Like n3m3sis43 said above, I am a spreadsheet queen. I swear by it. It makes the voting process easier for me, especially since I read those who posted in the topic thread first after I'm done writing my entry and have it posted.
I'd say I'm pretty hardcore about voting, but I try to give everyone a fair chance. I do start out reading everything. In the beginning of a season where there's a lot of fucking people, you have three paragraphs-ish. Maybe not even that. If I've developed a liking for you, I stick it out longer. If I'm not interested/bored already/already angry about how you started your entry, n, move on. I'm a slow reader and we don't have a lot of time as it is. But I DO give everyone's entry a chance.
If you pass the first three paragraphs-ish test, I usually finish the piece unless it drags and I get bored, then again with the n. Things that immediately pull me out are grammar errors. I can overlook a few, as long as they don't hamper how the piece is read, but if there's a bunch of them? Yeah, I'm not sticking it out. N. If I want to backbutton but tell myself to hold out a little longer, you're likely getting an n, too, unless your ending is amazing.
If I'm feeling pretty neutral about a piece after I finish reading it, you're likely still getting an n. Even if you are a favorite writer of mine. If it's a piece by someone I don't typically like/get through their piece all the way through, then I might give it a y, because it showed me improvement and I like rewarding that.
I have to be actively engaged with your piece the whole way through to give it a y. If it makes me cry, y. If it makes me laugh out loud and more than once, y. If it makes me think and I liked how it made me think instead of making me feel guilty for something, y. Interesting, odd use of the topic that I can see the connection for, and I enjoyed the piece but may have been a little underwhelmed by it? Y. Really good piece but no topic connection? Probably an N, unless it was THE BEST work out of everything posted (so far, at the time of it being read).
...I am very judgey, okay? There are very few people who consistently get my vote (aside from me voting for myself, lol, I always vote for myself). Even my favorites put out things that underwhelm me at times and I give them an N. My voting spread changes from week to week, definitely.
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I'd say I'm pretty hardcore about voting, but I try to give everyone a fair chance. I do start out reading everything. In the beginning of a season where there's a lot of fucking people, you have three paragraphs-ish. Maybe not even that. If I've developed a liking for you, I stick it out longer. If I'm not interested/bored already/already angry about how you started your entry, n, move on. I'm a slow reader and we don't have a lot of time as it is. But I DO give everyone's entry a chance.
If you pass the first three paragraphs-ish test, I usually finish the piece unless it drags and I get bored, then again with the n. Things that immediately pull me out are grammar errors. I can overlook a few, as long as they don't hamper how the piece is read, but if there's a bunch of them? Yeah, I'm not sticking it out. N. If I want to backbutton but tell myself to hold out a little longer, you're likely getting an n, too, unless your ending is amazing.
If I'm feeling pretty neutral about a piece after I finish reading it, you're likely still getting an n. Even if you are a favorite writer of mine. If it's a piece by someone I don't typically like/get through their piece all the way through, then I might give it a y, because it showed me improvement and I like rewarding that.
I have to be actively engaged with your piece the whole way through to give it a y. If it makes me cry, y. If it makes me laugh out loud and more than once, y. If it makes me think and I liked how it made me think instead of making me feel guilty for something, y. Interesting, odd use of the topic that I can see the connection for, and I enjoyed the piece but may have been a little underwhelmed by it? Y. Really good piece but no topic connection? Probably an N, unless it was THE BEST work out of everything posted (so far, at the time of it being read).
...I am very judgey, okay? There are very few people who consistently get my vote (aside from me voting for myself, lol, I always vote for myself). Even my favorites put out things that underwhelm me at times and I give them an N. My voting spread changes from week to week, definitely.