51 Reply by Temple Wang (edited by Temple Wang 2015-01-14 00:45:41)

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Janet Taylor-Perry wrote:

I hate when I become defensive. I also hate when folks assume they know anything about me. Yes, I have advanced degrees--EARNED not given. Those degrees came about from my determination to rise above the circumstances in which I was born. Temple, I have never commented directly to you or about you in any way that should have been offensive. If you perceived my words as such, my sincerest apology. I, perhaps mistakenly, read your comment and thought you had confused my with the other Janet. I encourage you to read some of my short pieces on site--Fig Leaves and Toilet Paper as well as Stick Shifts and Modeling might give you a little insight into who I am. My short pieces are autobiographical anecdotes written with a touch of sarcasm. You appear to be an intelligent young woman with excellent writing skills. Use those gifts. I only ask that you refrain from making comments that could be construed as insults and attacks. I posted this here in open forum so that nobody can accuse me of such tactics.

Give it a rest, lady.  This didn't start off with any misunderstanding about your name.  It started with you taking the site thread off topic and playing mother hen to adults that don't need a mother hen.  The topic of this thread is Site Bugs.  If you had kept on topic to begin with, this discussion wouldn't have gone off the rails like it did.  If you want to pontificate on your degrees and your self-important blather, write a personal essay and post it or send a Quickee. 
SITE BUGS.

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njc wrote:

I'm about to play Mother Hen.  (Or maybe Foghorn Leghorn.)   I'll start by bragging about my qualifications.

I've been on online forums since 1981.  (You read that right.  Usenet, 1981.  Look up ihnp4.)

Life.  Get one.  SITE BUGS

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SolN wrote:

This has probably already been mentioned, but in case it hasn't, when I double-click a word while giving inline feedback, it usually selects two. Just a nit, but an annoying one.

Is this from computer or from tablet?

Shame on me. Forgot to include my support details. So much for my tech background. I'm using a Windows PC running Win 7 and the latest version of Google Chrome.

Thanks.
Dirk

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Sol, I seem to have lost a review. I reviewed a very short piece called Perplexing Pyramids from Derek Atkins that didn't require any inline comments nor even fifty words for a regular review. I went inline, left no inline comments, and just put a closing comment at the bottom, knowing that I wouldn't receive any points, which was fine. The system allowed me to submit this without apparent error, yet when I look for it my completed inline reviews, it's not there. Is it in the ether?

Win 7 PC & Google Chrome.

Thanks.
Dirk

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Norm d'Plume wrote:

Sol, I seem to have lost a review. I reviewed a very short piece called Perplexing Pyramids from Derek Atkins that didn't require any inline comments nor even fifty words for a regular review. I went inline, left no inline comments, and just put a closing comment at the bottom, knowing that I wouldn't receive any points, which was fine. The system allowed me to submit this without apparent error, yet when I look for it my completed inline reviews, it's not there. Is it in the ether?

Win 7 PC & Google Chrome.

Thanks.
Dirk

Dirk,

You might have tried this already, but if not, it could be the problem.

If you go to your "review" page, select the "in-line posted" tab, see if it isn't there as a draft.  If it is, then "view" it again and make sure you select the "Submit In-Line Review".

This is one of the changes that Sol and the team made to in-line reviews - you can save it as a draft to work on it over time or you can submit it immediately.  If you don't see it at all, then it's a Sol problem!  smile

Cheers Janet

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Hi Sol!  When trying to "publish and review" or "publish and post" my chapters the buttons for said choices don't seem to be working.  I'm using Google Chrome.  The content transfers over from my clipboard quite nicely but doesn't want to save to the site.  Is this a glitch?

Also, like Norm above I have a hard time just selecting one word for inline reviews.  I have this problem with both my laptop, desktop and surface.  Very frustrating.

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janet reid wrote:
Norm d'Plume wrote:

Sol, I seem to have lost a review. I reviewed a very short piece called Perplexing Pyramids from Derek Atkins that didn't require any inline comments nor even fifty words for a regular review. I went inline, left no inline comments, and just put a closing comment at the bottom, knowing that I wouldn't receive any points, which was fine. The system allowed me to submit this without apparent error, yet when I look for it my completed inline reviews, it's not there. Is it in the ether?

Win 7 PC & Google Chrome.

Thanks.
Dirk

Dirk,

You might have tried this already, but if not, it could be the problem.

If you go to your "review" page, select the "in-line posted" tab, see if it isn't there as a draft.  If it is, then "view" it again and make sure you select the "Submit In-Line Review".

This is one of the changes that Sol and the team made to in-line reviews - you can save it as a draft to work on it over time or you can submit it immediately.  If you don't see it at all, then it's a Sol problem!  smile

Cheers Janet

No, it's definitely not there.

Dirk

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58 Reply by janet reid (edited by janet reid 2015-01-14 21:41:59)

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mbledsoe wrote:

Hi Sol!  When trying to "publish and review" or "publish and post" my chapters the buttons for said choices don't seem to be working.  I'm using Google Chrome.  The content transfers over from my clipboard quite nicely but doesn't want to save to the site.  Is this a glitch?

Also, like Norm above I have a hard time just selecting one word for inline reviews.  I have this problem with both my laptop, desktop and surface.  Very frustrating.

My work around is to not select the whole word, but only the "middle" part. It then highlights the complete word automatically and works in general but obviously will still be a problem for 1-letter and 2-letter words. I use windows and google chrome.

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59 Reply by maxkeanu (edited by maxkeanu 2015-01-14 22:02:10)

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Janet Taylor-Perry wrote:

Max, you are a riot! Gotta love ya!

Talk about site bugs... that old communal outhouse had cockroaches, mealy worms, Ebola infected bats, blue flies, horse flies, tetste flies, a hornet's nest, and a honey badger lived under the outhouse... And, there was a computer, a Wang computer... but little Billy-Bob-Junior-Boy Smithers' computer was full of old Trojans and other hacker-attack goobers and mucky malware that gummed up gol-dang works!  But we was able to watch "Lives of the Rich and Famous" in that outhouse. Got pretty dang crowded with Ma, Pa, and my 30 brother(uncles) and sisters (aunts) piling in.

Did I veer off the tread theme? Jethro says I done did. That boy got book learning under his belt!

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janet reid wrote:
mbledsoe wrote:

Hi Sol!  When trying to "publish and review" or "publish and post" my chapters the buttons for said choices don't seem to be working.  I'm using Google Chrome.  The content transfers over from my clipboard quite nicely but doesn't want to save to the site.  Is this a glitch?

Also, like Norm above I have a hard time just selecting one word for inline reviews.  I have this problem with both my laptop, desktop and surface.  Very frustrating.

My work around is to not select the whole word, but only the "middle" part. It then highlights the complete word automatically and works in general but obviously will still be a problem for 1-letter and 2-letter words. I use windows and google chrome.

Thanks Janet.  I've been doing that but sometimes if there are two paragraphs that should be combined it selects the whole chunk and then tells me I have a bad selection because there is already another inline in the paragraph selected.  I've been doing my best to explain to the author what I mean but it's just a frustrating technicality of the page.  My bigger concern is not being able to "submit and review" my writing.  So far the only way I've been able to publish work is using my laptop.  The funny thing is that they are both using Google Chrome so I really don't know what's going on.  Maybe a firewall issue?

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61 Reply by njc

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There may be a setting in Chrome for whole-word selection (like MicroSlough) or doing what you tell it to do.

Several generations of Computer Science magi have tried to invent a working DoWhatIMean instruction.  From time to time some marketroid insists on writing it into the specs.

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Oh, that I don't think can be done - selecting a word or section "twice", but Sol will be the best person to confirm whether it's a site or chrome thing.  JR

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I've also had a similar problem where I could work fine on my iPhone but not my desktop. It turned out to be an issue with chrome on my desktop. If you have IE, double check as that confirmed it had been a chrome issue. Only solution I had after playing with my chrome settings was to uninstall and re-install chrome again and it was sorted. I still love chrome though!

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Chrome on my desktop has had a bug of its own infect it. Not on my laptop. Not sure if uninstalling and reinstalling Chrome will work for you, but it did on my laptop. I cannot paste from Word if using Explorer, only Chrome.

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mbledsoe wrote:
janet reid wrote:
mbledsoe wrote:

Hi Sol!  When trying to "publish and review" or "publish and post" my chapters the buttons for said choices don't seem to be working.  I'm using Google Chrome.  The content transfers over from my clipboard quite nicely but doesn't want to save to the site.  Is this a glitch?

Also, like Norm above I have a hard time just selecting one word for inline reviews.  I have this problem with both my laptop, desktop and surface.  Very frustrating.

My work around is to not select the whole word, but only the "middle" part. It then highlights the complete word automatically and works in general but obviously will still be a problem for 1-letter and 2-letter words. I use windows and google chrome.

Thanks Janet.  I've been doing that but sometimes if there are two paragraphs that should be combined it selects the whole chunk and then tells me I have a bad selection because there is already another inline in the paragraph selected.  I've been doing my best to explain to the author what I mean but it's just a frustrating technicality of the page.  My bigger concern is not being able to "submit and review" my writing.  So far the only way I've been able to publish work is using my laptop.  The funny thing is that they are both using Google Chrome so I really don't know what's going on.  Maybe a firewall issue?

You should be able to highlight more than one section within a para as I've done it on many occasions. It might help if you highlight from right to left vs left to right and maybe skip at least a sentence (or several words anyway) between the two portions highlighted. I have had the problem you refer to on occasion when it would highlight more than I wanted, but could mostly get around it going right to left though sometimes it just insists on putting in extra words which I simply accept and go on, trying to clarify in my statements. Take care. Vern

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66 Reply by janet reid (edited by janet reid 2015-01-15 00:27:24)

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Agree with you vern all the way, but I'm referring to selecting say a word to comment, and then trying to select a larger section that now contain that word+comment. Won't let you do it, but I haven't done an in-line review for a while so it could have changed.

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67 Reply by vern (edited by vern 2015-01-15 03:15:46)

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janet reid wrote:

Agree with you vern all the way, but I'm referring to selecting say a word to comment, and then trying to select a larger section that now contain that word+comment. Won't let you do it, but I haven't done an in-line review for a while so it could have changed.

You can go back again after closing it out and highlight that area including the word to create another box beneath the first one and comment on it. Take care. Vern

Edited for PS: I used that method (highlighting the same text) before the word limit was extended to get all my comments in.

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Sol, I seem to have lost a review. I reviewed a very short piece called Perplexing Pyramids from Derek Atkins that didn't require any inline comments nor even fifty words for a regular review. I went inline, left no inline comments, and just put a closing comment at the bottom, knowing that I wouldn't receive any points, which was fine. The system allowed me to submit this without apparent error, yet when I look for it my completed inline reviews, it's not there. Is it in the ether?
Win 7 PC & Google Chrome.
Thanks.
Dirk

We were making some changes to the system last night so it's possible  it ate your review. If so, I apologize. Have you lost any other reviews? If so, let  me know.

Thanks,
Sol

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Hi Sol!  When trying to "publish and review" or "publish and post" my chapters the buttons for said choices don't seem to be working.  I'm using Google Chrome.  The content transfers over from my clipboard quite nicely but doesn't want to save to the site.  Is this a glitch?
Also, like Norm above I have a hard time just selecting one word for inline reviews.  I have this problem with both my laptop, desktop and surface.  Very frustrating.

That's strange. The first problem is probably related to your computer settings. Make sure you have javascript enabled. If you still have this problem after fiddling with your settings, let me know and we will diagnose it further, perhaps with a telephone call.

In terms of in-line review precision, it is something we are working on. I can't promise an immediate fix but we are working on a new version of in-line reviews that will hopefully resolve some of these problems.

Sol

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Oh, that I don't think can be done - selecting a word or section "twice", but Sol will be the best person to confirm whether it's a site or chrome thing.  JR

This cannot be done. You can't select text twice.

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If you click on the already highlighted text, you can comment on the inline review. It will show up underneath the review comment.

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Yes, you can comment on it again, Janet.  But say you made a comment on a word in a specific sentence or paragraph, and then want to add a comment on the whole sentence or entire paragraph, you won't be able to select the sentence/paragraph because you can't select the word you've made a separate comment on again.  Hope this make sense!

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Guess you might, for now, have to type the word/sentence and then comment on the comment. It makes sense, and it becomes a pain. I still want the comment box to the side rather than over the text.

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74 Reply by njc

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Yestereve I used the 'paste from Wurd' option with my ODT file.  It worked much better than last time.  The only formatting glitch was that the fleuron lines came through left-justified instead of centered, and that might be a deliberate choice to feed downstream services.  (I was using Chrome.)

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SolN wrote:

Oh, that I don't think can be done - selecting a word or section "twice", but Sol will be the best person to confirm whether it's a site or chrome thing.  JR

This cannot be done. You can't select text twice.

Actually, it can be done or at least it could be before the word limit was extended (haven't tried it since) because I did it in order to get all my comments in. I simply clicked on the already highlighted area and it produced another comment box. Take care. Vern

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