Topic: Not new, but getting old fast!--No points for a regular review

I know more than one person has posted about this, and it's beginning to get old fast. When we take the time to read and do a regular review and don't have the whole review publish and don't get the points for it has become ANNOYING!

I just read "Pristine Universe" by Charles_F_Bell and gave a regular review since there was very little to nit. I got no points and it said I only had 22 words, when in truth it was 198. Below is the review.

2 in 1?

Mary had a little lamb whose fleas were white as snow and everywhere merry Mary went the lamb was sure to go.
Did you mean to say fleas? I think it might be sarcasm from you, but the actual word is fleece.

Call me absolutely nuts, but it seems there were two different stories here. The only connection is the name Joan. I suppose Mike & Misha might be the same person.

First, I thought we were going to have a story of a young man's grief and how he overcame and endured. The beginning is concrete and can be developed into a story of human survival.

Then we get the second part about a race bent on annihilating another and leave some invisible disease behind to do the job. I think that one deserves to be expanded and has a great amount of merit to make Misha a hero that finally restores his world to what it should be, even with its imperfections. This part is abstract, but it too can be developed into a story of human survival

The writing itself is poetic, but I'm a little lost as to the purpose of the story.

198 words

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Re: Not new, but getting old fast!--No points for a regular review

I'll look into it.

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3 Reply by SolN (edited by SolN 2015-06-04 15:29:58)

Re: Not new, but getting old fast!--No points for a regular review

What makes you think you didn't receive your points?

I checked and it looks like you first did an in-line review and received .63 points for it. You then did two reviews withthe following text.

"Mary had a little lamb whose fleas were white as snow and everywhere merry Mary went the lamb was sure to go."

This only has 22 words but even if it was longer you wouldn't receive points again; you already received them for the in-line review. Once  you review a piece, whether in-line or regular you don't receive points again if you do another review. There is no double points for leaving an in-line and regular review.

http://www.thenextbigwriter.com/posting … erse-20080

Is this not the correct scenario? Am I missing something here?

Sol

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Re: Not new, but getting old fast!--No points for a regular review

SolN wrote:

What makes you think you didn't receive your points?

I checked and it looks like you first did an in-line review and received .63 points for it. You then did two reviews withthe following text.

"Mary had a little lamb whose fleas were white as snow and everywhere merry Mary went the lamb was sure to go."

This only has 22 words but even if it was longer you wouldn't receive points again; you already received them for the in-line review. Once  you review a piece, whether in-line or regular you don't receive points again if you do another review. There is no double points for leaving an in-line and regular review.

http://www.thenextbigwriter.com/posting … erse-20080

Is this not the correct scenario? Am I missing something here?

Sol


I believe she only did one regular review...and did not do an in-line review.   She also did more than 22 words on her regular review.

sad

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Re: Not new, but getting old fast!--No points for a regular review

SolN wrote:

What makes you think you didn't receive your points?

I checked and it looks like you first did an in-line review and received .63 points for it. You then did two reviews withthe following text.

"Mary had a little lamb whose fleas were white as snow and everywhere merry Mary went the lamb was sure to go."

This only has 22 words but even if it was longer you wouldn't receive points again; you already received them for the in-line review. Once  you review a piece, whether in-line or regular you don't receive points again if you do another review. There is no double points for leaving an in-line and regular review.

http://www.thenextbigwriter.com/posting … erse-20080

Is this not the correct scenario? Am I missing something here?

Sol

Sol, I did the inline AFTER the regular review so I could get the points. The small amount you have listed is all that showed up. The review I pasted into this notification was the whole review, 198 words. It didn't even publish the whole thing. I had to keep hitting the back button until I got to where I had typed it. This is about the 5th time this kind of thing has happened to me alone & I know I read a "bug" notification by several others about this happening to them. So, yes, you are missing that regular reviews have been doing this often.

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Re: Not new, but getting old fast!--No points for a regular review

What operating system and browser are you using? I just tested it with the text you provided and it posted okay. Did you type the review directly into the box or paste it from somewhere else?

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Re: Not new, but getting old fast!--No points for a regular review

My guess is that if you are cut-and-pasting from anything other than a simple ASCII editor like Notepad (not MS-Word, for example) there is translated invisible codes that confuse the NTBW process.

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8 Reply by Janet Taylor-Perry (edited by Janet Taylor-Perry 2015-06-04 23:14:07)

Re: Not new, but getting old fast!--No points for a regular review

I typed directly into the box. The thing I copied and pasted was the one sentence that published. I copied that from Charles's piece so I could comment on it. I have Windows 7 on the computer I was using and I was using Google Chrome. I'm home now on my laptop. Same operating system & browser here.

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Re: Not new, but getting old fast!--No points for a regular review

Q? to check: If you have a too-short-no-points inline review and put in a long conventional review, does the long conventional review get points.  What if the types are reversed.

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Re: Not new, but getting old fast!--No points for a regular review

Then perhaps the invisible critter is being transported from over there in the copy of my text to be reviewed. I recall struggling with the NTBW editor for the upload and editing of that story.  There is still never a simple cut-and-paste from Word, fonts and all, into that editor.   For review I usually cut and paste the quoted text into notepad first, add my comments, and then paste over into the review comment field so all those invisible codes will be stripped.

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