Let the Voting Begin...
Dear Friends,
This is the post where you can comment with your votes for the Top Three Position Winners in qaf_anon.
Please note the following conditions:
1. This is a Screened Post which will only accept comments from Registered LJ Users. Meaning no Anonymous commenting will be accepted, and the comments made will only be viewed by the User who made the comment, and the maintainers/owners of this community.
2. The Registered LJ Users eligible to take part in the voting must have an LJ Account for at least the last 30 days. Meaning, comments made by LJ Users who created LJ Accounts anytime after March 19, 2006 will not be accepted. This is to prevent the possibility of anyone signing up/getting their buddies signed up for new accounts just for the purpose of voting for their story. Not that we think something like this will actually occur. We just want to be on the safe side.
3. Voters may only vote for one story per position. They may not vote for the same story for more than one position. Meaning, if they have voted, say, for Story # 14 for First Place, then for Second Place and Third Place votes, they have to choose a different story. If they choose the same story for more than one position, their vote will be discarded. Any multiple votes/comments made multiple times will be discarded. Any incomplete votes may be discarded.
4. Voters may feel free to vote for themselves.
The voting begins today, on Wednesday, April 19, 2006, as of the posting of this entry. It will go on for the next 10 days, ending on Saturday, April 29, 2006. As you are aware, paddies and kitkatbyte are our official vote-counters. Their impartial involvement --since they don't know who wrote what-- with this project will ensure the transparency and credibility needed for the voting process; unlike myself and severina2001, who are aware of the identities of the author of each entry and have thus decided to take ourselves out of the voting process to maintain complete unbiasedness.
Hoping everything goes according to plan, the winners will be announced by May 1, 2006.
Just to remind the voters, this was the prompt:
"Go ahead, push your luck,
Find out how much love the world can hold"
The way severina2001 and myself saw it was this: the prompt was a starting point for all the stories, the idea that gave them inspiration. It was in no way meant to confine the writers' imaginations within its bounderies. From that starting point, how the plot unfolded and where the story went was at the writers' discretion. Similarly, how the readers take the prompt and how the stories they read affect them is at their discretion.
Here, once again is the list of all the stories posted in the contest:
1. Birthdays
2. Blank Canvas
3. Blessed
4. Born To Love You
5. The Chance You Take
6. Coda
7. Essence
8. Eternal Youth
9. Exponential
10. Falling Like Memory
11. Fatigue
12. Go Ahead
13. Good Then Bad
14. The Gravitational Effects of Rotation
15. Here I Go Impossible Again
16. Impact
17. Love Spins Gold from Time
18. The Luckiest Guy in New York
19. My Aphrodisiac is You
20. Nothing As Good
21. Purple Lines
22. A Rubber Story
23. Seven Conversations About One
24. Seven Months & Three Days Longer Than Trotsky Made It
25. Seventeen
26. Silences
27. Tally Marks
28. Tell Me Again
29. Thin Ice
30. Unlucky
31. Wait For Your heart
32. A Wave Unfurled
33. What Did You Just Say?
34. Wires
Kindly reply back to this post with only your votes. You are encouraged to post your thoughts and feedback on the stories on their respective pages. We request you to use the following format, while considering all the conditions given above, to vote for your favorite entries:
Your First Place Winner Choice:
Your Second Place Winner Choice:
Your Third Place Winner Choice:
Happy reading and voting! :)
ETA: Since each vote has a point, we would request voters to complete their votes; i.e. vote for all three positions, not just one. Thanks!
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ETA 29 April, midnight: Attention Please! It's midnight on Saturday and the Voting is now over. This thread is being LOCKED for counting of the votes. The last vote accepted was from bidet_of_evil. No new votes are being accepted. Thank you!
This is the post where you can comment with your votes for the Top Three Position Winners in qaf_anon.
Please note the following conditions:
1. This is a Screened Post which will only accept comments from Registered LJ Users. Meaning no Anonymous commenting will be accepted, and the comments made will only be viewed by the User who made the comment, and the maintainers/owners of this community.
2. The Registered LJ Users eligible to take part in the voting must have an LJ Account for at least the last 30 days. Meaning, comments made by LJ Users who created LJ Accounts anytime after March 19, 2006 will not be accepted. This is to prevent the possibility of anyone signing up/getting their buddies signed up for new accounts just for the purpose of voting for their story. Not that we think something like this will actually occur. We just want to be on the safe side.
3. Voters may only vote for one story per position. They may not vote for the same story for more than one position. Meaning, if they have voted, say, for Story # 14 for First Place, then for Second Place and Third Place votes, they have to choose a different story. If they choose the same story for more than one position, their vote will be discarded. Any multiple votes/comments made multiple times will be discarded. Any incomplete votes may be discarded.
4. Voters may feel free to vote for themselves.
The voting begins today, on Wednesday, April 19, 2006, as of the posting of this entry. It will go on for the next 10 days, ending on Saturday, April 29, 2006. As you are aware, paddies and kitkatbyte are our official vote-counters. Their impartial involvement --since they don't know who wrote what-- with this project will ensure the transparency and credibility needed for the voting process; unlike myself and severina2001, who are aware of the identities of the author of each entry and have thus decided to take ourselves out of the voting process to maintain complete unbiasedness.
Hoping everything goes according to plan, the winners will be announced by May 1, 2006.
Just to remind the voters, this was the prompt:
"Go ahead, push your luck,
Find out how much love the world can hold"
The way severina2001 and myself saw it was this: the prompt was a starting point for all the stories, the idea that gave them inspiration. It was in no way meant to confine the writers' imaginations within its bounderies. From that starting point, how the plot unfolded and where the story went was at the writers' discretion. Similarly, how the readers take the prompt and how the stories they read affect them is at their discretion.
Here, once again is the list of all the stories posted in the contest:
1. Birthdays
2. Blank Canvas
3. Blessed
4. Born To Love You
5. The Chance You Take
6. Coda
7. Essence
8. Eternal Youth
9. Exponential
10. Falling Like Memory
11. Fatigue
12. Go Ahead
13. Good Then Bad
14. The Gravitational Effects of Rotation
15. Here I Go Impossible Again
16. Impact
17. Love Spins Gold from Time
18. The Luckiest Guy in New York
19. My Aphrodisiac is You
20. Nothing As Good
21. Purple Lines
22. A Rubber Story
23. Seven Conversations About One
24. Seven Months & Three Days Longer Than Trotsky Made It
25. Seventeen
26. Silences
27. Tally Marks
28. Tell Me Again
29. Thin Ice
30. Unlucky
31. Wait For Your heart
32. A Wave Unfurled
33. What Did You Just Say?
34. Wires
Kindly reply back to this post with only your votes. You are encouraged to post your thoughts and feedback on the stories on their respective pages. We request you to use the following format, while considering all the conditions given above, to vote for your favorite entries:
Your First Place Winner Choice:
Your Second Place Winner Choice:
Your Third Place Winner Choice:
Happy reading and voting! :)
ETA: Since each vote has a point, we would request voters to complete their votes; i.e. vote for all three positions, not just one. Thanks!
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ETA 29 April, midnight: Attention Please! It's midnight on Saturday and the Voting is now over. This thread is being LOCKED for counting of the votes. The last vote accepted was from bidet_of_evil. No new votes are being accepted. Thank you!