Please VOTE! A request from the Moderators
As there is a bit of a gap between now and the deadline of the next active competition, I'm asking - even pleading - on behalf of the moderators and those members who are still active writers ...
Please take a moment to read through those competitions listed as OPEN TO VOTING. These are writing competitions abandoned by their hosts but need to be cleared from the DUP system.
If you can read just two of the current five ... Great! All five? YOURE F&$#N AWESOME!!!
Please take a moment to read through those competitions listed as OPEN TO VOTING. These are writing competitions abandoned by their hosts but need to be cleared from the DUP system.
If you can read just two of the current five ... Great! All five? YOURE F&$#N AWESOME!!!
Anonymous
I've been voting in these. I'll take fkn awesome
Anonymous
As a suggestion - would it be possible to make how many votes are still needed to bring the competition to conclusion visible to us mere mortals... it might make us more likely to vote if we can see how many are left to go. Just a thought.
Miss_Sub said:As a suggestion - would it be possible to make how many votes are still needed to bring the competition to conclusion visible to us mere mortals... it might make us more likely to vote if we can see how many are left to go. Just a thought.
It's not quite a simple as that. In order for voting to close there needs to be an outright winner, and that depends on how the votes are spread and who someone is going to vote for. For example, a competition may have met the minimum vote requirement, but if four entries have three votes each and someone votes for a different entry, which is not one of those four front runners, then voting won't end.
It's not quite a simple as that. In order for voting to close there needs to be an outright winner, and that depends on how the votes are spread and who someone is going to vote for. For example, a competition may have met the minimum vote requirement, but if four entries have three votes each and someone votes for a different entry, which is not one of those four front runners, then voting won't end.
admin said:
It's not quite a simple as that. In order for voting to close there needs to be an outright winner, and that depends on how the votes are spread and who someone is going to vote for. For example, a competition may have met the minimum vote requirement, but if four entries have three votes each and someone votes for a different entry, which is not one of those four front runners, then voting won't end.
Thanks for your prompt reply on this WebMistress ... Ignore my PM with same question.
It's not quite a simple as that. In order for voting to close there needs to be an outright winner, and that depends on how the votes are spread and who someone is going to vote for. For example, a competition may have met the minimum vote requirement, but if four entries have three votes each and someone votes for a different entry, which is not one of those four front runners, then voting won't end.
Thanks for your prompt reply on this WebMistress ... Ignore my PM with same question.
lepperochan said:what's in it for me, good fellow ? Is there a monetary award on offer ? a Christmas hamper ? ....a magic tree for my dead car ? ..if I vote in 20 do I get an honorary judge's trophy ?
I'll go out and get s
t faced drunk in your honor, then write the worse piece of poetry known to man ... No wait I tend to do that anyway ...
Will "thank you" do?
I'll go out and get s
t faced drunk in your honor, then write the worse piece of poetry known to man ... No wait I tend to do that anyway ... Will "thank you" do?
Anonymous
Ok - then my next question would be would it be better to only have maybe two contests up for voting rather than 5/6? People are surely more likely to be bothered with 1/2 rather than putting in their own time wading through multiple threads. It is a lot of work to read an entire thread properly and make a good judgement call, I can appreciate that.
To that end I would say pick the ones that interest you as a reader. If the topic appeals to you ... Or the variety of interpretation on the theme - go for it. I think five at a time just gives folks options to choose what they want to read or not
I think that once the list gets cleared of abandoned comps, it will be easier to manage new ones that get abandoned and hopefully we'll see less of that all together. Right now there's about 44 left waiting after our current 5 in vote status, and since we started out with some crazy amount well near 200, I guess we're doing fairly well. I've sent messages to those who are still members and most have been good about closing them up themselves.
Cool! Looks like 4 comps just got voted winners since this thread started--thanks Lobo! I put up 4 more comps to vote on, and pulled the shortest ones I could find, with the least amount of entries, to maybe move some more along by not having tons of pages to read through.
Thanks to all who voted!
Thanks to all who voted!
Anonymous
LobodeSanPedro said:To that end I would say pick the ones that interest you as a reader. If the topic appeals to you ... Or the variety of interpretation on the theme - go for it. I think five at a time just gives folks options to choose what they want to read or not
Fair enough... and now I've exhausted my constructive thoughts about this, so I'm out.
Fair enough... and now I've exhausted my constructive thoughts about this, so I'm out.
