stay tuned! We’ve drawn our winners and we’ll announce who they are in Sunday’s kickoff post for yeah write 158!
Challenge grid voting starts here
The challenge grid crowd favorite and top row will be determined by popular vote.
Everybody gets three votes
Click on each thumbnail to read the posts before voting. Click on the voting icon to vote for a post after reading. Do not vote for your own post, please.
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
- If it’s after 10:00 p.m. EST [-5 GMT] on Thursday when you’re trying to vote, voting is closed. There will be no more voting icons on the thumbnail and voting will not work.
- Once you’ve voted for your favorite posts, you’re done voting. The voting icons will disappear.
- 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 best posts 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 a set number of votes, and they should vote for yours only if it’s one of the best on the grid. Campaigning for your own targeted votes is highly discouraged.
- Yeah write and the Inlinkz app allow only one set of 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.
- Refreshing the page, watching the votes go up and down? First, don’t do that. Second, if you see the votes on each entry fluctuating throughout the day, that’s the vote proctor adjusting each tally for enthusiastic clickers and non-reading voters. Don’t you want your entry to win because it’s the best on the grid and not because you have the greatest social media influence? Write well, campaign for others, leave encouraging comments.
Winner’s post published Friday by noon EDT
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 winner’s 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.
New vote proctor in town
Yeah write editor Stacie has taken over the vote monitoring from Erica M. Stacie places justice before mercy, so think twice before voting for yourself or attempting to vote more than once by using another IP address. It’s one voting round per IP address, one voting round per person. Thank you!
Yeah write #157 voting is open…
[hr]
Loading InLinkz ...
I agree with Jan above! Very well thought out. Question: are the little hearts for voting or is there another way to vote?
Yes, click the avatar to read the post, then the heart to vote. Thanks for joining us!
I’m new to Yeah Write but really like the assortment of writers here. Plus it’s great that you expect everyone to read every post before voting. A good rule for the impatient among us. 🙂
Jan, thanks for attending to one of our most important guidelines: reading then voting. It helps build community and it’s just good to read outside of our normal writing circles. Welcome to yeah write!