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> Is this just so it's easier to see where a comment begins and ends?

Ooops, I meant "_quotations_ should be enclosed in quotation marks".
Just to differentiate between voter's words and author's words.
As I wrote some time ago:
I didn't do it sometimes, because it was clear
through the formatting in the vote.
But the formatting got lost in the procedure.

I added now another entry into the database.

> It would be good though to have a good way to show where a
> comment begins and ends.

Yes, I think so too.
But definitely not quotation marks,
I would use # to identify start and end of vote.

Thus missing parts of the vote will be easier to detect.

> Because we did see some that started right after
> the title--on
> the same line. Or that still had the summary in the ballot,
> which made it
> hard to tell where the comment started.

That would be covered by starting the vote with #.

> Or, I could make it even simpler and put a line under the
> summary on the
> ballot, so votes have to go beneath that. I could also
> remove the summary
> from the ballot. I left it in there this year so that it
> might help voters
> remember which story is which.
>

No, please leave the summary on the ballot.
It made it much easier to identify a story.

Sorry for the confusion,
maybe it was worth something ;-)

Best wishes Elanor

-----Original Message-----
From: elanor of aquitania [mailto:elanor@codacode.net]
Sent: Saturday, December 11, 2004 3:08 PM
To: MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com
Subject: AW: [MEFAwards] PM: comments have to be enclosed in quotation marks

> Is this just so it's easier to see where a comment begins and ends?

>Ooops, I meant "_quotations_ should be enclosed in quotation marks".

Just to differentiate between voter's words and author's words.
As I wrote some time ago:
I didn't do it sometimes, because it was clear through the formatting in the
vote.
But the formatting got lost in the procedure.

Well, we're limiting quoting next year anyway, so it will have to be in
quotation marks (that's correct punctuation unless you're quoting a large
block--which we won't be doing.)

So putting quotes in quotation markes is a given.

>I added now another entry into the database.

Taken care of.

>> It would be good though to have a good way to show where a comment
> begins and ends.

>Yes, I think so too.

But definitely not quotation marks,
I would use # to identify start and end of vote.

>Thus missing parts of the vote will be easier to detect.

I think we'll either use a line or the VOTE HERE: thing. Sometimes you have
to be blunt. But, if we go automated and vote on the web, we won't need
this at all!

>> Or, I could make it even simpler and put a line under the summary on
> the ballot, so votes have to go beneath that. I could also remove the
> summary from the ballot. I left it in there this year so that it
> might help voters remember which story is which.
>

>No, please leave the summary on the ballot.

It made it much easier to identify a story.

I agree. I may not remember titles. I'll leave them in.

>Sorry for the confusion,

maybe it was worth something ;-)

No problem, the confusion created a good suggestion.

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