Prompt 021 Voting

[xlivvielockex.livejournal.com]

I LOVE YOU GUYS! I did a call for icons and we got a slew of fantastic stuff in. Love it!

Remember: PLEASE DO NOT VOTE FOR YOURSELF! Please do not use sock journals to vote for yourself. Please do not pressure your friends to vote for you. Please vote for the best/most creative/most inspired response to the prompt. If you vote for yourself, use a sock journal to vote for yourself, or pressure your friends to vote for you, the votes will not be counted.

Mistakes, let me know ASAP. Thanks!



Fiction:

01. Killing Justine Cooper by bakatulip (Justine Cooper, Bette Porter, L-word crossover, PG13)
02. Colder Than Death by alwaysjbj (Spike/Buffy, PG)
03. In The Heat of the Night by alwaysjbj (Giles/Ethan, R)
04. Living La Vida Scooby by bakatulip (Buffy, Willow, Xander, Buffy/Riley, Xander/Anya, Willow/Tara, PG)
05. The Little Things by divadea (Willow/Xander, G)
06. Soul Goes With by zandra_x (Faith, G)
07. I’ll show you mine if you show me yours by lilachigh (Spike, Angel, PG)
08. Exquisite Heat by skull_theatre (D'Hoffryn, Dark Willow, PG)
09. Little Sister by lauratd (Xander/Dawn, PG)
10. Fair Trade Rules by beer_good_foamy (ATS Ensemble, PG13)
11. Fleeting Touch by alwaysjbj (Willow/Angel, PG)
12. Clockwork by hands_of_blue (Buffy, PG)
13. Lean on Me by hands_of_blue (Willow, Xander, PG)

[Poll #1020576]


Fanart:
01. Soul Trade banner, wallpaper, icons by wereleopard58
02. Soul Trade paperback by lauratd
03. Pulpy Heat by lauratd
04. Regret by americangrl69
05. Fleeting Touch banner by alwaysjbj

[Poll #1020577]


Icons:

1	2	3	4	5
6	7	8	9	10
11	12	13	14	15
16	17	18	19	20
21	22	23	24	25
26	27	28	29	30
31	32	33	34	35
36	37	38	39	40
41	42	43	44	45
46	47	48	49	50

[Poll #1020578]

Comments

[imbaskinrobbins.livejournal.com]

Image Shack apparently ate one of my icons (#35) so I reuploaded it here: http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/1059/heatjj1.png

[xlivvielockex.livejournal.com]

All fixed. :)

[lilachigh.livejournal.com]

Curious - what is a "sock journal"?

[xlivvielockex.livejournal.com]

It is short of sock puppet journal. Basically, it is a journal that is created that has no content. People use it to troll or rig voting. So if I made a journal called something like kellyisasock and then I used it to vote for all my stuff. There is no content in the journal, it is not my primary journal, it is just a puppet for me. :)

Re: voting rules

[xlivvielockex.livejournal.com]

First, thank you for the comment but this really isn't the place for it. Sarah and I have been doing an idea survey for the past month that I pimp out several times a week. That would have been the better place for these kinds of thoughts, not the voting post.

Second, there are several reasons why we do the voting the way that we do. The first (but not most important) is that this is how most challenge communities on Livejournal conduct themselves. I am in 20 challenge comms alone and in each of them, you are not allowed to vote for yourself.

A large reason for this is because everyone thinks that their work is more awesome than anyone else's. That is just human nature. Most of the time, the people who vote are the people who have contributed things. Considering we allow 10 enteries, if each participant vote for just their work, we would never have any winners. I can tell you that we rarely get votes from people who haven't participated for the week. It is usually always participants.

While you said there is "clearly an entry that is superior" that is a matter of opinion. As I said, most people think that their stuff is the best. If you think that your entry for the week is the best, someone might feel it is the worst. As a participant, it is next to impossible to be objective in judging your own work. If your work is truly superior, the other people of this community will vote for it without a participant having to vote for themselves. There has not been one winner yet, in all these weeks, that did not deserve it. And a lot of people who won are not on my flist or friends with me so I am not just saying that. The best usually gets recognized in this community regardless.

Sarah and I are open for suggestions, hence the idea survey but the voting is one thing that we stand firm on. People are not allowed to vote on their own work, the mods are not allowed to vote or be voted upon. This is one thing that will not change. While this is a "community", it is also a contest. A contest that has rules. We have been running for nearly 23 weeks with over 1000 entries so I think we are doing something right. I also think you will be hard pressed to find another challenge community out there that allows people to vote for themselves. However, if you feel that strongly about it, this might not be the place for you as Sarah and I made this one of our first rules and it is not up for debate.

I hope you can understand where we are coming from. Again, as the owners of this community, we do have the final say. We let people give their opinions on so many other aspects of the community but this is one thing we won't budge on.

Re: voting rules

[slaymesoftly.livejournal.com]

Sorry for choosing the wrong place for the comment - I just thought I should do it while I had the thought.

It's pretty irrelevant to me, personally, as I rarely keep up with the prompts well enough to get something in before there is a new prompt. LOL I was thinking more along the lines of a close contest for first place and a writer losing by one vote because he/she couldn't vote for his/her own fic when it was really worthy. It wasn't a personal complaint at all, I just don't recall seeing any other communities that were quite so adamant about it and I thought I'd mention it.

I agree that there have been very few winners that weren't genuinely deserving - the overall quality of the entries is always very high - I just know that when I am voting in communities I always look for the one I feel is the very best. More often than not, it is not mine and that's the way I vote. But once in a very great while, I really like my entry and am not knocked out by any of the others and it is nice to have the freedom to vote for yourself.

But, as I said, it's not really a complaint, just a suggestion. I doesn't matter to me, personally, one way or the other.