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Msg# 7686

Goof-up Regarding Author Reviews for Humor FLF Authors, Elves Poetr Posted by aure\_enteluva November 30, 2006 - 9:00:22 Topic ID# 7686
Hey guys,

I made a mistake back in the spring that unfortunately is going to
affect how some author reviews are counted. This affects Humor: FLF
Authors and Elves: Poetry Authors. Let me run through what happened
and how this will affect the awards.

THE WAY THINGS SHOULD WORK

When an author has a story assigned to a story main category, they
are also assigned to a sub-category for author reviews. If I have a
drabble in the humor category, then the author Marta will also be
entered into the "Genres: Humor: Fixed-Length Ficlets Authors" sub-
category. Any author reviews I get in that sub-category will be
counted against other authors of FLF's in the humor category.

Each main category has up to three author sub-categories in it. One
for authors of Fixed-length Ficlets, one for poetry, and one for
everyone else. In large categories where there are many sub-
categories, there are several story sub-categories that feed into
the same author sub-category. If there's more than one story subcat
for, say, fixed-length ficlets, the authors in any of those story
subcats will be placed in the same author subcat.

WHAT I DID

When the volunteers set up the story categories and sub-categories,
we have to mark which ones are for Fixed-Length Ficlets, which are
for Poetry, and which are for other stories. The site uses this
information to set up the author categories. Unfortunately, for two
story subcats I didn't mark them correctly. For both "Genres: Humor:
Fixed-Length Ficlets" and "Races: Elves: Poetry", I told the site
that these were subcategories for full-length stories (that is, not
poetry and not FLFs).

WHAT THIS MEANS

The website had no way to know that the authors in those subcats
wrote FLFs and poetry instead of full-length stories. So from the
website's perspective these authors should have been placed in the
author subcats for full-length pieces. And they were. That means
that when you put in an author review for one of these authors, it
was scored in "Genres: Humor: General Authors" or "Races: Elves:
General Authors".

WHAT WILL HAPPEN

This mistake was only discovered a few days ago. There's really no
time to fix the mistake before the end of the awards. The reviews
that you made for these authors will count, but instead of scoring
the reviews in a special subcat for FLF or Poetry Authors, they will
be scored along with the other authors of full-length pieces in
their subcat.

I'm very sorry for all of this. I apologize especially to the
authors who were affected by my mistake and will be competing
against authors of full-length stories. Best of luck to all of you.

Marta

Msg# 7701

Re: Goof-up Regarding Author Reviews for Humor FLF Authors, Elves P Posted by pipkinsweetgrass December 01, 2006 - 0:07:32 Topic ID# 7686
According to Myspace, the last time I tried to review it was still the
29th, but according to MEFA it was too late, and it was 11:00 pm EST.
HELP! I had one more review to post...


--- In MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com, "aure_enteluva" <melayton@...> wrote:
>
> Hey guys,
>
> I made a mistake back in the spring that unfortunately is going to
> affect how some author reviews are counted. This affects Humor: FLF
> Authors and Elves: Poetry Authors. Let me run through what happened
> and how this will affect the awards.
>
> THE WAY THINGS SHOULD WORK
>
> When an author has a story assigned to a story main category, they
> are also assigned to a sub-category for author reviews. If I have a
> drabble in the humor category, then the author Marta will also be
> entered into the "Genres: Humor: Fixed-Length Ficlets Authors" sub-
> category. Any author reviews I get in that sub-category will be
> counted against other authors of FLF's in the humor category.
>
> Each main category has up to three author sub-categories in it. One
> for authors of Fixed-length Ficlets, one for poetry, and one for
> everyone else. In large categories where there are many sub-
> categories, there are several story sub-categories that feed into
> the same author sub-category. If there's more than one story subcat
> for, say, fixed-length ficlets, the authors in any of those story
> subcats will be placed in the same author subcat.
>
> WHAT I DID
>
> When the volunteers set up the story categories and sub-categories,
> we have to mark which ones are for Fixed-Length Ficlets, which are
> for Poetry, and which are for other stories. The site uses this
> information to set up the author categories. Unfortunately, for two
> story subcats I didn't mark them correctly. For both "Genres: Humor:
> Fixed-Length Ficlets" and "Races: Elves: Poetry", I told the site
> that these were subcategories for full-length stories (that is, not
> poetry and not FLFs).
>
> WHAT THIS MEANS
>
> The website had no way to know that the authors in those subcats
> wrote FLFs and poetry instead of full-length stories. So from the
> website's perspective these authors should have been placed in the
> author subcats for full-length pieces. And they were. That means
> that when you put in an author review for one of these authors, it
> was scored in "Genres: Humor: General Authors" or "Races: Elves:
> General Authors".
>
> WHAT WILL HAPPEN
>
> This mistake was only discovered a few days ago. There's really no
> time to fix the mistake before the end of the awards. The reviews
> that you made for these authors will count, but instead of scoring
> the reviews in a special subcat for FLF or Poetry Authors, they will
> be scored along with the other authors of full-length pieces in
> their subcat.
>
> I'm very sorry for all of this. I apologize especially to the
> authors who were affected by my mistake and will be competing
> against authors of full-length stories. Best of luck to all of you.
>
> Marta
>

Msg# 7705

Re: Goof-up Regarding Author Reviews for Humor FLF Authors, Elves P Posted by Marta Layton December 01, 2006 - 9:12:34 Topic ID# 7686
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of pipkinsweetgrass
> Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 1:01 AM
> To: MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [MEFAwards] Re: Goof-up Regarding Author Reviews for
> Humor FLF Authors, Elves Poetry Authors
>
> According to Myspace, the last time I tried to review it was
> still the 29th, but according to MEFA it was too late, and it
> was 11:00 pm EST.
> HELP! I had one more review to post...
>

Hi pipkin,

I'm sorry you weren't able to enter that last review. Our day ends on GMT.
The "official" time for our site is in the bottom-left corner of the site.

Because of this, I can't allow you to enter your vote. We really have to
draw the line somewhere.

Thank you for all the votes you did enter, though! I'm sure the authors
appreciate them.

Marta