Season Three, Week Fourteen, Members Only Voting

[onyxblue1.livejournal.com]

The contestants have had their say about who their favorite LJ user is . . . now it's YOUR turn.

Some of them embraced the topic, or turned it on its head. Some ran as fast as they could.*g* Some even mentioned ME!!!

Now is your time to cast a vote for YOUR favorite LJ Idol contestants!!! Read the entries and make your picks! The only way they are going to stay in, is for you to vote for them. This week is a double elimination, so unless you get out the vote, two of your favorites could be saying goodbye this week!

Just to make this interesting . . . this is a "friends only" poll. That's right — you have to belong to the community to vote this time around!

I do that every so often, mostly because I'm . . . well . . . me!*g*

Voting starts now and will be open until Friday April 27th at 4pm EST (gmt -4) !



[Poll #973341]

Comments

[oceansedge.livejournal.com]

Oh geeez, the one week I think "Ok I might just have to pimp my friend's list to stay in it." turns out to be a members only vote.

[flutterbychild.livejournal.com]

I voted! Yay!

[oceansedge.livejournal.com]

My gods what a nail biter...

as of 13:30 NST
1 over 30
9 over 20
17/18/19=6
15&16=3
13&14=7
11&12=4

There's less than 10 votes difference between the bottom of the pack and the front runners.

[shalanna.livejournal.com]

Yeah . . . what I find weird is that out of, say, 43 people (at least) who've voted, *most* of them didn't cast votes for those of us barely in the double digits. I suppose we could study the style and topic used by the one(s) who get the votes in the twenties/thirties and try to emulate them so as to pick up more votes, but then we would lose our original voices and the subjects we want to talk about, and besides I'm not sure that would even work.

This is much like traditional publishing, in which you send out your stuff and wait for an individual editor or agent (or the first reader at the company) to look at it . . . and if that person doesn't LOVE it, you get it back. There's no explanation for it, as most really popular blockbuster novels were rejected at least once or twice before being picked up and published. It's all a matter of personal taste, inclinations, and whether the reader was already irritated when he read your writing. . . .

[zebrapix.livejournal.com]

Given the percentages, as of 3:PM Eastern:
108 people voted in Poll #1 and 116 in Poll #2

[spydielives.livejournal.com]

If one happens to have some method of counting impressions, it stings even more. To know how many people have looked at it, and yet to still only have X number of votes.

Granted, it is a community-only vote, while the whole world can view the entry, so the numbers are not directly related. Still...

I wonder if we could embed our own polls in our entries when we put them out there, separate and distinct from the LJ Idol voting, viewable to none. Perhaps a sliding scale, based on our own previous writing:

1: Could be better...
3: About the same
5: Much improved!

Or even a Thumbs Up / Down rating. Heck, I would even abide by a "No Edits" rule once people started commenting that way.

Gary? Anything in the rules? I am in the middle of something, or I would go check myself...

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

you can put anything in your entries that you want. so your own poll embedded in it would be perfectly within the rules.

[shalanna.livejournal.com]

That sounds like a good idea. Actually, I got some code that would serve as a hit counter for my LJ main page, supposedly, but I haven't had a chance to study it thoroughly. It's already e-mailing me a weekly count of hits, but o'course they're always zero, as I haven't pasted the code in where it's supposed to go (but I am registered on the site--hence the e-mail.) I guess that would work for this purpose--you would have a hit counter. Hmm . . . a poll might work just as well, except that there are people who just won't bother with a poll. It makes them go off of their friends page and/or opens a new browser window, and that confuses my aunt, so she won't do polls. (grin) She's REALLY old. But there are people who aren't old who'll still do polls.

Now I'm REALLY depressed. Over a hundred people had the chance to read my magnificently self-absorbed entry and either didn't bother or thought it sucked. *gloom*

And I thought I had it all figgered out, too--a photo essay and all. *doom*

*black cloud with lightning coming out of bottom*

Looking grim here

[shalanna.livejournal.com]

What happens if there's a four-way tie for last place? Do we all get the boot, or will we have a runoff-style writing contest? Pick a topic that I can twist into a "Mama and her hicky redneck knitting club friends" essay, though. *GRIN*