Before I post this week’s One-Liner Wednesday I want to record the results of our poll. Since I can’t close a poll and just leave it there (there’s a section to set an expiration time for voting but it seems useless), it seems the poll will remain open on this post.
I’m capping it off here:
As you can see the decision is definite. Our new hashtag is Mr. John Holton’s suggestion of #1linerWeds.
Make sure you use it in your one-liner post this week!
As you may know, after The Great Twitter Fiasco of last week (read about it here if you haven’t already) I decided that we need a new hashtag for One-Liner Wednesday. There were some fantastic suggestions but only four of them turned up to be already unused. (The most popular ones in the last post’s comments–#1LW and #OLW are the most used of all. OLW is for both “Operation Live Well” and “Only Living Witness,” neither of which I feel strong enough to take on … particularly the witness one…)
So here are the ones we can vote for:
Sandra J. Jackson’s #1__erWed
John Holton’s #1linerWeds
Pamela’s #Your1lineWed
or Willow’s #lindas1linerWed
I’ll close the poll before I post this week’s One-Liner Wednesday. If there’s a tie, I’ll decide.
Let’s do this thing!! Vote now!
A few weeks back I was delighted to discover there was an hashtag on Twitter – #1lineWed – that I thought would be nice to use for our weekly prompt of the same name here on WordPress. I spoke to the lady who, I assume, came up with the hashtag. It turned out that it was in use as a prompt for writers to post one line of their work-in-progress on Twitter. The “owner” of the hashtag and I discussed it and came to the conclusion that the more the hashtag was used, the more exposure both our prompts would receive. Good for everyone, right?
However, the “users” of #1lineWed have other ideas. I keep getting complaints that I’m using it wrong – that it’s not for me because I don’t participate in the prompt they’re used to seeing. For instance, this tweet (directly quoted) I received this morning:
in case you didn’t know, this # is for writers to share there lines and there is a theme each week.
I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not worth the hassle of getting chewed out by people who think they own the hashtag. Therefore, I will be changing the “rules” of One-Liner Wednesday once again.
I’ll take suggestions on a hashtag that won’t infringe on anyone else’s ownership rights. One that we can share not only amongst ourselves but with the world in general. Because we’re nice like that. Please leave your ideas in the comments below – if there are enough, maybe we’ll do a poll next week and vote on it. 😀
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