How about that moderated grid?
This week, our moderated grid opened up to even more submissions that fit within our guidelines. Those who didn’t make it through but instead received a love note from Obed, our submissions editor, are invited to stick around to read and vote–we’re always happy to have engaged readers and fair voters around here, and to prove it, we’ll enter those who didn’t make the grid but read and voted anyway into a drawing to win a most coveted prize from the yeah write community.
Feel free to let the writers whose posts you enjoyed know it by commenting directly on their blogs–everyone likes a thumbs up for a job well done, and that’s part of the way we create a strong writing community.
Submissions scale the vote!
Three cheers for the measured voting scale!
And three cheers equals three votes. We made it to the 21-30 submissions notch with our moderated queue. That means that if you’re here to read and vote for the best picks on the grid, you get 3 votes to hand out to your favorites. Did you see that? THREE votes this week!
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? Think of each 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 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. 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 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 THREE 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 one vote, and they should vote for yours only if it’s one of the THREE 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.
- 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 #148 voting is open…
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