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Msg# 8702

Author Names Posted by melayton@gmail.com May 03, 2008 - 21:27:16 Topic ID# 8702
Hey guys,

I've been discussing an issue with a member, and it's worth mentioning
the issue to the whole group.

This member was trying to nominate a story by an author who already had
an account at the website, but the author was listed under their Yahoo
ID rather than the name they used at the website where the story was
posted. This meant that when the nominator tried to add the author so
she could nominate the story, the website gave an error. As it should,
because we don't want the same person to have more than one account.

If you are trying to add an author so you can nominate them, there's a
good chance that they are already listed but under a different name. To
check, click on the "Users" link at the top of the page and search for
the part of their email address before the "@" sign. For instance, my
personal email address (which is what I gave as my contact email) is
melayton-at-gmail-dot-com. Searching for "melayton" would bring up me.

If searching for an email address brings up an account, go ahead and
make your nomination with that person as the author. But email the
support address:

mefasupport-at-mefawards-dot-net

And we will change how the author's name is displayed on the site so
it's more clear to other participants who it is.

Btw, if you have trouble adding an author but searching for them like I
described above doesn't turn them up, please contact me at the same
email address. I'll try to track down what's going on and fix it.

Also btw, in this case, the author was Foxrafer, who at our website had
the name "csevans8" (her Yahoo ID). I changed the name to "foxrafer
(csevans8)".

Marta