Vote - Second Chance - Week 1

[clauderainsrm]

A few words from clauderainsrm:
My apologies for how late this is going up! But it's finally here, so... yay

Comments

[medleymisty]

I r noob. :)

And nervous. *bites fingernails*

I've started going through the poll, and dang it - I can't vote for everyone, can I?

[not_hothead_yet]

I'm seriously wondering HOW i'm supposed to vote fairly when its simply impossible to read everyone's entries! I have a life too...

[medleymisty]

The other week I tried to read and vote on all the entries in the main game (obviously didn't have time for that this week with having to write the SCI entry), and I wondered if maybe the first few people in tribe 1 got more comments and votes than the last few people in the last tribe.

One thing that I found helped - scan the entry first and see if it's something you want to read and vote for. That can speed things up a bit, although of course I'm not sure how fair that is either.

[medleymisty]

That's a great idea! Thanks - I'll use it next time.

How do you know how many votes people have before you vote?

[medleymisty]

I do that some too, and then when the poll goes up I go ahead and click on all the names that I remember wanting to vote for.

I've heard one other mention of a spreadsheet, and I do think I have OpenOffice on this computer. But I've never been that organized, lol.

[theafaye]

Absolutely you can! It would be a little pointless, but if you felt that everyone deserved a vote, you're more than entitled to do that.

I remember someone a season or two back posting saying that if you only vote for a couple of people, you give them an advantage, if you vote for everyone except a couple of people you give them a disadvantage and if you vote for a middling number it doesn't impact that much. I don't know if that's true or not, but I'm notoriously stingy with my votes, so if you vote for everyone, we'll balance each other out!

[medleymisty]

I was just trying to say that all the entries I had read so far were really good. :)

I voted for a middling number, so I guess I didn't have much of an impact. ;)

[medleymisty]

I worked it out and finished my voting at lunch today. :)

Those are good criteria. I'm a language nut myself, so I also look for sentence structure and the sounds of the words.

[jem0000000]

Technically you can, but that just means everyone goes up a point! :)

Some weeks are like that, though.

Welcome, and good luck!