Hello

I'm killing two birds with the one stone here. Two queries, but the first one is just a whinge to get it off my chest.

1. The other day, of the 15 games in Duel, I won 14 games and tied in another. Alas, this meant no badge for getting all fifteen, and though this is not a life threatening event, I'm still grumpy about it. That's the whinge. I'll live. Don't worry about it.

2. More importantly, one of our team members wrote to me today with this query re submitting new questions: "...I have had a question in the queue since the end of march or the beginning of april. and, it's still sitting there. I don't understand it..."

I've explained to this member that, like the popular quiz categories, some questions take a lot longer to go through than other - General and Humanities for example - that those category editors handle the same quiz categories as well, and can get snowed under, and that a lot of the editors hold down day jobs in addition to being editors. BUT it set me thinking re the following:

Would it be possible to have an automatic notice put in, that, if there are too many questions in any particular queue, writers can be told *before* submitting one to that category?

That way writers are not sitting rounding waiting for them to accepted. It can be a deterrent to members who have worked up the courage to submit their first single questions and who are waiting anxiously to see their name in print. And it really IS a thrill when players first start writing questions and they're accepted. It makes them feel good and that's what FT is all about - making people happy. It also encourages them to write more - AND then to attempt quizzes.

Are they sure it's still in the queue and unedited, or do they mean it is in the list of accepted and will be played sometime soon? Although questions can wait around for a while, three months is surprisingly long!

I have had a few that seem to get lost in the shuffle and go a bit longer than even the slow category "average" ...but I am talking on the order of 2-3 weeks....I think one even approached a month...but it would seem something is askew if it really has been that long in the pending queue

Is this someone who has submitted before and knows the ropes? Another possibility I wonder about is if they are "new"...is it possible the question has been rejected/sent back for corrections? That is not as in your face obvious as it is with a quiz and the conspicuous correction email from the editor with the red text in the subject area. On single Q, you almost have to hunt for it, the link "My contributions, not yet accepted" is not a perfectly indicative title of the place you would go to find rejected questions. Even after getting your feet wet if you weren't paying attention to your count of submissions, it might be easy to miss a rejected submission since it falls into a bit of limbo and drops off your personal counter.

Sorry may have gne a bit sideways off the exact topic at hand but I thought this might be an appropriate context under which to ask; would it be possible to get the link name changed there to show it includes rejected questions, or, add a third line to the user counters (currently lists "accepted questions", and "questions pending review") which indicates the count of rejected questions. Or maybe both.

I did ask the player to check to see if the editor wanted the questions tweaked, but didn't think to ask if it was either still in the queue or accepted and waiting to go online. So will do so and verify one way or the other.

I have a question that was accepted by the Editor on April 18, which is still waiting to debut, and quite a few from mid-May. That is fairly standard.

I agree with namrewsna regarding the rejection notification. I had one knocked back, which I did not ever realise until about 10 days later.The red Correction note into the mailbox would be perfect, and would show consistency.

Oh and smehow it got left off my first note. I meant to say Creedy, sorry about 14-0-1 on duel. That is some very rotten luck!

Thanks

Still waiting for the team member to answer my notes

Update: That question has been in the player's "Recently Accepted Submissions" since a couple of days after being submitted. Talk about a storm in a teacup. I've told player that means the question HAS gone through, it'll go online eventually, and not to worry about it. Lord bless us one and all.

(And I got another 14 games in the Duel last night. No tie for the 15th this time though. So exciting!)

That's why our team pays you the big money, Pat!

Lol! I want a raise

I have a toe not being used at the moment Pat.

With or without clean socks?

(I can't get this page to go back to page 1. How odd)

That has happened to me beofre. The only way I've figured how to get back to page one is to go to the original list and then hit the title of the thread instead of trying to go back to page one using that link.

Yeah, it happens to me, too. Sue's right, going back to the title is the best way.