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Thank you for this update! I've only gained 40 points this task (I'm a newbie) but I've throughly enjoyed it!
Thanks for posting, Kristi! I've actually been meaning to ask you if you like it better to get one post with multiple tasks or if it's better to post them as we finish them. ;) Right now I have 3 2-book tasks where I've only read one book so I'm working on finishing them. :) I'll be sure to post them as I'm done with them. :)
D.G. ~Shameless Hussy~ wrote: "Thanks for posting, Kristi! I've actually been meaning to ask you if you like it better to get one post with multiple tasks or if it's better to post them as we finish them. ;)"Usually, it doesn't matter but when we're getting down to the wire it's better to post them as you finish them in case GRs loses its mind. (I know, I know, it could never happen............. ;-)).
Thanks for the reminder Kristi! I have a ton of books that I've read but haven't posted yet so I'll have to get on that!
Just a couple of days left in the Winter Challenge! Please check the Readerboard to make sure your totals match mine. If not, check the ? thread to see if you need to repost something. If you can't figure out where the discrepancy is, let me know in the ? thread so we can get problems worked out now (see message 1 for links and other hints).
No more to post but wanted to take an opportunity to thank you and all the other moderators for all your hard work. This is my first challenge but I have had a delightful time reading and trying to fit books to challenges. Just retired from 35 years of teaching in high school, so needed a challenge. Thanks again
Wanda wrote: "No more to post but wanted to take an opportunity to thank you and all the other moderators for all your hard work. This is my first challenge but I have had a delightful time reading and trying t..."Congratulations on your retirement, Wanda. Thirty-five years, wow! Enjoy your well-deserved reading time.
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 February 28, 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 last 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 27th at the very latest. 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!