The invitational is open
It’s been about 10 weeks since we’ve last had 30 or more published entries on the challenge grid. So for those of you new to the scene, having more than 30 on the challenge opens a second grid called the invitational. The invitational is pretty much what is sounds like it could be: it’s an invitation-only grid with picks from the challenge grid selected by the yeah write editors. Once the invitational closes during voting day, the editors choose their favorites from among the favorites, ranking them, and the one that comes out on top wins the week’s jury prize.
You ready? Here it is. If you happen to see a little blue button that says “add your link,” that’s not for you. Scroll down to the challenge grid and click on each post to read before voting, then vote by using the voting icons in the right-hand corner of the avatar.
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So we’re between 31 and 40 entries, meaning we get four votes this week for our favorite posts. Here at yeah write, we vote on artistic and technical merit, and we read all the posts before voting. 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? Seriously–is it? Does it make you think or smile because it’s so good? Think of each vote as an endorsement of a well-written piece, not as a favor to any friends who may have reeled you in with their fancy and fabulous badges. Targeted votes and campaigning for your own entries drive us a little nuts. Share the fun of our friendly competition by inviting your friends to read and be read.
Remember Comment Bob! If you show your yeah write community spirit by commenting on each post on the grid this week, cheering on your fellow gridfolk, Comment Bob might just make his way into your sidebar. Wouldn’t that be a hoot?
Challenge grid voting starts here
The challenge grid crowd favorite and top row will be determined by popular vote.
Everybody gets four 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. EDT
- 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 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 four votes, and they should vote for yours only if it’s one of the 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.
- Refreshing the page, watching the votes go up and down? First, don’t do that. Second, if you see the votes on each entry fluctuating throughout the day, that’s the vote proctor adjusting each tally for enthusiastic clickers and non-reading voters. Don’t you want your entry to win because it’s the best on the grid and not because you have the greatest social media influence? Write well, campaign for others, leave encouraging comments.
Winner’s 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 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.
New vote proctor in town
Yeah write editor Stacie has taken over the vote monitoring from Erica M. Stacie places justice before mercy, so think twice before voting for yourself or attempting to vote more than once by using another IP address. It’s one voting round per IP address, one voting round per person. Thank you!
Yeah write #154 voting is open…
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