Yahoo Forum Archive

Hey guys,

Nominations will open in a few hours at June 1, 12:00:01 AM (GMT).
Nominations will stay open until July 15, 11:59:59 PM (GMT). For
reference, at the time I write this it's May 31, 8:02:58 PM (GMT).

Every member of the MEFAwards Yahoo group can nominate twenty pieces,
either by themselves or someone else. You can nominate a story by
going to http://www.mefawards.net/ and clicking on "MEFA 2007". If
you're not a member and want to nominate please join this group so we
can give you nominating privileges.

Your password for this site might be different from your Yahoo/LJ
password. It's the same as your password in 2006. If you're not sure
what your log-in information is, you can get it emailed to you at
http://mefawards.net/mefa2007/index.php?page=sendPassword, or you can
email the admins at mefasupport@gmail.com.

When you nominate a story you'll need a few things:

--- the title of a story
--- the author of the story
--- the author's email address
--- the URL (including "http://") where the story can be read.

When choosing your URL, make sure:

1. that the URL is actually correct. If you mistype it, THE
NOMINATION WILL BE WITHDRAWN and you won't be allowed to replace it.
2. that readers don't have to log in to read the story. Ditto about
the nomination being withdrawn for this.
3. if the story has more than one part on different pages, that
there's an easy way to get to the later pages. Most stories do this by
having previous/next links on each page, or by having an index page
with a link to each part. Again, if there's no way to get to the
subsequent parts, your story gets withdrawn.

Before you nominate, make sure it wasn't nominated before. Each story
can compete once as a WIP and once as a finished piece. You can find a
list of stories nominated in previous years at

http://www.mefawards.net/mefa2007/index.php?page=FAQprevnomd

Oh, a final note to anyone who helped test the site: if you nominated
a story to help test the site and want it to be nominated "for real",
you'll need to nominate it after June 1. Thanks for all of your help
with that, guys.

*******

There is one additional thing I want to emphasize. This is for the
people who are authors and have their stories nominated. When you're
nominated, and you fill out the form providing information about your
story, be careful about what you select as your first, second, and
third category choices. Your story can be placed in any of these main
categories. We'll do our best to put it in your first choice and (if
that's not possible) in your second choice, so PLEASE be careful with
what you select as your first, your second, and your third choice.
After stories are sorted into categories and subcategories it's very
difficult to move them around. In previous years I've tried to do this
where possible; this year, we'll only move stories if the volunteers
make a mistake and place your story in a category or subcategory you
didn't select.

On a similar note, be careful what you select as answers under the
sub-category section. Whatever you select as settings, characters for
categorization, event or time period, or sub-genre, your story can be
placed in a subcategory for those things. Don't mark that your story
is set in Rohan if you don't want it competing against other stories
set in the same place. (If you'd like to select a character, etc., but
don't see it listed, ask your liaison to add it for you.)

The one exception is the longer characters list (*not* characters for
categorization; I'm talking about the one where you can choose up to
seven characters). This longer list is for the benefit of readers.
Only the shorter "characters for categorization" list will be used to
set up categories.

I think that's about it! Happy nominating, and best of luck. :^)

Marta

I've got a list of nominations, and I've checked the URLs on them, but I
have one author for whom I cannot find a complete email addy. She's already
a member at MEFA, but when I tapped into the member list, it does not show
the entire email address. Can you use the partial address I have?

Dreamflower
(Barbara)

On 5/31/07, aure_enteluva <melayton@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hey guys,
>
> Nominations will open in a few hours at June 1, 12:00:01 AM (GMT).
> Nominations will stay open until July 15, 11:59:59 PM (GMT). For
> reference, at the time I write this it's May 31, 8:02:58 PM (GMT).
>
> Every member of the MEFAwards Yahoo group can nominate twenty pieces,
> either by themselves or someone else. You can nominate a story by
> going to http://www.mefawards.net/ and clicking on "MEFA 2007". If
> you're not a member and want to nominate please join this group so we
> can give you nominating privileges.
>
> Your password for this site might be different from your Yahoo/LJ
> password. It's the same as your password in 2006. If you're not sure
> what your log-in information is, you can get it emailed to you at
> http://mefawards.net/mefa2007/index.php?page=sendPassword, or you can
> email the admins at mefasupport@gmail.com <mefasupport%40gmail.com>.
>
> When you nominate a story you'll need a few things:
>
> --- the title of a story
> --- the author of the story
> --- the author's email address
> --- the URL (including "http://") where the story can be read.
>
> When choosing your URL, make sure:
>
> 1. that the URL is actually correct. If you mistype it, THE
> NOMINATION WILL BE WITHDRAWN and you won't be allowed to replace it.
> 2. that readers don't have to log in to read the story. Ditto about
> the nomination being withdrawn for this.
> 3. if the story has more than one part on different pages, that
> there's an easy way to get to the later pages. Most stories do this by
> having previous/next links on each page, or by having an index page
> with a link to each part. Again, if there's no way to get to the
> subsequent parts, your story gets withdrawn.
>
> Before you nominate, make sure it wasn't nominated before. Each story
> can compete once as a WIP and once as a finished piece. You can find a
> list of stories nominated in previous years at
>
> http://www.mefawards.net/mefa2007/index.php?page=FAQprevnomd
>
> Oh, a final note to anyone who helped test the site: if you nominated
> a story to help test the site and want it to be nominated "for real",
> you'll need to nominate it after June 1. Thanks for all of your help
> with that, guys.
>
> *******
>
> There is one additional thing I want to emphasize. This is for the
> people who are authors and have their stories nominated. When you're
> nominated, and you fill out the form providing information about your
> story, be careful about what you select as your first, second, and
> third category choices. Your story can be placed in any of these main
> categories. We'll do our best to put it in your first choice and (if
> that's not possible) in your second choice, so PLEASE be careful with
> what you select as your first, your second, and your third choice.
> After stories are sorted into categories and subcategories it's very
> difficult to move them around. In previous years I've tried to do this
> where possible; this year, we'll only move stories if the volunteers
> make a mistake and place your story in a category or subcategory you
> didn't select.
>
> On a similar note, be careful what you select as answers under the
> sub-category section. Whatever you select as settings, characters for
> categorization, event or time period, or sub-genre, your story can be
> placed in a subcategory for those things. Don't mark that your story
> is set in Rohan if you don't want it competing against other stories
> set in the same place. (If you'd like to select a character, etc., but
> don't see it listed, ask your liaison to add it for you.)
>
> The one exception is the longer characters list (*not* characters for
> categorization; I'm talking about the one where you can choose up to
> seven characters). This longer list is for the benefit of readers.
> Only the shorter "characters for categorization" list will be used to
> set up categories.
>
> I think that's about it! Happy nominating, and best of luck. :^)
>
> Marta
>
>
>


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

Hey guys,

Just want to clear up a few things. I messed up a few URLs.

> Every member of the MEFAwards Yahoo group can nominate twenty
> pieces, either by themselves or someone else. You can
> nominate a story by going to http://www.mefawards.net/
> <http://www.mefawards.net/> and clicking on "MEFA 2007".

You will see "MEFA 2007" when nominations open up in about 45 minutes. If
you go there right now you won't see the "MEFA 2007", but it should be there
as soon as nominations open.

I also made a mistake in these URLs. Anywhere you see mefa2007, beginning at
midnight GMT tonight, you'll need to type MEFA2007 instead for them to work.
So

> Your password for this site might be different from your
> Yahoo/LJ password. It's the same as your password in 2006. If
> you're not sure what your log-in information is, you can get
> it emailed to you at
> http://mefawards.net/mefa2007/index.php?page=sendPassword,
> <http://mefawards.net/mefa2007/index.php?page=sendPassword,>

That should be http://mefawards.net/MEFA2007/index.php?page=sendPassword

and

> Before you nominate, make sure it wasn't nominated before.
> Each story can compete once as a WIP and once as a finished
> piece. You can find a list of stories nominated in previous years at
>
> http://www.mefawards.net/mefa2007/index.php?page=FAQprevnomd

That should be http://www.mefawards.net/MEFA2007/index.php?page=FAQprevnomd

I'm sorry for any confusion. If you have a hard time finding somehting, just
post here and we'll straighten it out together.

Marta

Hi Barbara,

If they're already in the "system", then you can nominate them without their
email address. That means if someone nominates another story by them, or if
they're a member of this Yahoo group, then we already have their email
address. You only need to provide it if they're not already a member.

What's the author? I'll check whether you'll need her email address or not.

Marta

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Barbara Rich
> Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 5:16 PM
> To: MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [MEFAwards] Nominations to Open in a Few Hours
>
> I've got a list of nominations, and I've checked the URLs on
> them, but I have one author for whom I cannot find a complete
> email addy. She's already a member at MEFA, but when I tapped
> into the member list, it does not show the entire email
> address. Can you use the partial address I have?
>
> Dreamflower
> (Barbara)
>

On 5/31/07, Marta <melayton@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Hi Barbara,
>
> If they're already in the "system", then you can nominate them without
> their
> email address. That means if someone nominates another story by them, or
> if
> they're a member of this Yahoo group, then we already have their email
> address. You only need to provide it if they're not already a member.
>
> What's the author? I'll check whether you'll need her email address or
> not.
>

Baggins Babe
DF



Marta

>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com <MEFAwards%40yahoogroups.com>
> > [mailto:MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com <MEFAwards%40yahoogroups.com>] On
> Behalf Of Barbara Rich
> > Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 5:16 PM
> > To: MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com <MEFAwards%40yahoogroups.com>
> > Subject: Re: [MEFAwards] Nominations to Open in a Few Hours
> >
> > I've got a list of nominations, and I've checked the URLs on
> > them, but I have one author for whom I cannot find a complete
> > email addy. She's already a member at MEFA, but when I tapped
> > into the member list, it does not show the entire email
> > address. Can you use the partial address I have?
> >
> > Dreamflower
> > (Barbara)
> >
>
>
>

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

Hi Barbara,

> Baggins Babe

Okay, I checked. She had some stories nominated back in 2005. Since a lot of
the author emails we had were so old, I decided to get new email addresses
for every author nominated this year who wasn't also a MEFAwards member.

I could give you her email address from 2005, but I'd prefer it if there's
any way you could get an up-to-date email address for her. In the past when
I've needed an author's email, I've left comments at one of their more
recent stories saying I'd like to nominate them for an award but need their
email address to do so, so could they please email me at [my email address].

If that doesn't work and you want to go ahead and nominate her with the old
address let me know and I'll email it for you. I should warn you, though,
that if we never hear back from her you'll lose the nomination.

> DF
>

I'm sorry... Is this another author you want me to look into? I don't
recognize her.

Marta

Barbara, I have an email for Baggins Babe from a story review I got
from her recently. I'll send it to you privately.



GamgeeFest :)

--- In MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com, "Marta" <melayton@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Barbara,
>
> > Baggins Babe
>
> Okay, I checked. She had some stories nominated back in 2005. Since
a lot of
> the author emails we had were so old, I decided to get new email
addresses
> for every author nominated this year who wasn't also a MEFAwards
member.
>
> I could give you her email address from 2005, but I'd prefer it if
there's
> any way you could get an up-to-date email address for her. In the
past when
> I've needed an author's email, I've left comments at one of their
more
> recent stories saying I'd like to nominate them for an award but
need their
> email address to do so, so could they please email me at [my email
address].
>
> If that doesn't work and you want to go ahead and nominate her with
the old
> address let me know and I'll email it for you. I should warn you,
though,
> that if we never hear back from her you'll lose the nomination.
>
> > DF
> >
>
> I'm sorry... Is this another author you want me to look into? I
don't
> recognize her.
>
> Marta
>