{"assets":[],"author_link":"author\/pov\/","author_name":"PoV","cat":"LD - Misc","categories":["LD - Misc"],"comments":[],"epoch":1251052080,"event":"","likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"77192","p_author":"PoV","p_authorkey":"0","p_urlkey":"285917","p_title":"Help us fix the voting","p_cat":"LD - Misc","p_event":"LD15","p_time":"1251052080","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"0","p_status":"WAYBACK","us_key":null,"us_name":null,"us_username":null,"event_start":"1251417600","event_key":"1","event_name":"LD15"},"source_url":"2009\/08\/23\/help-us-fix-the-voting\/","text":"<p>Hey everybody!<\/p>\n<p>Probably the biggest thing that didn\u2019t go well last time was entry voting.\u00a0 So we\u2019d like your help to artificially create similar conditions as last time, that way we can tweak a few things before the real compo begins.<\/p>\n<p>So here\u2019s what I\u2019d like you to do.\u00a0 First off:<\/p>\n<h2><strong>READ THIS CAREFULLY<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>We\u2019re going to create a fake compo that happened sometime in the year 2000.\u00a0 <strong>The year is important<\/strong>, because we don\u2019t want to litter the front page with these posts.<\/p>\n<h2>SERIOUSLY! READ THIS CAREFULLY!<\/h2>\n<p>Create a new post and do <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>ALL<\/strong><\/span> the following.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Choose the category <strong>LD Test<\/strong> from the categories box.<\/li>\n<li>Add a <strong>Final<\/strong> tag in the Post Tags box (<strong>don\u2019t forget to click Add<\/strong>)<\/li>\n<li>Set the date to any day in the <strong>year 2000<\/strong>.\u00a0 You can change this in the Publish box, by clicking Edit beside \u201cPublish immediately\u201d.\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">*IMPORTANT*<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Upload<\/strong><\/span> a screenshot <strong>to the blog<\/strong>!<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> You <strong>must <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">upload a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">new<\/span> image<\/span>!<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/2008\/08\/10\/how-to-upload-an-image\/\">Tutorial here<\/a>.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Give your post a reasonable (or silly) name.\u00a0 Pick a tasteful (or silly) picture.\u00a0 And fill the body of the post with some text, just for completeness.<\/p>\n<h2>DID YOU ACTUALLY READ ALL 4 THINGS?<\/h2>\n<p>If you did this right, you should show up here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/category\/ld-test\/\">http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/category\/ld-test\/<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Checklist (circle your answer)<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>I picked a date in Y2k (i.e. year 2000) <strong>[True\/False]<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>I uploaded an image to the blog  <strong>[True\/False]<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>My image shows up in the grid <strong>[True\/False]<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>I couldn\u2019t think of a 4th point, but is your image showing up in the grid? <strong>[True\/False]<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you\u2019re screenshot is uploaded correctly, it should show up when you click \u201cshow me the grid\u201d at the top of that page.\u00a0 If you don\u2019t, then for whatever reason your image isn\u2019t in your posts local gallery (some wordpress feature we\u2019re utilizing to make the grid work).\u00a0 Delete your image, and re upload it (i.e. step 4).<\/p>\n<p>Thanks!<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-6341\"><\/span>PS: The answers should all be true.<\/p>","time":"August 23rd, 2009 6:28 pm","title":"Help us fix the voting","title_was_empty":false}