Welcome back to the invitational grid!
I ain’t gonna lie. I had to go shopping for blogs so we could open up the invitational grid by having at least 30 entries on the challenge grid. Many many thanks to The Scintilla Project whose 2013 participant list provided us with four excellent reads that put us over the top. If you’re one of the bloggers I grabbed in the eleventh hour on Wednesday, thank you for following the trail from your stats to our humble writing community. We are good peoples, and we hope you’ll stick around for voting and the winners’ announcements on Friday. Email Erica M if you have any additional questions or concerns.
The editors will be adding their choices from the challenge grid to the invitational grid throughout the day, so if you happen to see a little blue button that says “add your link,” that’s not for you. Scroll down to the bottom half of the page and look for the voting icons in the corner of the challenge grid thumbnails. It’s there you will click and vote for the five best entries on artistic and technical merit.
Keep checking back to see if you’ve made the invitational! Yeah write editors will be adding their selections up until 6 p.m. U.S. eastern time.
This week’s perk packages!
Before we start handing out the Best American Series some time during November’s NaBloPoMo, let’s debut our new yeah write coffee mugs. One for the crowd favorite, one for the jury prize winner and one for a random storyteller on the challenge grid. Remember that pesky “allow 4-6 weeks for shipping and handling” from when we were kids? That’s going to apply to this because I’m still getting the design just right. Who knew you couldn’t just slap on a yeah write badge and open up shop? Anyway.
To be eligible for any perk package here on yeah write, you must be a current subscriber by the time the voting period ends on Thursday at 10:00 p.m. U.S. eastern time. For the coffee mugs, you’ll also need a mailing address for the U.S., Canada or one of these countries listed on the Zazzle international shipping page. If the winner doesn’t meet the eligibility requirements, the perk will go to the first randomly drawn winner who does. Good luck!
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
- 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 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 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.
- If 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. Campaigning for your own targeted votes is highly discouraged.
- 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.
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.
Refreshing the page, watching the votes go up or down?
When the votes go down, that’s Erica M eliminating targeted or duplicate votes from enthusiastic BFFs and people accidentally voting for their own posts. The vote tallies show only from the same IP address you voted from the first time, so if you leave home and get to the gym and, oops, now can’t see who’s in the lead, please wait until you get back home. Your voting again to reveal the new tallies just makes much more work for Erica M who, in exasperation, may delete first and ask no questions later. One voting round per IP address, one voting round per person. Thanks.
Yeah write #131 voting is open…
