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July Dumbledore Silver Trinket Awards Poll
It is that time of month again; the time where we raise our esteemed authors upon a pedestal.
The nominations are in and it is up to you, the users of SIYE, to decide which stories are of a caliber that demand recognition.

Voting is open to registered users only. Please take the time to vote for your favourites.

The poll will be up until August 7th.

VOTE HERE

Congratulations to all the nominees and best of luck.

Thank you for your support. Please don't forget to nominate your favourite stories for August.

SIYE Geeks


EDIT:
The vote that you see is for July nominees. If you got a message telling you that you got a nomination for August, your story was submitted past the deadline for July nominations (July 26).

Nominations are currently only visible to admins, however soon you will be able to view historical nominations and see poll results as requested.

The list which goes to vote is a selection of the top nominees, involves a bit of math and attempts to mimic a true electoral system. We select the top 10 stories in each category unless there is a tie. In this case, we resolve the tie by selecting either all or none of the entries with the relevant number of nominations (depending on which falls closer to 10)

The suggestion for Best One-shot is being added. Best New story and New author, while they can be done, will come at a later date, doing those this early in the game makes them tricky and we need to get kinks out 1st so watch, and be on the look out.

The system will post automagicly the nominees to be voted on, and display the results when it is time.

Yours - The Magic Geeks
The Magic Geeks on 2006.08.01 - 12:01AM ()

Comments



cwarbeck came out of the woodwork on 2006.08.01 - 05:07AM to say:

Thanks for the nomination and congratulations to the rest of the nominees. And to the Magic Geeks: WOW! - the voting system is extremely streamlined and professional-looking! Way to go!



AdminQ came out of the woodwork on 2006.08.01 - 08:07AM to say:

cwarbeck -- thanks!



lucky_black_cat came out of the woodwork on 2006.08.01 - 08:15AM to say:

I have to agree with cwarbeck - plain awesome! I couldn't find a better name for our favourite geeks - what you do to improve the site really is magical!



Professor Scroll came out of the woodwork on 2006.08.01 - 08:56AM to say:

great job to all the SIYE Geeks.



Potter47 came out of the woodwork on 2006.08.01 - 09:18AM to say:

Um... I don't really know how the nominations and everything work, but I got a message saying I'd been nominated for Best Action/Adventure for my story "Blood on the Tracks"... and it's not there, so... yeah... I'm confuzzled. Maybe I missed something?



Sovran came out of the woodwork on 2006.08.01 - 09:24AM to say:

I think the new voting interface is wonderful. I'm completely humbled by the nomination, to say the least. Great job!



mommysgrl came out of the woodwork on 2006.08.01 - 09:31AM to say:

yellowitchgrl should be on there too but she's not.



Athea came out of the woodwork on 2006.08.01 - 09:58AM to say:

Wow! What a great new voting system. I love that you can link directly to the stories. Well done Magic Geeks!



Spenser Hemmingway came out of the woodwork on 2006.08.01 - 10:06AM to say:

Wonderful job! I would send your team a case of butterbeer or firewhiskey as a reward, but we seemed to have finished it all off at the party yesterday. Oh my head! I would really like to thank the people who nominated Oh Baby! earlier this month. I'm still getting e-mail about the duct tape. Eric



SilverPhoenix came out of the woodwork on 2006.08.01 - 10:51AM to say:

I like the new voting system. I must say that with this new system in which all you have to do is click a button to nominate someone a lot more excellent stories have appeared--so many that I can't seem to decide which ones to vote on! Congrats to the Magic Geeks and congrats to everyone nominated!



AdminQ came out of the woodwork on 2006.08.01 - 06:06PM to say:

Potter47 and mommysgrl ----- Both of your nominations are in the august list. The vote is for July nominations atm. --Steve



Potter47 came out of the woodwork on 2006.08.01 - 06:25PM to say:

Oh, OK. =) The alert thingy said July, so I was confuzzled. Thank you. =]



YelloWitchGrl came out of the woodwork on 2006.08.01 - 06:29PM to say:

That's really weird... Trinket Nomination You have just received the following nominations: Best Overall (Jul-2006) for your story Harry Potter and the Final Flame Congratulations and best of luck in the competition. I had 2 other messages like that going back several week. How is it that I'm nominated for August? I thought the author had to post in August and I haven't posted this month. I'll have to check through the nomination rules again.



cwarbeck came out of the woodwork on 2006.08.01 - 07:00PM to say:

Maybe you have to get a certain number of nominations in order to make it to the final list of nominees?



greybackfenrir came out of the woodwork on 2006.08.01 - 07:29PM to say:

Wow! I love the new Voting system! : ) Also a BIG Thanx for the nominations! : ) Good luck to all!



AdminQ came out of the woodwork on 2006.08.01 - 10:12PM to say:

More info can always be found in the TechCenter about the DSTA. There are changes to come which will make it harder for the same story or author to win over and over, one of which is you need more votes. As for the msg's for July going out to others, that might be a glitch and we are looking in to it.



Professor Scroll came out of the woodwork on 2006.08.01 - 10:24PM to say:

Congratulations to every story that recieved a nomination this month. Even with this new system, I was amazed at the number of readers who took the time to nominate their favorite stories and authors.

Potter47 and YelloWitchGrl I have reviewed the nominations and your stories were nominated for the month of July. However, more than 40 stories were nominated in Best Overall alone, the majority recieving 1 or 2 nominations. Only the top 9, who recieved between 28 and 6 nominations made it to the polls. Admin Options:



Enchanted came out of the woodwork on 2006.08.02 - 09:05AM to say:

Great job guys,...I love the new layout. It is so much easier to vote this way. Congratulations to all the nominees. Good Luck



lecook4 came out of the woodwork on 2006.08.02 - 09:39AM to say:

Question: If you add the category Best One Shot or you know what I mean; will it have limitations like the Contests? Like rating, sized in word count, etc. I think it probably should have some size limitation, but not sure if anyone else would agree.

How about Best New Author or Best First Story. Was that already mentioned? I think it was. Never mind. This new voting thing is so cool I just keep adding categories, LOL!



Sovran came out of the woodwork on 2006.08.02 - 10:08AM to say:

I think 'Best New Story' would be great. That ship has sailed for me, but it would be nice be directed towards new stories that people like. It could be for any story, one-shot or chaptered, that had its first (or only) chapter posted in the month in question.



cwarbeck came out of the woodwork on 2006.08.02 - 10:49AM to say:

Hi, I think there's a minor glitch in the nomination system for August. I just got a notice that my story was nominated for the August DSTA (thank you whoever you are), but it doesn't qualify for it anymore. I think the stories submitted during the tail end of July have been marked as eligible for August nominations. Just wanted to let the Magic Geeks know...



Buttamellow came out of the woodwork on 2006.08.02 - 05:08PM to say:

I'm afraid I'm confused as well. I also received a message that stated I had received a nomination for Angst and Romance for one of my stories and it doesn't appear on there. Is it a mix-up or was it for August instead? Sorry for the confusion.



Professor Scroll came out of the woodwork on 2006.08.02 - 07:55PM to say:

, yes, I see a July nomination for your story, but the ones that made the poll had multiple nominations. Not everyone will make the cut off for the polls. Each category had more than 25 different stories nominated in July,



The Magic Geeks came out of the woodwork on 2006.08.02 - 11:38PM to say:

The vote that you see is for July nominees. If you got a message telling you that you got a nomination for August, your story was submitted past the deadline for July nominations.

Nominations are currently only visible to admins, however soon you will be able to view historical nominations and see poll results as requested.

The list which goes to vote is a selection of the top nominees, involves a bit of math and attempts to mimic a true electoral system. We select the top 10 stories in each category unless there is a tie.

The suggestion for Best One-shot is being added. Best New story and New author, while they can be done, will come at a later date, doing those this early in the game makes them tricky and we need to get kinks out 1st so watch, and be on the look out.

The system will post automagicly the nominees to be voted on, and display the results when it is time.

Yours - The Magic Geeks





dramaqueen came out of the woodwork on 2006.08.02 - 11:50PM to say:

As a new catagory, what about Most Original? I think I've mentioned that before, but I thought I would again. :-D



AdminQ came out of the woodwork on 2006.08.03 - 12:00AM to say:

Thanks you DQ - Hear ya on that one and it will be added to other suggested categories to come later. :-)


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