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Bows low to our esteemed programmer, after filling in various forms and
seeing the results appear like magic on a website. Nomination season is over, and
what an amazing and flexible website we had to work with--forms that accepted
additional information without blinking (in a manner of speaking), a clear,
step-by-step process, and the ability to go back and correct, and re-correct, and
re-re-correct tired author mistakes.

Many, many thanks.

Lin


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Yes, all hail Webmaster Anthony...the site is amazing!

Kathy (Inkling)

--- In MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com, BLJean@... wrote:
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> Bows low to our esteemed programmer, after filling in various forms
and
> seeing the results appear like magic on a website. Nomination
season is over, and
> what an amazing and flexible website we had to work with--forms
that accepted
> additional information without blinking (in a manner of speaking),
a clear,
> step-by-step process, and the ability to go back and correct, and
re-correct, and
> re-re-correct tired author mistakes.
>
> Many, many thanks.
>
> Lin
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ALL HAIL ANTHONY!!!

*standing ovation*

~ Mechtild

On 6/16/06, Kathy <inkling-tcbs@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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> Yes, all hail Webmaster Anthony...the site is amazing!
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> Kathy (Inkling)
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> --- In MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com, BLJean@... wrote:
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> > seeing the results appear like magic on a website. Nomination
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> a clear,
> > step-by-step process, and the ability to go back and correct, and
> re-correct, and
> > re-re-correct tired author mistakes.
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> > Many, many thanks.
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> > Lin
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It seems really strange getting kudos right after a big goof up! I do
appreciate them.

I'm glad we got through nomination season without too many big mistakes.

Last night, Marta mentioned that authors couldn't edit their stories,
because nomination season was over. That's the way I had written it,
but it didn't take too much work to change it. I got it all done, but
then noticed that I had allowed authors to edit withdrawn stories,
which isn't very useful. In adding 'withdrawn', I introduced an error,
but was a bit overconfident, and didn't test, as I had just confirmed
that it worked, and it was a very small change. Shortly after, I went
to bed, and I rarely get a chance to check on things (and can't work on
it at all) during the workday.

It was an easy fix (added the word 'get' where it needed to be!), so
once I started reading my emails, I fixed it right away.

Later,
Anthony

On Jun 16, 2006, at 4:15 PM, Mechtild wrote:
> ALL HAIL ANTHONY!!!
> *standing ovation*
> ~ Mechtild
> On 6/16/06, Kathy <inkling-tcbs@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> Yes, all hail Webmaster Anthony...the site is amazing!
>> Kathy (Inkling)
>> --- In MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com, BLJean@... wrote:
>>> Bows low to our esteemed programmer, after filling in various forms
>>> and seeing the results appear like magic on a website. Nomination
>>> season is over, and what an amazing and flexible website we had to
>>> work with--forms that accepted additional information without
>>> blinking (in a manner of speaking), a clear, step-by-step process,
>>> and the ability to go back and correct, and re-correct, and
>>> re-re-correct tired author mistakes.
>>>
>>> Many, many thanks.
>>> Lin

Can't edit stories? Does that mean we can't add new chapters, either? I
have a public to think of!!!! (*winky face* - it's not much of a public)

~ Mechtild

On 6/16/06, Anthony Holder <aaholder@swbell.net> wrote:
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> It seems really strange getting kudos right after a big goof up! I do
> appreciate them.
>
> I'm glad we got through nomination season without too many big mistakes.
>
> Last night, Marta mentioned that authors couldn't edit their stories,
> because nomination season was over. That's the way I had written it,
> but it didn't take too much work to change it. I got it all done, but
> then noticed that I had allowed authors to edit withdrawn stories,
> which isn't very useful. In adding 'withdrawn', I introduced an error,
> but was a bit overconfident, and didn't test, as I had just confirmed
> that it worked, and it was a very small change. Shortly after, I went
> to bed, and I rarely get a chance to check on things (and can't work on
> it at all) during the workday.
>
> It was an easy fix (added the word 'get' where it needed to be!), so
> once I started reading my emails, I fixed it right away.
>
> Later,
> Anthony
>
> On Jun 16, 2006, at 4:15 PM, Mechtild wrote:
> > ALL HAIL ANTHONY!!!
> > *standing ovation*
> > ~ Mechtild
> > On 6/16/06, Kathy <inkling-tcbs@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> >> Yes, all hail Webmaster Anthony...the site is amazing!
> >> Kathy (Inkling)
> >> --- In MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com, BLJean@... wrote:
> >>> Bows low to our esteemed programmer, after filling in various forms
> >>> and seeing the results appear like magic on a website. Nomination
> >>> season is over, and what an amazing and flexible website we had to
> >>> work with--forms that accepted additional information without
> >>> blinking (in a manner of speaking), a clear, step-by-step process,
> >>> and the ability to go back and correct, and re-correct, and
> >>> re-re-correct tired author mistakes.
> >>>
> >>> Many, many thanks.
> >>> Lin
>
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> Yahoo! Groups Links
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I wanted to thank both Anthony and Marta for the work they've done in
shepherding us through Nomination Season - which, given unforeseen
glitches, confused participants, and the last-minute frenzy to nominate
what looked like 100 new works, seems particularly admirable!

Since we can't give them Narya and Nenya, kudos will have to do.

And thanks also to the Author Liaisons - I'd be lost without mine!




RAKSHA THE Indecisive DEMON, almost finished finalizing her story forms

raksha022002 wrote:

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> I wanted to thank both Anthony and Marta for the work they've done in
> shepherding us through Nomination Season - which, given unforeseen
> glitches, confused participants, and the last-minute frenzy to nominate
> what looked like 100 new works, seems particularly admirable!
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> Since we can't give them Narya and Nenya, kudos will have to do.
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> And thanks also to the Author Liaisons - I'd be lost without mine!
>

Hi Raksha,

Thank you so much for the "thanks". It's been a wild ride - a little
stressful at times, but by no means did that outweigh the pleasure I got
out of these things. I'm happy to help get people settled into the
awards, and look forward to seeing all those nice reviews pour in.

Marta

Mechtild wrote:

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> Can't edit stories? Does that mean we can't add new chapters, either? I
> have a public to think of!!!! (*winky face* - it's not much of a public)
>
> ~ Mechtild
>

This is a common misunderstanding that a lot of people seem to have.
When Anthony or other MEFA admins have referred to not being able to
edit stories we mean the forms that authors complete *about* their
stories at our website, http://www.mefawards.net/MEFA2006/ . Wherever
your story is hosted (SOA, a LJ, HASA, etc.) you can still edit the
actual story. Because of a technical problem with our site authors
couldn't edit their story *form* at our site.

This is probably a good time to make another point clear. Several other
people have come to me asking if their WIPs need to be finished by June
22 to compete in these awards. The June 22 deadline refers to when
authors need to give us permission for their stories to compete and fill
out the form at our site giving us the information we need to categorize
it. We don't look at whether you edit your story on another site after
this.

The terminology can be confusing. When I refer to a nomination being
complete I'm saying that the story is already to be sifted into
categories -- that it's ready to go as far as our competition is
concerned. The story itself can still be a WIP in that the author wants
to add chapters, or the author might find a typo in August and decide to
fix it. We don't monitor when a story is last edited, with one
exception: WIPs have to have been edited within the twelve-month period
before they are nominated. Authors can edit stories at any point they
want to in the awards. Stories that you choose a "story type" for
besides "Incomplete" (like Poetry, Fixed-Length Ficlet, Non-Fiction or
Other Fiction) should be basically finished, and you shouldn't still be
adding new chapters - but fixing the occasional comma wouldn't be a
problem even for those stories.

Marta

--- In MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com, Anthony Holder <aaholder@...> wrote:

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> It seems really strange getting kudos right after a big goof up! I
> do appreciate them.
>
> I'm glad we got through nomination season without too many big
> mistakes.

But maybe that's exactly when you *should* get them...point being
that, goof ups or not, you've still done an amazing job!

Kathy (Inkling)

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> On Jun 16, 2006, at 4:15 PM, Mechtild wrote:
> > ALL HAIL ANTHONY!!!
> > *standing ovation*
> > ~ Mechtild
> > On 6/16/06, Kathy <inkling-tcbs@...> wrote:
> >> Yes, all hail Webmaster Anthony...the site is amazing!
> >> Kathy (Inkling)
> >> --- In MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com, BLJean@ wrote:
> >>> Bows low to our esteemed programmer, after filling in various

forms

> >>> and seeing the results appear like magic on a website.

Nomination

> >>> season is over, and what an amazing and flexible website we had

to

> >>> work with--forms that accepted additional information without
> >>> blinking (in a manner of speaking), a clear, step-by-step

process,

> >>> and the ability to go back and correct, and re-correct, and
> >>> re-re-correct tired author mistakes.
> >>>
> >>> Many, many thanks.
> >>> Lin
>