***December Photo Contest Prelims are now up in GD***

[soup]

round 1
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7218630

round 2
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7218650

round 3
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7218673

Thank you and Good luck, everyone.

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edit:

My sincere apologies to jethro_tull.

I forgot that the quotation marks would make your title invisible in the poll. Blue_in_AK caught it quickly, and it was fixed. (thanks Blue)

[Celebration]

1. Great job!!

And thanks to Blue, as well.

We probably need to add that no quotation mark thing to the instructions if it is not there. It is hard to remember. If it is in the instructions it shifts responsibility to the entrants.

Thank you for organizing the contest.

:thumbsup:

[HarveyDarkey]

2. Great job Soup

Do they always go this smoothly? My first contest and I'm still amazed by how quickly and smoothly it all went.

[JeffR]

3. Well done!

Now off to kick them.

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. Getting lots of votes again :^)

[Blue_In_AK]

5. You're most welcome, Soup

It was such a clever title for that picture...A just didn't quite carry the same impact. :rofl:

[soup]

6. Still dealing with some connection issues

Apparently, only one of my morning kicks 'took'. Thread 3 was the only one that managed to get sent back up to the first page at that time. My apologies to the photographers who have entries in poll 1 and 2. It was most definitely not intentional.

...Insert brighthouse rant here and note they ain't heard nothin' yet if they screw up the transition to the finals tonight...

That said -
In the event I can't, would someone please check on the threads today, and make sure they don't disappear?

[Tindalos]

8. Thread 3 usually ends up with fewer votes for some reason

Not sure why, but it's probably due to the delay in posting. I sometimes kick #3 first, ahead of the other two, to help it pick up some votes.

Thanks for posting the finals, Soup.

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[GreenPartyVoter]

9. Yeah, kicking #3 first might help some. :^) I also think bolding the part that shows where

the other two polls are might help, because I am just not sure people are noticing those two links in their hurry to vote. :)

[Mira]

10. I was born curious

and I have not mellowed much. I search for what this symbol means, and cannot find it,
:^)
you use it a lot, and therefore you are the one to hopefully tell me so I can check that question off my list....

[GreenPartyVoter]

11. Tilt your head to the left. It's a smiley face, but I have added a nose. :^D (That one is my very

happy smiley face with a nose.)

I only use it in thread titles, because I have the option of much nicer smilies to choose from for the body of my posts. :D

[Mira]

12. Thank you! Thanks for taking me seriously, I have wondered for a good while now.

:)

[GreenPartyVoter]

13. LOL You aren't the first person to ask me that, and I am sure not the last either.

[GreenPartyVoter]

7. I changed my Lounge post to contain all three links instead of

only the first one. I have noticed the discrepancy in the number of votes in each of the polls and I wondered if people were missing the links to polls 2 and 3 in the body of the poll 1 post. (Not that I am assuming that the Lounge post is solely responsible for the vote drop-off, but I did think it might be involved at least a little.)