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Something weird happened the other day. I found two review replies for stories I had reviewed last year. One was dated 16 Jan. and the other 19 Jan. To the best of my knowledge I never received them previously, so I know that these weren't random glitches, especially when one of my authors contacted me with the following:

"I had a strange thing happen yesterday. Do you know any reason why a review reply dated Saturday 16th January 2010 came through to my email yesterday on 19th June? Can you ask about this, and find out? Are there other review replies held up in the system for me?

I got a low 'review/vote' response from authors last year out of the 52 reviews I submitted, and am now wondering if there was a system error happening. I also wonder if my own reviewers got my own 'review/vote replies' which I sent to all of them."

And I have to wonder as well. Both mine and the one mentioned by the author are dated in January. I wonder if that is significant? Anyway, if anyone in Admin has an explanation, I would appreciate hearing it so I can pass it on to my author.

Thanks,
Fiondil

Me too - I got one a couple of days ago dated January 15th.

The same thing happened to me (also on June 19th), with review responses
from January 15th and 17th, so with four people reporting, this probably
isn't an isolated incident. I find it interesting that all the mails were
from roughly mid-January, so perhaps the glitch was discovered and fixed at
some point soon after, only the emails were already in the system and set to
be sent on June 19th. But then I don't have a clue about the archive
software and am very much poking around in the dark here.

Elleth

On 20 June 2010 14:33, elhanan_austin <namondil@gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> Something weird happened the other day. I found two review replies for
> stories I had reviewed last year. One was dated 16 Jan. and the other 19
> Jan. To the best of my knowledge I never received them previously, so I know
> that these weren't random glitches, especially when one of my authors
> contacted me with the following:
>
> "I had a strange thing happen yesterday. Do you know any reason why a
> review reply dated Saturday 16th January 2010 came through to my email
> yesterday on 19th June? Can you ask about this, and find out? Are there
> other review replies held up in the system for me?
>
> I got a low 'review/vote' response from authors last year out of the 52
> reviews I submitted, and am now wondering if there was a system error
> happening. I also wonder if my own reviewers got my own 'review/vote
> replies' which I sent to all of them."
>
> And I have to wonder as well. Both mine and the one mentioned by the author
> are dated in January. I wonder if that is significant? Anyway, if anyone in
> Admin has an explanation, I would appreciate hearing it so I can pass it on
> to my author.
>
> Thanks,
> Fiondil
>
>
>


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I, too, got a review yesterday, dated from January 17.

- Barbara


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I tried to review last year, but since I'd just fried my laptop and
was working my work and a loaner computer, the default emails ended up
being a terrible mess to try to manage to get it not to send (and
reply to) my work email and I ended up actually sending few if any.
:(

Becky/Sue L (Huffman) Burkheart [how did life get so complicated?!?]
~ A Hard Hero is Good to Find ~ www.WritingHorses.com





On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 7:52 AM, Elleth
<nerdanel.istarnie@googlemail.com> wrote:

> The same thing happened to me (also on June 19th), with review responses
> from January 15th and 17th, so with four people reporting, this probably
> isn't an isolated incident. I find it interesting that all the mails were
> from roughly mid-January, so perhaps the glitch was discovered and fixed at
> some point soon after, only the emails were already in the system and set to
> be sent on June 19th. But then I don't have a clue about the archive
> software and am very much poking around in the dark here.
>
> Elleth
>
> On 20 June 2010 14:33, elhanan_austin <namondil@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Something weird happened the other day. I found two review replies for
>> stories I had reviewed last year. One was dated 16 Jan. and the other 19
>> Jan. To the best of my knowledge I never received them previously, so I know
>> that these weren't random glitches, especially when one of my authors
>> contacted me with the following:
>>
>> "I had a strange thing happen yesterday. Do you know any reason why a
>> review reply dated Saturday 16th January 2010 came through to my email
>> yesterday on 19th June? Can you ask about this, and find out? Are there
>> other review replies held up in the system for me?
>>
>> I got a low 'review/vote' response from authors last year out of the 52
>> reviews I submitted, and am now wondering if there was a system error
>> happening. I also wonder if my own reviewers got my own 'review/vote
>> replies' which I sent to all of them."
>>
>> And I have to wonder as well. Both mine and the one mentioned by the author
>> are dated in January. I wonder if that is significant? Anyway, if anyone in
>> Admin has an explanation, I would appreciate hearing it so I can pass it on
>> to my author.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Fiondil
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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Hello Fiondil and all,

This is not something "weird," really, though maybe it takes a bit of
explaining. When you reply to a reviewer, you send an email to a certain
email address. A volunteer then forwards this email to your reviewer. Last
year, some responses to reviews came in after the volunteer stopped
forwarding emails, so I forwarded them this year, when I logged in to
forward Ellynn's replies.

If memory serves, *everyone* gets a pretty low response-to-review ratio. I
really don't think this is a site malfunction or anything, since all you're
doing is sending an email to some address. If there's a technical problem,
it has to do with whatever email program you use - if there was an error
with the site, then *no* replies would be happening. But really, I think
it's just that people don't often reply to reviews at sites like ours.

Marta

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com [mailto:MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com] On
> Behalf Of elhanan_austin
> Sent: Sunday, June 20, 2010 8:33 AM
> To: MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [MEFAwards] Late review replies?
>
>
>
> Something weird happened the other day. I found two review replies for
> stories I had reviewed last year. One was dated 16 Jan. and the other
> 19 Jan. To the best of my knowledge I never received them previously,
> so I know that these weren't random glitches, especially when one of my
> authors contacted me with the following:
>
> "I had a strange thing happen yesterday. Do you know any reason why a
> review reply dated Saturday 16th January 2010 came through to my email
> yesterday on 19th June? Can you ask about this, and find out? Are there
> other review replies held up in the system for me?
>
> I got a low 'review/vote' response from authors last year out of the 52
> reviews I submitted, and am now wondering if there was a system error
> happening. I also wonder if my own reviewers got my own 'review/vote
> replies' which I sent to all of them."
>
> And I have to wonder as well. Both mine and the one mentioned by the
> author are dated in January. I wonder if that is significant? Anyway,
> if anyone in Admin has an explanation, I would appreciate hearing it so
> I can pass it on to my author.
>
> Thanks,
> Fiondil
>
>
>
>

This is actually the first I'm hearing that we are *able* to reply to the reviews we get. I didn't think it was possible and so simply never looked for a 'reply to review' button. I will be looking this year!

Is there such a button/link or is there something special we have to do?

--- In MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com, "telperion1" <marta.fandom@...> wrote:

> If memory serves, *everyone* gets a pretty low response-to-review ratio. I
> really don't think this is a site malfunction or anything, since all you're
> doing is sending an email to some address. If there's a technical problem,
> it has to do with whatever email program you use - if there was an error
> with the site, then *no* replies would be happening. But really, I think
> it's just that people don't often reply to reviews at sites like ours.
>
> Marta
>

Hiya Linda,

When reviews are posted at the MEFA website, you will see a special link
beside your reviews. I forget exactly what it says, but it's something like
"Reply to Review." If you click on that, this brings up a pop-up window,
that gives you instructions for how to reply to that review. You will either
have the option to click on a link to open an email automatically for you,
or if that doesn't work, you will be given a subject line that you can copy
into an email.

For more on this see:

http://www.mefawards.net/MEFA2010/index.php?page=FAQvoting#vot_20

You can always email your reviewer privately, if you know them. But since
the MEFA website wants people to be able to review without giving out their
email address, we don't share that information with authors. Instead we
offer to forward emails *to* the author on your behalf, when you don't know
how to reach them.

Marta

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com [mailto:MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com] On
> Behalf Of Linda
> Sent: Monday, June 21, 2010 10:39 AM
> To: MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [MEFAwards] Re: Late review replies?
>
>
>
> This is actually the first I'm hearing that we are *able* to reply to
> the reviews we get. I didn't think it was possible and so simply never
> looked for a 'reply to review' button. I will be looking this year!
>
> Is there such a button/link or is there something special we have to
> do?
>
> --- In MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com <mailto:MEFAwards%40yahoogroups.com> ,
> "telperion1" <marta.fandom@...> wrote:
>
> > If memory serves, *everyone* gets a pretty low response-to-review
> ratio. I
> > really don't think this is a site malfunction or anything, since all
> you're
> > doing is sending an email to some address. If there's a technical
> problem,
> > it has to do with whatever email program you use - if there was an
> error
> > with the site, then *no* replies would be happening. But really, I
> think
> > it's just that people don't often reply to reviews at sites like
> ours.
> >
> > Marta
> >
>
>
>
>

Ah, that explains it! Thank you for the information, Marta.

- Barbara

On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 12:19 PM, telperion1 <marta.fandom@gmail.com> wrote:

> When you reply to a reviewer, you send an email to a certain
>
> email address. A volunteer then forwards this email to your reviewer. Last
> year, some responses to reviews came in after the volunteer stopped
> forwarding emails, so I forwarded them this year, when I logged in to
> forward Ellynn's replies.
>
> I
>


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Please forgive the late and off-topic (I think) reply here, Fiondil, but in lieu of individual responses, I thanked my reviewers (including you) through a public post on my LJ:

http://pandemonium-213.livejournal.com/153548.html

I know that such a catch-all thank you is gauche, and that my mother would remind me that handwritten thank you notes on vellum are in order ;^), but there it is. My appreciation is no less heartfelt.

I have to admit that I prefer public venues for responses to reviews or if replies are private, that these are person-to-person with no third party involved.

Anyway, mea culpa if you or anyone else felt slighted by my orcish lack of manners.

--

Actually, I wasn't pointing a finger at any one person but was just wondering why after all this time these particular reviews showed up. *grin* As I generally don't do LJ I would have no means of knowing you had thanked anyone, least of all me. I did not reply to everyone's review myself as I was traveling after the New Year and just couldn't get to everyone that I wanted to, but I doubt anyone was upset that I didn't.

And since Marta was able to explain the reason why some people, including myself, suddenly got these reviews 6 months late, to me it's now a non-issue.

Fiondil