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Andy P.Re: Readerboard totals; Where do I find these? I'm not in any danger of coming close to finishing, but I'd like to see if my totals agree with yours. I'd belive yours before I believed mine if there was a discrepancy
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1. Post any tasks that you have already completed NOW. A long, impressive list posted at the last minute may seem cool, but it creates many potential problems for you and for the moderators. If your tasks are not posted completely and correctly by midnight on November 30, you don’t get credit for them, no matter why they didn’t get posted.
• There’s no telling when Goodreads will give you problems – remember when it went down on the last night of the winter challenge? the "capacity" issues? You may have trouble with Goodreads, with the internet or with your computer - things happen.
• If you post tasks at the last minute, problems may not be identified in time for you to deal with them and get credit for the task. Sometimes the problem is that you forgot to add information, but if you don’t post until the last day, there may not be time for me to identify the problem and you to fix it before midnight.
• Remember that to get credit for a task, it must be posted with all necessary requirements in the post and the books must fit the task. If you have any doubts about a book that you’re planning to read at the last minute, you should get it approved in the help thread (and include that information in your post) to avoid any last minute disappointments. And even if it is approved in the Help Thread, you still need to include the required information
2. If you’re planning on reading any books that only exist in e-book form, make sure NOW that they’ve been approved for length. If they haven’t already been approved, post in the approval thread NOW, so that we will have time to do the research and give you the green light. To be safe, you should request approval by the end of the day on the 29th at the latest – I will be focused on the Readerboard on the 30th. And if your book is marginal on page length, you should make sure that it’s fully approved, not just conditionally approved, before you rely on it to fulfill a task. Remember to include the verification reference when you post
3. Check your Readerboard totals for points, GR authors and Big Books NOW. If they don’t agree with your records, first make sure that you check the post through which the readerboards have been updated, keeping in mind that they all aren’t necessarily updated through the same post number. Then check your math, check to see if you have messages in the ?/problems thread, check to make sure that you’ve actually posted the tasks that you think you have – GR has been known to eat messages! If checking all of those things doesn’t resolve the discrepancy, post in the ?/problems thread right away, giving as much info as possible so that we can try to resolve it. Please remember that if there was a problem with a post a REPOST is necessary, we DO NOT go back to the original post. Editing a post NEVER solves a problem.
4. From here on out, the best thing would be for you to post tasks as you finish them, rather than holding them to post a bunch at a time. And, please, before you post, read the task requirements! If something says REQUIRED, you must include it. Read through the task requirements one last time, to make sure that your book actually works for the task and that you’ve included everything.
Thanks!