Reply To: Machinima.com contest
I can see that some videos have star rankings now, but I can’t figure out how to vote myself. Clciking the rows of stars doesn’t do anything. When you click the video to watch it, there’s text that says “Rate This Entry” with stars underneath it, but clicking those stars doesn’t do anything either.
Does anyone know what the secret is to being able to cast a vote? I’ve even registered at Machinima.com, thinking maybe you need to be a member there to cast a vote, and that didn’t work.
Here’s the text from the official rules. They say clicking on the stars should do it. They also say the rating will be in red, which isn’t true…
Starting at midnight, August 2, 2008 (that being 0:00:00 A.M. PDT), anyone can simply go to a video entry page, review the video, and rate the video by clicking on the stars. Voting will end on 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time on August 9, 2008.
If no one has rated the video yet, all stars will be blank. If others have rated the video, the weighted average will appear with red filling in the stars. The weighted average displayed is rounded to the nearest half point, i.e. 3.5, 4.0, etc., though our database keeps the actual number. When an online user rates an entry video, the current selection shows stars highlighted with a gold border. The red coloring is still the overall weighted average with that entrys rating included.
Each online visitor can only rate a video once. If an online visitor changes their mind about the rating that they have given to you entry, the most recent rating selected will be calculated into the total, and the previous selection will be removed. So voting a hundred times for one entry will only result in one vote for an entry.