Yahoo Forum Archive

Pipkinsweetgrass is trying to nominate a group story. I had told her to use
my e-mail address for the group, since I coordinated the effort, but it seems
that won't work.

It was suggested that a group member who hadn't participated in the MEFAs in
the past serve as email contact, but I'm not sure we have anyone who fits that.

What do we do?

Can it somehow be rigged to use my email address, or does that throw
everything off?

I promise not to vote under the group name, if that helps... heh. It's going
to be a challenge just to find the time to vote under *my* membership name.

Thanks,
Lin


[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

BLJean@aol.com wrote:

>
>
> Pipkinsweetgrass is trying to nominate a group story. I had told her to use
> my e-mail address for the group, since I coordinated the effort, but it
> seems
> that won't work.
>
> It was suggested that a group member who hadn't participated in the
> MEFAs in
> the past serve as email contact, but I'm not sure we have anyone who
> fits that.
>
> What do we do?
>
> Can it somehow be rigged to use my email address, or does that throw
> everything off?
>
> I promise not to vote under the group name, if that helps... heh. It's
> going
> to be a challenge just to find the time to vote under *my* membership name.
>
> Thanks,
> Lin
>

Hi Lin,

We have pretty strict rules that each person can only have one account.
That's why the website only lets each email address be given to one member.

I forget, how many people are in the group? It sounds like we may need
to create an author group. An author group is where you see "CoAuthors"
in the authors' name; you can create one between two authors I know by
clicking the link on the nomination form under the link to create an
author. But I'm not sure if there's any limit to how many members can be
joined in one author account like that. That would really be the best
way to handle it if it's a possibility.

What are the authors' names and their emails? If you can get me that
information (and assuming Anthony says we can join that many authors in
an account), I'll set up the group and then Pipkin can nominate it.

Let me know,
Marta

On Jun 13, 2006, at 8:44 PM, Marta Layton wrote:

> BLJean@aol.com wrote:
>> Pipkinsweetgrass is trying to nominate a group story. I had told her
>> to use
>> my e-mail address for the group, since I coordinated the effort, but
>> it
>> seems
>> that won't work.
> Hi Lin,
>
> We have pretty strict rules that each person can only have one account.
> That's why the website only lets each email address be given to one
> member.

Lin,

Marta's right here.

The way CoAuthor Groups work is that you add the new authors
individually, with their email addresses, then when they're all in the
system, you link them together as a CoAuthor Group.

There are links to the 'New Author' and 'New Group' forms on the Story
Nomination form, just under the author selection list.

The reason it's done that way is so that the system can know who the
actual authors are, and list the stories for them, as well as to know
that those authors are not allowed to vote for the story that they're
an author of.

The actual 'person' that is a CoAuthor group doesn't even have an email
address associated with it, because it just uses the info from the
individual authors.

I've been told that for some reason, after you create a new author or
group, you need to reload the New Story form and select your author.
Using the form that it sends you to seems to cause errors. I won't try
to fix this now, as it might cause problems, and this close to the end
of nominating season, it's not worth the risk.

Anthony