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I'm confused by something.
Trying to get a jump on voting season, I began with some hidden reviews of stories I nominated. When I hit preview the review, it said for all of them I've done so far: score: x character count: xyz and non-counted characters: abc (Substitute numbers for the letters.)
Now it's my understanding that the only characters which don't count are enclosed in quotes. I have not *used* quotes in any of these reviews, so they shouldn't *have* non-counted characters, should they? Or is there some other reason characters would not count, that I'm missing.
Puzzled,
Dreamflower
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Trying to get a jump on voting season, I began with some hidden reviews of stories I nominated. When I hit preview the review, it said for all of them I've done so far: score: x character count: xyz and non-counted characters: abc (Substitute numbers for the letters.)
Now it's my understanding that the only characters which don't count are enclosed in quotes. I have not *used* quotes in any of these reviews, so they shouldn't *have* non-counted characters, should they? Or is there some other reason characters would not count, that I'm missing.
Puzzled,
Dreamflower
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Hi Dreamflower,
<< Please enter your review. Only the characters
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789.,;"!?-() count toward the review's
score. Any quotes of the story must be enclosed in matching pairs of
square brackets. The preview will check to see that quotes are properly
enclosed. Dialog quotation marks like " may be used within the square
brackets to enclose dialog, as usual.>>
So every time you use a space or any character besides one of the ones
listed, those would be a non-counted character.
I also noticed that you need to enclose quotes in square brackets. Just
using quotes marks won't quite work.
For example, as a test I made the following vote:
<< I just love your story "Arwen and the Balrog". I think my favourite
part is where you have her say, ["You shall not eat Asfaloth for a
mid-morning snack! Be gone, you nasty bully!"]. That was really well
stated.>>
You'll notice that the title, "Arwen and the Balrog" is not in square
brackets. That's a title, not a quote, and so the site counts it towards
my vote total. The site gives the following as my totals for the above
review when I previewed it:
Score: 2 Counted Characters: 105 Non-Counted Characters: 106
So everything between [ and ] was not counted, and neither were any
spaces. If I'd used a character besides
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789.,;"!?-() , those wouldn't have
counted either.
Make sense?
Marta
> I'm confused by something.I just looked at the form and the instructions say:
>
> Trying to get a jump on voting season, I began with some hidden reviews
> of stories I nominated. When I hit preview the review, it said for all
> of them I've done so far: score: x character count: xyz and non-counted
> characters: abc (Substitute numbers for the letters.)
>
> Now it's my understanding that the only characters which don't count are
> enclosed in quotes. I have not *used* quotes in any of these reviews, so
> they shouldn't *have* non-counted characters, should they? Or is there
> some other reason characters would not count, that I'm missing.
>
<< Please enter your review. Only the characters
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789.,;"!?-() count toward the review's
score. Any quotes of the story must be enclosed in matching pairs of
square brackets. The preview will check to see that quotes are properly
enclosed. Dialog quotation marks like " may be used within the square
brackets to enclose dialog, as usual.>>
So every time you use a space or any character besides one of the ones
listed, those would be a non-counted character.
I also noticed that you need to enclose quotes in square brackets. Just
using quotes marks won't quite work.
For example, as a test I made the following vote:
<< I just love your story "Arwen and the Balrog". I think my favourite
part is where you have her say, ["You shall not eat Asfaloth for a
mid-morning snack! Be gone, you nasty bully!"]. That was really well
stated.>>
You'll notice that the title, "Arwen and the Balrog" is not in square
brackets. That's a title, not a quote, and so the site counts it towards
my vote total. The site gives the following as my totals for the above
review when I previewed it:
Score: 2 Counted Characters: 105 Non-Counted Characters: 106
So everything between [ and ] was not counted, and neither were any
spaces. If I'd used a character besides
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789.,;"!?-() , those wouldn't have
counted either.
Make sense?
Marta
Msg# 7153
Re: Character counts Posted by aelfwina@cableone.net June 17, 2006 - 22:17:26 Topic ID# 7150----- Original Message -----
From: "Marta Layton" <melayton@gmail.com>
To: <MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2006 4:26 PM
Subject: Re: [MEFAwards] Character counts
> Hi Dreamflower,
>
> I just looked at the form and the instructions say:
>
> << Please enter your review. Only the characters
> abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789.,;"!?-() count toward the review's
> score. Any quotes of the story must be enclosed in matching pairs of
> square brackets. The preview will check to see that quotes are properly
> enclosed. Dialog quotation marks like " may be used within the square
> brackets to enclose dialog, as usual.>>
>
> So every time you use a space or any character besides one of the ones
> listed, those would be a non-counted character.
Ahh! The light dawns! I am not used to thinking of spaces as "characters",
LOL!
>
> I also noticed that you need to enclose quotes in square brackets. Just
> using quotes marks won't quite work.
>
> For example, as a test I made the following vote:
>
> << I just love your story "Arwen and the Balrog". I think my favourite
> part is where you have her say, ["You shall not eat Asfaloth for a
> mid-morning snack! Be gone, you nasty bully!"]. That was really well
> stated.>>
>
> You'll notice that the title, "Arwen and the Balrog" is not in square
> brackets. That's a title, not a quote, and so the site counts it towards
> my vote total. The site gives the following as my totals for the above
> review when I previewed it:
>
> Score: 2 Counted Characters: 105 Non-Counted Characters: 106
>
> So everything between [ and ] was not counted, and neither were any
> spaces. If I'd used a character besides
> abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789.,;"!?-() , those wouldn't have
> counted either.
>
> Make sense?
It does *now*, thanks! And don't I feel like an idiot. *facepalm*.
Dreamflower
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> Marta
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<snippage>
might not understand it either. Thinking of spaces as a character is
really very much a programming distinction that I had trouble with, too,
when I was learning C++ back in school; I didnt' think of spaces that
way either.
Marta
>> Make sense?Don't worry about it. It's a good question to ask, because other people
>
> It does *now*, thanks! And don't I feel like an idiot. *facepalm*.
>
> Dreamflower
>
might not understand it either. Thinking of spaces as a character is
really very much a programming distinction that I had trouble with, too,
when I was learning C++ back in school; I didnt' think of spaces that
way either.
Marta
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