Thanks to all who submitted to this week’s moderated grid
We had nearly 30 total submissions and, with many newcomers still navigating our submission guidelines, just about half made it past Obed, our new submissions editor. Those who received an Obed love note are invited to stick around to read and vote. Taking a look at the published blogs will help for next time.
Even though the invitational grid did not open this week (it opens when we have 30 or more posts published on the challenge grid), maybe we can talk Obed into selecting his personal editor’s pick from the challenge. We won’t push it, though. Writing 15 individual encouraging critiques is quite the workload for a first week on the job.
A mini-grid means a mini-vote!
This week, ONE is the word!
Because it’s the beginning of February, when so many of us get the polar bear blues, we are switching things up a bit this week–just for fun. You get ONE VOTE to hand over to your very favorite pick on the grid. That means that you’re looking for a single post, hanging out on an ice floe, glistening in the yeah write light.
Does your pick have a story to tell? Does it have a clear, central conflict? Is the writing concise, compelling, and free of grammatical and structural errors? Does it show which writers did away with their “darlings” in favor of writing a winning post? Think of your ONE vote as an endorsement of a well-written piece, not as a favor to a friend who asked you to stop by and scroll down to his or her thumbnail.
Challenge grid voting starts here
The challenge grid crowd favorite will be determined by popular vote.
Everybody gets ONE vote
Click on the thumbnail to read the post before voting. Click on the voting icon to vote for the 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. EST
- 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 post, 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 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 one vote, and they should vote for yours only if it’s the best on the grid. Campaigning for your own targeted votes is highly discouraged.
- Yeah write and the Inlinkz app allow only one vote per IP address. When campaigning for votes for your favorite, 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.
Winner’s 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 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.
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 #147 voting is open…
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If I had known BEFORE I started voting that I only had one vote, I might have made a different selection! I see from the comments on the other page that I am not the only one caught short by this change. I am frustrated that this change wasn’t explained at the outset along with all the other changes.
I’m not sure I understand. The voting post explaining this week’s one vote is right above the voting grid, not below. How was it, then, not explained beforehand? Yes, there were a few others who did not read the voting post, but that doesn’t mean the majority were caught off-guard. We are at yeah write, above anything else, readers first.
If you come to Yeah Write from your badge link it takes you to the posting page, not the voting page. it is theoretically possible therefore to vote without ever clicking on the voting page, which is, to be honest, something I do when my time is tight. The instructions haven’t changed in the time I’ve been involved, so I just started to vote the way I always have. My fault, I know, for not taking the time to read. I’m just saying that if I was introducing a bunch of changes at the outset of the challenge I would have at least altered people at that point to expect changes to the voting rules as well. As you say, I was not the only one who was caught off guard!
alerted — not altered!
So sad I didn’t make it this week 🙁 But I can’t wait to read all the fabulous posts! Who will get my lucky vote!! Haha
One vote was hard … But I liked it 🙂