Voting - Week 2

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

A few words from clauderainsrm:

Trick or treat?

It's not only the demand disguised as a question that children will be screaming at many of you this weekend, it is the question before the voters: Which treats are they going to indulge and encourage, and which entries struck them as more of a trick? Honestly though I think people are going to be hard pressed to find any tricks. This is another batch of entries that is bound to keep you quite busy this weekend with your eyes glued to the screen.

Different people have different tastes. So there really is no way to find out without putting it out there. Some people like the chocolate and other people like - well, they like other stuff. Whatever is left in the bag after you've eaten all the chocolate I guess!

There are some incredible entries this time around, and quite frankly a lot of early byes. It will be fascinating to see how that impacts the results, both now and in the coming weeks.

Unfortunately, due to RL, fwtallgirl won't be continuing on this journey with us. But hopefully she will be able to make it out for the Home Game!

We will be losing the bottom vote-getter from each tribe. So make sure to support the entries that you love, and maybe, just maybe, their ghosts won't end up haunting you.*

(*OK, they probably will regardless. These folks strike me as the "haunting" type)

The polls will close Monday November 2nd at 8pm EST. (Note the end of day light savings time this weekend)

As always, you can vote for as many entries, in each tribe, as you want to support. Just keep in mind to hit "submit" after each tribe since they are all separate polls!

Good luck to everyone!

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It was too late for the poll - but for the record, there was an entry for animimi http://animimi.livejournal.com/867360.html for anyone who wants to read it.
Ditto for soundscool1 http://soundscool1.livejournal.com/3447.html
I waited an extra half hour before posting, but I am going to put it in the hands of their Tribal Leaders if they want these counted as "byes" or not.
And because all good things come in threes, a certain "I'm going to, I'm not, I'm going to" slipped by edith_jones http://edith-jones.livejournal.com/234829.html - this one is actually on me so no tribal leader decision needed. It won't be counted against her.

Comments

[lovewas.livejournal.com]

Look at all those byes...

[kiwiria.livejournal.com]

That was my first reaction as well. Wow!

[jarien.livejournal.com]

It's very early in the season for byes to be cropping up all over the place, wow.

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

With both NaNo and the holiday season coming up it is certainly going to be interesting to see what happens.

That said, it does actually play into a couple of twists I have up my sleeve for the next few weeks. bwahahahahahahaha!!!

[theafaye.livejournal.com]

Wow. That's shed loads of byes. Good luck to those competing this week!

[callistahogan.livejournal.com]

Wow. Those are a lot of byes. I almost took one this week, but I decided to suck it up and write an entry anyway. I'm glad I did, although that makes the competition in my tribe a little thicker than I expected so early on...

[finding_helena]

Definitely! There are fewer people who might get eliminated because of all the byes.

[stormkitty.livejournal.com]

Good luck everyone! Wow, a lot of byes. There were a lot who commented with byes, but that's a lot who either just forgot or whatever. Hrm.

[soundscool1.livejournal.com]

Oh, crapsticks. I thought I made it.

Oh well, good luck everybody :D

[estelwen.livejournal.com]

Just read your post - it was excellent! Keep writing that well!

[animimi.livejournal.com]

Well, thanks! :) I am full of procrastination this week. My husband reminded me of such when I decided last night to finally make our daughter's Halloween costume that she had to wear today. Heh.

[roina-arwen.livejournal.com]

Wow, look at all those byes! 12, 12, 12, 13, 10, 12 - at least they're pretty evenly divided by tribe!

71 byes for one topic - I think that's a new record!!

[drippedonpaper.livejournal.com]

Sure seems like a lot of byes. Surprised me too.

I think we had harder topics than this one last year (And I am sure we will as the season goes on) I'm surprised so many took byes for this topic.

Maybe everyone is sick...

[estelwen.livejournal.com]

Two tribes I've read (re-read, really, I read as posts went up) and finished the voting on.
Four to go, but not now. Sleep now. Gotta go to work and run a long experiment.
3-hour downtime in the middle, though.

[libra-dragon.livejournal.com]

Good luck everyone. I will be reading what you all wrote this weekend now that I have some of computer troubles figured out.

[cacophonesque.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, seeing all those byes fills me with anxiety! Eek.

I'm slowly making my way through the remaining posts. Being sick for two days slowed me down, and I doubt I'll get to leave many comments. Sorry guys!

Good luck to everyone.

[drippedonpaper.livejournal.com]

Feel better!!:) Sorry you have been sick..

[rejeneration.livejournal.com]

Okay, I'm wondering. Was everyone's week as epically shitty as mine? That was the reason I took a bye, I mean... it was HORRIBLE. Just sheer HORROR. And not the Halloween kind.

My apologies to anyone who suffered.

[norda.livejournal.com]

You have my sympathies. That was my week last week.

Here's to better times.

[morning-stand.livejournal.com]

I agree with everyone else, the first thing I noticed was HOLY BYES BATMAN!

I liked the topic this week. Thanks to clauderainsrm for being my inspiration. Yes, he is actually my grandma.

[jenandbronze.livejournal.com]

"he is actually my grandma"?!

Wha...??? Isn't it Grandpa?

Well Bother!

[diaphoni.livejournal.com]

This one just flat stumped me. I do now have the start of about 7 new short stories though out of trying. :D None of which could work with the topic. I actually ran out of time. I'm on the west coast and I decided that 9pm was my time which would mean I had a whole nother hour. Oops.

[fleeceblankie.livejournal.com]

JMO on all the byes... We only had four days to write an entry. I've been working nonstop the past four days. So I didn't intend to take a bye this week; the time period was just too short. I suspect that was the case for a lot of others, as well.

Not a complaint. Just sayin'. :)

Good luck to everyone!

[kutiechick.livejournal.com]

Same w/ me -- work was in the way of my creativity this week, and I just didn't have the time!

REMINDER CAPTCHAS in comments

[jenandbronze.livejournal.com]

I am still seeing a lot of folks who have captchas, which makes it very difficult for me to leave comments... I *really* like to comment for photodiva02 but I can't....

There are a few others, but can those please double check to make sure they have the captcha turned off in their settings, as it is difficult for those who have limited vision and cannot access audio versions of the captchas.

THANKS!

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Now back to my readings of these great entries.. but, man, look at all those byes!

Re: REMINDER CAPTCHAS in comments

[shadowwolf13]

photodiva02 has a locked journal so nobody can comment unless she counts them as a friend, a handful on entrants this year have this. I will say it's a deterrent to my vote as I'd like at least a chance of conversation on their entry.

[connie]

Oh my gosh, look at all those byes. It makes me feel a little better about having to take one of mine so early, although I was upset earlier about having to use it. My idea for the topic just didn't end up congealing, and by the time I realized that the entry I had half-written wasn't going to pan out, there just wasn't time to come up with and write a new entry that wasn't BS. But yeesh, at this rate I might actually be able to read all the entries after all. Good luck, everyone!

[diaphoni.livejournal.com]

yeah I felt guilty all week for thinking I was gonna have to take the bye this week. At least I see I'm not the only one.

[norda.livejournal.com]

I will be reading entries this weekend, and hopefully getting more of a chance to comment this time around. I still feel rotten for not commenting last week.

[shadowwolf13]

edith_jones did an entry, before the poll. Does that not count?

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

That one was on me. I didn't go back and change it. She won't be penalized for it.

[tigrkittn.livejournal.com]

Wow, here we go again! Scary! I have two tons of reading to do this weekend, don't I? Best get to it! Good luck everyone!!!

[ask-a-sup.livejournal.com]

Good luck to you too!

[beautyofgrey.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow! Even with all the byes, there are so many good entries here! It is hard to chooooooooose....

*goes off to read*

[kittenboo.livejournal.com]

i've got a lot of reading to do, but at least there's less entries to read, lol. Of course that makes less people to be competing against in the poll, yikes!

but now i'm watching The Amazing Jonathan, so everything else will have to wait

[roina-arwen.livejournal.com]

I know! If you weren't one of the nearly 30% who used their bye, it means that your (the generic "your") chance of going home this week has gone up from approximately 1 in 40 to a whopping 1 in 30! Eeek!

[roina-arwen.livejournal.com]

If my spreadsheet is correct, there are now 19 contestants who have used up both of their available byes - so it'll either be "write or perish" for them from here on in!

[comedychick.livejournal.com]

I'm wondering how many of those are people who signed up and just forgot about the contest!

[negativeneve.livejournal.com]

Wow, those are a lot of byes...I think clauderainsrm is going to use it against us in the future.

I've never done this compeptition before, so I'm curious. What type of "twists" does he usually give? ;)

[connie]

This is just a random guess that I made up, but I'm wondering if he's going to give us a really short writing period or multiple entries in one week at some point because so many people have used their byes! Gary is sort of evil sometimes! ;)

[mstrobel.livejournal.com]

HOW is it voting time already?! This week just flew by!