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My feeling is that if we switch a story from incomplete to complete at
any time, the people who have already reviewed it need to have an
option to change their reviews if they decide to. If the switch takes
place during reading season, it's not an issue. The problem comes in
when we switch during voting season. Final reviews can't be changed at
that point.

I like the suggestion (by sulriel, maybe?) of changing final votes to
tentative before changing the story's status from incomplete to
complete. But I'm not sure how much work this would take, or even if
it's technically feasible.

For everyone's information, I'm including the email I sent to Lea on
this topic.

Marta
*****
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--- Marta Layton <melayton@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Lea,
>
> I'm cc'ing Ainae in on this.
>
> I've scanned the FAQs and rules at
> http://home.earthlink.net/~ainae/mefa/ , and I
> can'tfind anything that
> addresses this question.
>
> My personal feeling is that things shouldn't be
> moved past the end of
> reading season. This is why: Let's say I voted for
> "A Spring of Joy"
> before it was completed. It's later finished, but I
> don't think the
> last chapters are very good. So I don't think it
> deserves as many
> points, so I go and shorten up my review. I can do
> this during reading
> season, but during voting season I can't if the
> review has the status
> "final".
>
> That's my reasoning, anyway. ;-)
>
> To recap: I don't think an incomplete story should
> be changed to
> complete during voting season. What do you think,
> Ainae?
>
> Marta
>
> On 17 Aug 2005, at 21:05, Leaward wrote:
>
>> Now that we're to voting season are stories that
> are in the incomplete
>> section and get completed staying in the
> incomplete section or what
>> happens to them?
>>
>> I notice that Daw's A Spring of Joy (Drama
> includes Angst: Incomplete)
>> is now completed ...
>>
>> Was just wondering ...
>>
>> Lea
>>

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Thanks, Marta, I hadn't wanted to post your email without your
permission...

If the votes can be switched back to tentative that's fine, as long as
the reviewer realizes that's happened and can rewrite them.
Personally I've lost track of who I've reviewed and if I think I've
set them all to final, I'm unlikely to go back and look for tentatives
and they might never get changed and automatically switch to final at
the end of the voting season anyway.

It does become quite a nightmare ...

Lea

--- In MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com, Marta Layton <melayton@g...> wrote:
> My feeling is that if we switch a story from incomplete to complete at
> any time, the people who have already reviewed it need to have an
> option to change their reviews if they decide to. If the switch takes
> place during reading season, it's not an issue. The problem comes in
> when we switch during voting season. Final reviews can't be changed at
> that point.
>
> I like the suggestion (by sulriel, maybe?) of changing final votes to
> tentative before changing the story's status from incomplete to
> complete. But I'm not sure how much work this would take, or even if
> it's technically feasible.
>
> For everyone's information, I'm including the email I sent to Lea on
> this topic.
>
> Marta
> *****
(email snipped)