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I've been searching the FAQ's for an answer to a question, and I'm not
finding it, so here I am.

In looking at the stories nominated for voting, I see in the Actions
column that there are several choices to click on, being Skip, Wait and
Enter New Review. Enter New Review is self-explanatory, but I am
wondering what Skip and Wait are for and when should I use them, if
ever? I am afraid to try them, for fear I will nix my option for
entering a review on a story. ;-)

Thanks for the help!

Margaret/Linaewen


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Ah, another newbie. You could ask your liaison about this (that's what I
ended up doing) but here are the explanations I was given:

*LIST:* You can put stories you're interested in reviewing in a Wish List by
clicking on the blue word WISH on the right side of the screen in each
story. Later you can find those stories again by going to the top of the
page and clicking on the SHOW FILTER link. Pull down the box that says
'Review Status' and select WISH and hit Display Selected Nominations. All
of the stories you've saved in your Wish List will come up.

*SKIP:* You use it to eliminate stories that you aren't interested in
reading from your list. For example, there are about 370 stories in the
database right now and about 56 of them are fixed-length ficlets. I know
because I did a search for those and that's how many popped up. I'm not
fond of drabbles and probably won't read many of those. I will read ones
that my friends wrote .... So, I went down that list and clicked skip on
all of the true drabbles and any other short story there (those are all less
than 500 words) that didn't appeal to me. I probably eliminated about 35
stories. Now, the next time I go in to look at the list of stories, those
stories won't show up on my list. I can go and look at those later by using
the filter, but I doubt I'll need to. When I have some free time - HA -
I'll go in and get rid of a bunch of other stories that I know I won't
read.

I hope this will help. I know it helped me tremendously. I have suggested
that MEFA.admin create a NEWBIE FAQ with an explanation of all the buttons
and such. It would make life easier for those of us who are first time
nominees.

Arthur/Fiondil
--
*Auta i lýmý! Utýlie'n aurý! ý* Battle Cry of the Noldor at the *Dagor
Nirnaeth Arnediad

Aurý entuluva! ý *Battle Cry of Hýrin at the *Dagor Nirnath Arnediad

Utýlie'n Estel ý *Hope hath come


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Hi Linaewen

Shamelessly borrowing from Rhapsody's excellent answer from last year:

Skip and Wish are nifty features to make reading lists for yourself. For
example, if you see a story that appeals to you, you can click on Wish,
and it will be added to your wish-list. Then, if you go to the Browse
Nominated Stories page and select "Wish" in the drop down for Review
Status on the filter, you can see all the stories you added to your
wish-list.

But if you see stories that don't appeal to you, you can click on skip
and the stories will "disappear" from the lists you see on the Browse
Nominated Stories page. You can still see those stories (and still
review them) by selecting "Skip" in the drop down for Review Status on
the filter.

HTH

Tanaqui

(Hmm, I definitely think we need a FAQs for reviewers....)

linaewen0 wrote:

>
>
> I've been searching the FAQ's for an answer to a question, and I'm
> not finding it, so here I am.
>
> In looking at the stories nominated for voting, I see in the Actions
> column that there are several choices to click on, being Skip, Wait
> and Enter New Review. Enter New Review is self-explanatory, but I am
> wondering what Skip and Wait are for and when should I use them, if
> ever? I am afraid to try them, for fear I will nix my option for
> entering a review on a story. ;-)
>
> Thanks for the help!
>
> Margaret/Linaewen