¡Viva el tercer año!
Reaching 30+ entries on the yeah write #105 challenge grid opened up the yeah write #105 invitational grid and the very first editors’ picks of year three. Throughout the day, until 6 p.m. US eastern, the editors will be adding posts to the invitational from the challenge and the Internet-at-large. Keep an eye on this space for your favorite entries and, if you happen to see a blue button that says “add your link” it’s not for you. You’re looking further down the page for the challenge grid and its yellow stars to click for the popular vote.
We’re still in celebration mode, so there’s another gift card being offered this week: one dollar for every entry on the challenge grid. The jury prize winner will win a gift card to any U.S. or Canada retailer in the amount of at least $40, no more than 50.
Challenge grid voting
The challenge grid crowd favorite and top row five winners will be determined by popular vote.
Everybody gets five 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.
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, 11:59 p.m. EST
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- 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 five times.
- If it’s after 11:59 p.m. EST [-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 five favorite posts, you’re done voting and the yellow stars will disappear.
- Sometimes the voting program can be glitchy. If you’re voting, but the stars don’t disappear, don’t worry: your votes are registering.
- You can vote only once per IP address.
- Voting for your own post should be disabled.
- Once you’ve voted for the five best on the grid, you are then free to campaign for votes for your favorite entries.
- When 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.
- Yeah write is a writing challenge, not a clicking contest. Please don’t make Erica M validate each vote as legitimate, but if she has to, she will.
- 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.
The crowd favorite will win a gift card for at least $40, no more than $50, one dollar for each entry on the challenge grid, to the U.S. or Canada retailer of his or her choice. ¡Viva el tercer año!
Achievement: unlocked! Jacq’s Playhouse $60 gift card
Because we reached our secondary goal of 40 on the grid, we are now hosting a random drawing for a $60 gift card toward a custom doll in Jacq’s Playhouse. Anyone on the challenge grid or at the speakeasy is eligible. If you led a virgin to either grid, let us know in comments who belongs to you, and you’ll be eligible. Just wanna hang out and read and vote on either grid? Speak up in comments, and you’re in the drawing. Winner announced in Friday’s post. How exciting!
Yeah write #105 voting is open…
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