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Hi guys,

I noticed on the MEFA2005 website's form to submit a vote it says the
following:

"Only the characters abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789.,;"\!?-()
count toward the review's score."

I might be wrong, but didn't we also count the asterisk (*) last year?
It certainly has a legitimate place in review comments, because it
marks out words you'd like to emphasise, for example:

"This piece truly is an example how *not* to write Tolkien slash"

or

"Finally! An author who understands that Frodo wasn't *only* trying to
save Middle-earth, he was trying to save the Shire as well."

I don't know if this was discussed and I forgot, but it seems like
they're a legitimate character. I mean, it's not like it's a string of
nonsense characters (i.e., ###############) meant just to bolster the
character count.

Marta
*****
On the other hand, you have different fingers.

True, but it is something that would require more work for Anthony and
another announcement telling anyone with *s to reopen and save their
comments. Since it accounts for only 2-4 characters per comment, I'll not
worry about it. If Anthony wants to fix it, we'll let him.

--Ainaechoiriel
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Marta Layton
> Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2005 3:29 PM
> To: MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [MEFAwards] possible addition of counted character?
>
>
> Hi guys,
>
> I noticed on the MEFA2005 website's form to submit a vote it says the
> following:
>
> "Only the characters abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789.,;"\,!?-()
> count toward the review's score."
>
> I might be wrong, but didn't we also count the asterisk (*)
> last year?
> It certainly has a legitimate place in review comments,
> because it marks out words you'd like to emphasise, for example:
>
> "This piece truly is an example how *not* to write Tolkien slash"
>
> or
>
> "Finally! An author who understands that Frodo wasn't *only*
> trying to save Middle-earth, he was trying to save the Shire as well."
>
> I don't know if this was discussed and I forgot, but it seems
> like they're a legitimate character. I mean, it's not like
> it's a string of nonsense characters (i.e., ###############)
> meant just to bolster the character count.
>
> Marta
> *****
> On the other hand, you have different fingers.
>
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Perhaps we should keep a list of little things
like this for next year. It's not really
something that needs to be discussed at length in
the post-mortem, but it might just get forgotten
in the midst of everything at the end of this
year!

Resha

--- Ainaechoiriel <mefaadmin@earthlink.net>
wrote:
---------------------------------
True, but it is something that would require
more work for Anthony and another announcement
telling anyone with *s to reopen and save their
comments. Since it accounts for only 2-4
characters per comment, I'll not worry about it.
If Anthony wants to fix it, we'll let him.


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That's a good idea - I use * to when I want to emphasise something. This year I will be happy to find and use an alternative, but it would be handy next year.

And I was noticing a couple of little category things when I was doing my nominations that I'll jot down for after the awards : )

Mari

>Perhaps we should keep a list of little things
>like this for next year.  It's not really
>something that needs to be discussed at length in
>the post-mortem, but it might just get forgotten
>in the midst of everything at the end of this
>year!
>
>Resha
>
>--- Ainaechoiriel <mefaadmin@earthlink.net>
>wrote:
>---------------------------------
> True, but it is something that would require
>more work for Anthony and another announcement
>telling anyone with *s to reopen and save their
>comments.  Since it accounts for only 2-4
>characters per comment, I'll not worry about it.
>If Anthony wants to fix it, we'll let him.
>
>
>~To forgive calls upon our love, to forget calls upon our strength~
>
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