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Started 4 weeks ago by HappyPerson
Latest reply from watcher13

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HappyPerson

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Hi GOTD Team,

The ratings system (i.e., the seven evaluation categories) contain a glitch, whereby our ratings magically disappear into never never land, after we input our comments and click the "submit button."

Today, I provided ratings and comments for all 7 categories, clicked the submit button, and everything looked okay at first (i.e., it said there was one review, namely by me) -but when I later clicked on the review links, my comments completely disappeared into thin air, and the ratings categories incorrectly displayed zero (0) reviews for certain areas (not for all, just some).

Others have also mentioned this before, so I hope GOTD is working on a fix soon.

Thanks,
Happy

Posted 4 weeks ago #
notblocklox

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Yep, that happened to me too.

Posted 4 weeks ago #
HappyPerson

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Well, I'm happy to know I'm in good company :)

Posted 4 weeks ago #
aRenegade

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HappyPerson I don't understand why your comments are being flagged as spam on the main site. By definition spam means, "to post a message many times to a newsgroup, or an inappropriate message to multiple newsgroups." I don’t see anything that could be deemed inappropriate or unwanted about your posts.

Notblocklox, the occasional drop is one thing, but HappyPerson has been having problems that I think go beyond the occasional drop. His or her comments are no more inappropriate than ashraf's. They both use the same format (i.e., good, bad, and conclusion) with the exception being HappyPerson doesn’t resort to cliffhanger summaries as a means of driving traffic to a personal web site. So, anyone who wants to promote their personal stuff should be allowed to do so; I believe the term is “equal opportunity”.

Perhaps notblockox, since you are a moderator you could do a little more to check out the spam filter tags? And HappyPerson a question; who exactly have you emailed or pm’ed on the GOTD team to see what up with all this?

"The Truth Is Out There"

Posted 3 weeks ago #
HappyPerson

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Hi aRenegade, thanks much for your concern and thoughtfulness regarding this matter.

I sent a message to the GOTD Admin team and today received a follow-up message from one of the team members - so, I am confident that we will (altogether, hand-in-hand) be able to figure out what's going on.

I also am very touched by the outpouring of support that I am getting from very nice GOTD members (like you, aRenegade, and others) about my posting/review issue. The GOTD community (mods and general membership, alike) are a wonderful bunch of people.

Many thanks again aRenegade,
Happy Person

Posted 3 weeks ago #
HappyPerson

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By the way, I am a female, and my real (first) name is Inas, just in case anyone is interested or has been wondering about this......

I know that some of the wonderful mods who have been helping me have been thinking that I am a male. Isn't it funny how people tend to assume certain things? LOL.

Anyway, I am thrilled to be a member of this terrific GOTD community/family.

Best,
Inas

Posted 3 weeks ago #
notblocklox

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Happy, LOL, for the male"-ification". I sometimes have the same fate.

Another wrong assumption is that mods of the forums can moderate the comments.
If I could, believe me, the list of comments would be very short on certain days.(Especially the cliffhangers would be in great danger...)

BuBBy (with others) is moderating the comments - but of course not 24/7. Several times he offered users to send him a PM when they have problems, and he several times could help.
WR is moderating the games comments.

By the way, aRenegade, I don't think it is appropriate, to tell somebody who is moderating in their free time s/he "could do a little more". I'm sure there are always others who could do it better - if they just would do anything. We don't do it for money, we don't do it for a medal or for hymns of praise, it's just to help other users. It's my way to say "Thanks" for all the help I got in the WWW.

graylox

Posted 3 weeks ago #
watcher13

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Yeah, I originally had the moderator issue confused too, until I found out that you actually have to be an Administrator to moderate the comment section. In fact, WR can't moderate the GOTD, only the Games pages, if I remember correctly. Actually, there are precious few who can. Bubby is the only one I know of that regularly posts in the forums. The one or two others are GOTD staff. Bubby maybe the only one outside the staff who knows who can and can't, and he may or may not know how many or few of the staff Admins there even are. Obviously, these problems are related to the new system, and the admins may have to fix them on a case by case basis if they can't see any trends. :( I hope they can fix Whiterabbit's erratic problems. If HE can't post consistently, we're ALL in trouble. :)

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