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I just accidentally saved a review as "draft" (writing author reviews) and
when I went to edit it, because I'd *meant* to save it as a "hidden" review, it
came up blank.

Beg pardon if someone's already talked about this. I haven't been "around"
much the past month. Fighting the bronchitis battle early this year.

Exactly when is voting season over? (Something in me says it's today, which
is why I'm concentrating on author reviews rather than particular stories.
Please let me know if I'm mistaken.)

Thanks,
Lin


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If you went back before hitting "save review" but after hitting "preview" it will do that. I've had that happen several times.

And the voting's not over for another 10 days (ends the 20th).

Dreamflower

----- Original Message -----
From: BLJean@aol.com
To: mefawards@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 7:17 PM
Subject: [MEFAwards] Something odd...


I just accidentally saved a review as "draft" (writing author reviews) and
when I went to edit it, because I'd *meant* to save it as a "hidden" review, it
came up blank.

Beg pardon if someone's already talked about this. I haven't been "around"
much the past month. Fighting the bronchitis battle early this year.

Exactly when is voting season over? (Something in me says it's today, which
is why I'm concentrating on author reviews rather than particular stories.
Please let me know if I'm mistaken.)

Thanks,
Lin

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Oh, I'm so glad there's another 10 days of reviewing. (crossing
fingers that bronchitis is not relapsing. feel like [something]
warmed over tonight.)

Not sure if I went back before hitting "save review"... the second
one that it happened with, I was pretty sure I'd saved it. After I
finished for today I went back over the list of reviews I'd written,
and saw that one said "Edit draft review" or whatever that prompt is,
and I was surprised, for I'd saved everything else (after the first
spot of trouble) as "hidden" and then gone back later and started
finalising them all, one at a time.

But when I hit the "Edit draft review" it came up blank. And I was
all out of fancy, high-falutin' words by then. Re-created the review
to the best of my ability, meaning to save it as "hidden" and get
back to it later, if today wasn't the last voting day, but somehow
accidentally saved it as "final".

*sigh*
But at least I wrote a bunch of author reviews when I had the time
and energy. I still have a bunch of stories on my "wish" list that I
want to review.

--- In MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com, <aelfwina@...> wrote:
>
> If you went back before hitting "save review" but after
hitting "preview" it will do that. I've had that happen several
times.
>
> And the voting's not over for another 10 days (ends the 20th).
>
> Dreamflower
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: BLJean@...
> To: mefawards@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 7:17 PM
> Subject: [MEFAwards] Something odd...
>
>
> I just accidentally saved a review as "draft" (writing author
reviews) and
> when I went to edit it, because I'd *meant* to save it as
a "hidden" review, it
> came up blank.
>
> Beg pardon if someone's already talked about this. I haven't
been "around"
> much the past month. Fighting the bronchitis battle early this
year.
>
> Exactly when is voting season over? (Something in me says it's
today, which
> is why I'm concentrating on author reviews rather than particular
stories.
> Please let me know if I'm mistaken.)
>
> Thanks,
> Lin
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>
>
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>

Hi Lin,

I am slowly working my way through a backlog of emails. I've been busy plus
feeling generally down this last week. But I am getting through it all, so
hopefully will answer the handful of MEFA emails before the night is out.

> I just accidentally saved a review as "draft" (writing author
> reviews) and when I went to edit it, because I'd *meant* to
> save it as a "hidden" review, it came up blank.
>

Did you actually save it, or did you just preview it? When you enter a
review, you select draft/hidden/final, type it in and click the "preview
this review" button. Then the page reloads, and you see what you typed.
Assuming you closed all the quote-brackets, you will see a grey box saying
"Review Status", showing which status you gave the review
(draft/hidden/final) and under that a "Save Validated Review" button. It's
only when you click "Save Validated Review" that the button is actually
saved.

That said... I have mostly been using "Final" reviews but have not run into
any problems. If you did go all the way through and clicked "Save Validated
Review", what author and in what category were you voting? I'll look into it
for you.

> Beg pardon if someone's already talked about this. I haven't
> been "around"
> much the past month. Fighting the bronchitis battle early this year.
>

Hope you're feeling better!

> Exactly when is voting season over? (Something in me says
> it's today, which is why I'm concentrating on author reviews
> rather than particular stories.
> Please let me know if I'm mistaken.)
>

No, not today. Voting ends at 11:59:59 PM on November 20. That's GMT, which
is the official "Page Served AT" timestamp at the bottom of each page -- the
current "official time" is 2006-11-12 00:17:08 GMT, so you have about
another eight days (minus twenty or so minutes) to vote.

Marta

Hi Lindelea,

Okay, I apparently replied too soon - I hadn't seen this email when I last
replied. Sorry about that.

> Not sure if I went back before hitting "save review"... the
> second one that it happened with, I was pretty sure I'd saved
> it. After I finished for today I went back over the list of
> reviews I'd written, and saw that one said "Edit draft
> review" or whatever that prompt is, and I was surprised, for
> I'd saved everything else (after the first spot of trouble)
> as "hidden" and then gone back later and started finalising
> them all, one at a time.
>

If you saw "Edit draft review" it sounds like something got saved.

I am sorry your reviews seemed to get lost. I managed to edit one of my own
draft reviews just now, so I really don't know what the problem is. If you
have this problem again or if you still have any of the draft reviews that
were giving you problems, let me know and I'll look into it.

> But when I hit the "Edit draft review" it came up blank. And
> I was all out of fancy, high-falutin' words by then.
> Re-created the review to the best of my ability, meaning to
> save it as "hidden" and get back to it later, if today wasn't
> the last voting day, but somehow accidentally saved it as "final".
>
> *sigh*

{{{hugs}}} I'm sorry the site was giving you a hard time especially when you
weren't feeling well.

> But at least I wrote a bunch of author reviews when I had the
> time and energy. I still have a bunch of stories on my "wish"
> list that I want to review.
>

Good for you! I know the authors will appreciate the thought and energy.
Just don't knock yourself out. Your health is important, too... ;-)

Marta