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FergusHarrison
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I’m a newbie and posted my first piece last month. It got off to a good start with some quick reviews that were pretty positive. Now everything seems to have ground to a halt. I’ve had no reviews in 13 days and counting, despite credits being attached. Frequent checking has confirmed that there appears to have been a reviewer assigned for almost all of that period so the implication is that three reviewers so far have sat on their assignments and let them drop of the four day cliff. Is this normal (some sort of blocking tactic?) or is there a glitch in the system? I tried using the contact me facility on the site but have had no response.
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kazmojazz
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This does seem to happen sometimes. Apparently, it's best to only add one credit to your story at a time. Seems to help - no idea why.
Very frustrating, I know, especially when you first join. After a while, you get used to periods without reviews. Best to get on with some writing while you wait.
Do hope you get some reviews soon.
Beth
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awrigley
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No, it's not a glitch, and no, no one is blocking you. A member for 3 weeks with 3 assignment reviews in the bag and you are complaining? I do however note that you have a dense opening paragraph, that has a confusing first sentence in that its tense conflicts with the next sentence: Quote: fergieIt was a love-hate relationship of the purest kind. There was a time when it was just love but now that love is tempered with an edge of bitterness and it breaks my heart. I can still shiver with joy as I savour her beauty, caress her smooth sensuous curves and witness her delightful responsiveness to the gentle stroke of my fingertips. Her beauty is what brought us together but it became so much more than that. Things began so full of hope and promise. Those early days were wonderful; me desperate to know everything about her, when I couldn’t get enough of her and she would thrill me with each new discovery. And she would make me feel so good. She seemed to know intuitively what I wanted and then she would provide, uncomplainingly and without complication. We seemed so in tune with each other. I don’t really remember the point at which it all started to go wrong. It’s just that whilst once our precious time together seemed too short, too fleeting; those minutes, those hours, in her thrall flying by almost timelessly, now I would find myself silently urging her to finish, anxious for it to be over, to be done. It is, ultimately, just an extended pun. But the bit knocks me as a reader is the "It was a love-hate" ... "There was a time..." ... " but now that love is tempered..." First two sentences and a tense change. No. That is the sort of thing that will put off a lot of reviewers, rather than pulling them in to spontaneously read and review as soon as they get the assignment. Maybe people are telling you something?
This post was last edited by awrigley, 06 Dec 2011, 22:19
Memory... What was that?
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FergusHarrison
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"A member for 3 weeks with 3 assignment reviews in the bag and you are complaining?"
I guess I assumed when someone clicks to accept an assignment they are implictly saying they have the time and the inclination to carry it out. Silly me.
I guess though anyone likely to get the vapours about a tense change rather than simply pointing it out as part of their review (and then sits on their assigment as punishment?) must live in a rather weird universe.
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Malcolm
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Quote: FergusHarrison, Tuesday, 6 Dec 2011 22:51"A member for 3 weeks with 3 assignment reviews in the bag and you are complaining?" I guess I assumed when someone clicks to accept an assignment they are implictly saying they have the time and the inclination to carry it out. Silly me. A lot of new members make the mistake of thinking everyone here will be as conscientious as they are. Some writers are nasty competitors, and they might sit on your story for their own nefarious purposes. And it's true, some people are just slackers. They don't take assignments seriously and they don't care how nerve-racked an author might be waiting for a review. But I think most people take an assignment with the intention of completing it. Some reviewers like to read a story and sleep on it, read it again, take their time and give you the most thoughtful review they can. These are the reviewers you hope to get, but sometimes life intervenes, or maybe death, and the review takes a fall in the reviewer's priorities. In any event, you have nothing to lose by giving the reviewer the benefit of the doubt.
No stars. No charts. Just crits.
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PERRY
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Well covered, Malcolm. I'd also like to add that you have a headache coming if you don't give the benefit of the doubt, because there are harpies about who cling like barnacles onto anyone who dares criticise those who do NOT have genuine reasons for pissing about. 
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notleyab
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Quote: FergusHarrison, Tuesday, 6 Dec 2011 22:51I guess though anyone likely to get the vapours about a tense change rather than simply pointing it out as part of their review (and then sits on their assigment as punishment?) must live in a rather weird universe. I hope you realise you are casting aspersions about the Pope in waiting.
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Joe 90
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Quote: kazmojazz, Tuesday, 6 Dec 2011 21:17This does seem to happen sometimes. Apparently, it's best to only add one credit to your story at a time. Seems to help - no idea why. Beth The credits used on this forum are an old fashioned combination of lead/tin alloy and mild steel outer casing. Ted told me some time back that they are trying out a newer lightweight titanium/molybdenum version which, though more expensive to manufacture, do move easily and can be piled up against your story. The old, heavy credits serve well when allocated singly, but stack more than two and they won't go through the assignment portal and you are left with a 'credit-jam' which Ted then has to unblock with the high-tech version of a toilet brush. Whatever you do, don't hoard credits. The weight of them will finally sink through your user area and leave a hole through which your written material will leak out into cyberspace. Come on Ted, hurry up with the light-creds!
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kazmojazz
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Quote: Joe 90, Wednesday, 7 Dec 2011 09:00Quote: kazmojazz, Tuesday, 6 Dec 2011 21:17This does seem to happen sometimes. Apparently, it's best to only add one credit to your story at a time. Seems to help - no idea why. Beth The credits used on this forum are an old fashioned combination of lead/tin alloy and mild steel outer casing. Ted told me some time back that they are trying out a newer lightweight titanium/molybdenum version which, though more expensive to manufacture, do move easily and can be piled up against your story. The old, heavy credits serve well when allocated singly, but stack more than two and they won't go through the assignment portal and you are left with a 'credit-jam' which Ted then has to unblock with the high-tech version of a toilet brush. Whatever you do, don't hoard credits. The weight of them will finally sink through your user area and leave a hole through which your written material will leak out into cyberspace. Come on Ted, hurry up with the light-creds!  Thank goodness someone knows how it works! If only I'd paid more attention in physics lessons. Poor old Ted, eh? What a job!
This post was last edited by kazmojazz, 07 Dec 2011, 09:07
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CaroleH
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Quote: PERRY, Wednesday, 7 Dec 2011 08:03Well covered, Malcolm. I'd also like to add that you have a headache coming if you don't give the benefit of the doubt, because there are harpies about who cling like barnacles onto anyone who dares criticise those who do NOT have genuine reasons for pissing about. Harpies?* I thought they were sharks? What about the pterodactyls? Some say there are rabid dogs patrolling the perimeter. Maybe the pterodactyls will get them? *Harpies are known to perch, rather than cling, as their sharp claws make it difficult to form suction. PS: Sometimes there be Dragons 
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Glitch on the site?
06 Dec 2011, 19:58
