The invitational grid is open for editor picks
We hit 30 and then a few more on the challenge grid this week, unlocking the invitational grid and the editors’ picks. This week, in honor of our guest editor Chad Simpson, we are giving away to the jury prize winner a copy of Chad’s collection of short stories Tell Everyone I Said Hi as well as the two other books Chad mentioned in his guest post on Tuesday.
The invitational grid is open only for yeah write editors, so if you happen to see a little blue button that says “add your link,” that’s not for you. Please scroll down the page to the challenge grid. That is where you will vote by clicking the stars on each thumbnail entry.
Selected for the invitational grid? Congrats! It was an exciting and busy week at yeah write.
Challenge grid voting
The challenge grid crowd favorite and top row five winners will be determined by popular vote.
Everybody gets five votes
Click on the thumbnail to read the post before voting. Click on the yellow stars 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, 10:00 p.m. EDT
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- If it’s after 10:00 p.m. EDT [-4 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 five favorite posts, you’re done voting. The stars 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 five best 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.
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- Yeah write and the Inlinkz app allow only one round of five 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.
- 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 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 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.
Yeah write #118 voting is open…
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I’m having some commenting issues as well–sometimes it’s my toolbar, sometimes it’s that the spam folder likes me a lot, sometimes wordpress tells me: “This comment cannot be posted.” And I didn’t even use the f-word or anything.
I read and tried to comment on all the posts but am having problems with the wordpress account that I comment on many of them with. So I just wanted to apologize here to those bloggers that I wasn’t able to leave a comment for and as soon as I get the situation resolved I’m going to go back and comment. 🙂
Your comments are probably in their spam folders. That happens to me all the time.
Hello!
I just got finished reading all the posts and went to vote but a pop-up box came up stating ‘cannot vote’ and when I refreshed the page, it stated that I had already voted, even though I promise I haven’t. Any ideas?
Hi Arden,
Votes are counted by ip address as it is the only way to know who voted without stepping into private data issues.
Because of this, in cases where the ip is shared among users (eg people under a household or behind a corporate network going out through a single IP) the votes will be locked after the first person casts them and subsequent tries will result in a “cannot vote” message.
Of course, since it is an IP based voting, you will be able to vote through e.g. your mobile phone’s network or in general, a network with a different IP address.
Let us know at http://support.inlinkz.com if you have any further questions.
That is so strange! The girl that sits next to me at work entered for the first time this week but she says these aren’t her votes. Interesting 😉 I’ll try it from my phone. I’m sure it will be fine. Thanks!
another YW submission is Freshly Pressed!