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Hi,

I've just got a quick question. How do I find out which and how many
stories are nominated in a certain category?

Not "other fiction", but rather AU, epic, WIP and that kind of thing?

Or will that only be possible once voting season begins?

At the moment it seems rather impossible to find the kind of story I'm
actually interested in reading & reviewing.

Yours
JunoMagic

JunoMagic wrote:
Hi JunoMagic

> I've just got a quick question. How do I find out which and how many
> stories are nominated in a certain category?
>
> Not "other fiction", but rather AU, epic, WIP and that kind of thing?

Not yet. After the 15th of June (when nomination season is over) we will
start categorising and assigning the stories to the categories they run in.

> Or will that only be possible once voting season begins?

As of reading season (so after categorisation) you can, I think that
might be beginning of July.

> At the moment it seems rather impossible to find the kind of story I'm
> actually interested in reading & reviewing.

I understand what you mean, I can understand where you're coming from,
but right now you can sort by storytype, author and review status.

Rhapsody

On 22/5/06 9:02 am, "JunoMagic" <Juno@magic.ms> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've just got a quick question. How do I find out which and how many
> stories are nominated in a certain category?
>
> Not "other fiction", but rather AU, epic, WIP and that kind of thing?
>
> Or will that only be possible once voting season begins?
>
> At the moment it seems rather impossible to find the kind of story I'm
> actually interested in reading & reviewing.
>

Hi Juno,

As Rhapsody explained, you'll be able to sort by things like the category a
story's competing in once we finish categorizing stories. But until then,
the page you get by clicking "Browse Nominated Stories" does list the
categories that author has chosen that they would like to compete. It's the
third line of every nomination, in the form of

[FIRST CATEGORY CHOICE] : [SECOND CATEGORY CHOICE] : [THIRD CATEGORY CHOICE]

If the author chose Alternate Universe as the genre their story is in, it
will be listed as one of these categories. So if you did a text search of
the webpage you'd find it. I'm not talking about the formal search bar of
the web page, but rather the "find" function that most web browsers have
built in. In most cases you can get this by clicking CONTROL-F (or APPLE-F
in the case of Macs). Then you can type in some words and if those words
appear anywhere on the page it will take you to it. Do the same thing again
and it will take you to the next occurrence of that phrase. This will point
you to all the stories that have Alternate Universe either somewhere in the
summary or in that list of categories.

If you do this, I recommend displaying all of the nominations on one page.
To do this you'lll need to use the drop-down list right above the first
story in your list, with "Per Page: " to the left of it. Since there are
less than 500 stories currently nominated, choosing any number over 500 (or
choosing "all") will display all the stories. If you have a dial-up modem,
though, this may time out before it displays all the stories. If this
happens what I describe above will only find you the Alternate Universe
stories that are displayed on that page, and to find more you'll have to go
to the next page of stories and do the thing over again.

And you can do something similar to find longer stories. The second line of
each story summary is of the form

([STORY TYPE]: [STORY LENGTH]) Rating: [RATING]

So if you want a story with the story length "epic" you could search for
that like you did for "alternate universe". Actually, because the web page
displays the story length inside parentheses it might work better if you
searched for "epic)" so it would *just* pick up those uses of the phrase
that are from the story length. Similarly searching for "novel)" would give
you those stories that have novel chosen as the length.

For WIPs we do have a little more of a high-tech option. ;-) On the page you
get by clicking on "Browse Nominated Stories", you should either see a set
of three drop-down lists called "Story Type", "Author", and "Show Only
Stories I Have Reviewed", or you should see a link called "Show Filter". If
you see the "Show Filter" link click on it, and you'll see the three
drop-down lists I mentioned before. From the "Story Type" list select
"Incomplete" and then click the "Display Selected Nominations" button. That
would show you stories that are WIPs.

I hope all this information helps! And please excuse my longwinded answer to
your straightforward question.

Marta