Hey guys,
A few days ago I posted an educational post about the different types of
accounts people can have at the meawards.org website. One of the main points
was, if you had a temporary account you could vote for stories nominated but
you could not nominate stories. (Temporary accounts are mostly for authors
who aren't also members of the MEFAwards Yahoo group, and only last a single
year.)
Some people reading that announcement were really on their toes, and they
noticed that they had temporary accounts and that they *could* nominate
stories. That's because we made a mistake when designing the site.
Particularly, there wasn't enough communication between two groups of
volunteers who work with the MEFAs throughout the year - people like me, who
make policy decisions, and people like Aranel, who actually code the
website. When Aranel was designing the new website, she didn't realize that
temporary accounts shouldn't be allowed to nominate pieces. Understandable,
IMO, since policy questions like that are usually my bailiwick. But it led
her to make a mistake when programming the site. Temporary accounts were
given the ability to nominate pieces, which isn't supposed to be the case.
Several people with temporary accounts have already nominated pieces, and
I'm sure several more planned to but haven't gotten around to it. It's not
really unfair to take those nominations away in either case, because those
participants were only relying on what the website told them. (We do try to
make it accurate!) Because of that, the other volunteers and I have decided
not to change the mistake for this year.
FOR THIS YEAR ONLY, both temporary and permanent accounts can nominate
pieces. Next year things will go back to how they were, where only permanent
accounts can nominate fics.
If you have any questions about this change, please don't hesitate to ask!
Elen sila lumenn omentielvo,
Marta
(MEFA Admin.)