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...of stories we've not yet reviewed such as we received on the website last
year----

There were certain stories I chose not to read, usually because they were slash,
that I put on my "Skip" list. As I wrote more and more reviews last year,
apparently because there were so few stories eventually I hadn't read, certain
of those I'd wished to skip began to appear more and more often as the new
suggestion. My question is: if we use that random suggestion again this year,
which for the most part I enjoyed last year until there at the end of
reading/reviewing season, can that subroutine be tweaked to recognize the
"skips" so as to not push stories that are seen as less than palatable on us?
There were a couple I'd tried giving a look at out of a desire to be fair, only
to find that, for me, they were totally objectionable; and having their titles
repeatedly being put before me as I finished up reviews or came onto the website
became very annoying.

Just another little problem, perhaps, to set our site techs! Please don't kill
me now--I've just begun to review!
Bonnie L. Sherrell
Teacher at Large

"Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends." LOTR

"Don't go where I can't follow."

Hi Larner,

I think the "skip" feature will be used again this year. I'm almost
certain of it in fact. Of course there's no requirement that you
actually read (let alone review) the randomly-selected stories; this
is intended to give people a "foothold" who find the complete list of
nominations too overwhelming, because it is in many ways easier to
decide to review (or not to review) a single story rather than a whole
group of them.

I will pass this suggestion along to Tanaqui, but as the awards have
started I don't know if it's possible to make the change. We are also
collecting suggestions and possible improvements for next year, via a
LJ post. All comments will be screened, and these suggestions will be
what we discuss in our PM after the awards, to see what is possible
and what is a good change. If you don't mind, would you make a note of
your suggestion there?

http://community.livejournal.com/mefas/115678.html

Thanks,

Marta

On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Bonnie L. Sherrell
<blslarner@olypen.com> wrote:

>
>
> ...of stories we've not yet reviewed such as we received on the website last
> year----
>
> There were certain stories I chose not to read, usually because they were
> slash,
> that I put on my "Skip" list. As I wrote more and more reviews last year,
> apparently because there were so few stories eventually I hadn't read,
> certain
> of those I'd wished to skip began to appear more and more often as the new
> suggestion. My question is: if we use that random suggestion again this
> year,
> which for the most part I enjoyed last year until there at the end of
> reading/reviewing season, can that subroutine be tweaked to recognize the
> "skips" so as to not push stories that are seen as less than palatable on
> us?
> There were a couple I'd tried giving a look at out of a desire to be fair,
> only
> to find that, for me, they were totally objectionable; and having their
> titles
> repeatedly being put before me as I finished up reviews or came onto the
> website
> became very annoying.
>
> Just another little problem, perhaps, to set our site techs! Please don't
> kill
> me now--I've just begun to review!
> Bonnie L. Sherrell
> Teacher at Large
>
> "Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very
> wise cannot see all ends." LOTR
>
> "Don't go where I can't follow."
>