How To Vote -- Helpful Hints

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Since many people have asked how to vote, and since there are a lot of new members to the Forum and new to the Informal Wishlist, following are some helpful hints.

To vote for the Daily Free Design –

1. Go to the Daily Free Design page
http://www.designsbysick.com/votingresults

See if there’s anything there for which you’d like to cast one or more of your daily allotment of 3 votes.
You can click on See Set to see what the set looks like
Or you can click on Vote for Design in Set to see the set and if you click on one or more of the design links below the designs you can cast a vote or votes that way.

2. Choose a design from a set you wish to vote for by going to Search http://www.designsbysick.com/search
or Design Sets http://www.designsbysick.com/products/page1 (this takes you to the most recent page)
and finding that design set. Scroll to the bottom of the design set page or go to the side of where the design sets are pictured and click on Vote for a Design. From that, choose the design for which you wish to cast your vote by clicking on the link beneath the design. It works the same way as it does on the voting results page (above)

3. Go to The Free Daily PES Informal Wishlist in Forums
http://www.designsbysick.com/forums/...ries-t540.html
and choose a wish there. Read the wish in the top line, click on the link in the second line, and then find that wish in the set and vote for it. Those of us who requested wishes list vote the top 3 designs on the list, if possible. If a top wish has already won or is on 7 Day Voting Hold, we just vote for the top three links that work.

4. Cast your votes using a combination of the top three ways to vote.

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P.S. Bonus hints for the Wishlist: For the most wishes to be granted in the shortest time, it’s ideal for all wishers to vote every day for the top 3 wishes. It seems when a wish appears on the Daily Free Design as a Runner Up, then it has an even better chance at becoming a winner – and sooner, too.

Here’s why: Currently, there are over 50 folks with wishes on the list. If everyone votes for the top 3, then those 3 will probably appear as Runners Up, and 1 wish will probably win. Sometimes, a person will post and say, “I’m voting for #1 wish, and #2 wish, plus my own wish every day until I get my wish.”

Since voting is voluntary and private, each person can vote her (or his) own way. It’s not a matter of a ‘right’ way to vote or a ‘wrong’ way to vote. But when a person votes in that manner, it takes even longer to have her (or his) wish granted. Why? She (or he) slows down movement on the wishlist because that #3 wish isn’t getting the votes necessary to become a Runner Up and a potential winning wish. By inadvertently slowing the Wishlist down, voting for “my own wish” means it will take just that much longer for “my own wish” to move into the top 3.

Also, voting for various designs within a collection has, at times, caused a specific wish to be delayed by a week or more. How does this happen? Suppose wishlist member A requests design #1 from a collection. When design #1 gets to a top position on the list, if folks vote for design #1, and design #2, design #3 from the same collection, then all 3 of those designs may appear as Runners Up on the next day's Free Daily Design page. Then, momentum takes over and design #2 or #3 may be more popular with the voting public-at-large. Sure enough, the following day, design #2 wins. So, our unfortunate wishlist member has to wait at least another week (while that design collection is on 7 Day Voting Hold) before we can help her again with our votes for design #1. This means if you're trying to help a member get her (or his) wish, please vote for the exact wish on the list.

BTW, over the last year, about 70% of the Daily Free Design winners were from the Informal Wishlist; and about 25% were from new designs from page 1.

[stitchin in texas]

I don't know how to do much on forums - but thanks for explaining about the voting!