http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ Web Fiction Guide Forums » Forum: Feedback - Recent Posts en Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:44:32 +0000 http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/featured-listings-featured-update#post-7643 Fri, 23 Dec 2011 03:49:17 +0000 Wildbow 7643@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>So noted. It came up and was replaced a short time later by another review, but I'll be sure to screenshot it next time it happens, if it happens again. Though as I think on it, it might've had a low reader rating and a high editor one.</p> <p>Thanks for answering my question, Chris. </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/featured-listings-featured-update#post-7642 Fri, 23 Dec 2011 02:25:02 +0000 Chris Poirier 7642@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>The featured listings and updates require an editorial review at or above 4 stars. The featured updates are drawn from the RSS feeds of qualified listings.</p> <p>If you've seen something with two stars get featured, please let me know which listing it was, and I'll look into the problem. </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/featured-listings-featured-update#post-7641 Fri, 23 Dec 2011 01:55:39 +0000 Wildbow 7641@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>I've glanced over the site and this forum and I'm a little unclear on the subject of the Featured Listing and Featured Update on the main page.</p> <p>Out of curiosity, what determines what makes an update or listing 'featured'? I've seen listings with ratings as low as two stars get featured, so it doesn't necessarily seem to be the most popular stories going up.</p> <p>I'm suspicious the featured update bit is derived from RSS feeds (and added my RSS feed to my submission), but I'm especially curious about the featured listing. I'm not really going out of my way to advertise my story, I'm really majorly hugely thankful for the readers &amp; the feedback this site provides, and I'm planning on getting into reviews in the new year. I'm just wondering how this (prominent) part of Webfictionguide works, before I get underway, both for potential exposure for my story and for worthy stories I happen to review.</p> <p>(Hoping the featured update/listing requirement isn't "don't ask about the featured update/listing", haha) </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/linking-to-this-site-from-my-site#post-7620 Fri, 09 Dec 2011 08:52:57 +0000 Chris Poirier 7620@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>If that's what you'd normally do, then do that. It'll work fine. </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/linking-to-this-site-from-my-site#post-7616 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 23:30:27 +0000 Regina 7616@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>No, I simply don't know what to do with them. I'd normally just get the address from the address bar and past it into a text link in my links section. But I don't know what to do with the strings of code. </p> <p>What's the end result supposed to look like? </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/linking-to-this-site-from-my-site#post-7614 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 22:43:36 +0000 Chris Poirier 7614@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>Those links are raw HTML. Are you perhaps pasting them into something that expects to generate the HTML for you? </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/linking-to-this-site-from-my-site#post-7609 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 13:23:58 +0000 Regina 7609@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>This is what I found (it's in the sidebar in "linking to us" in the "Info and submissions" section.</p> <p><a href="http://webfictionguide.com/about/linking-to-us/" rel="nofollow">http://webfictionguide.com/about/linking-to-us/</a></p> <p>And I admit, I can be a bit of a thick woman. ;-DDDD </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/linking-to-this-site-from-my-site#post-7604 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 09:28:33 +0000 ubersoft 7604@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>Wait, there are links? I just used a text link. Where are the site links?</p> <p>... I am not an observant man. </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/linking-to-this-site-from-my-site#post-7603 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 08:37:47 +0000 Regina 7603@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>I see that you links available to put on other sites to link back to this one, but they all seem to lead back to Bing. I want to link back to this site, but I want to make sure it's in a way this site owner approves. </p> <p>I'm not entirely sure how these links are to be used or how you want them to appear. Would you not like me to simply list a text link that goes directly to the home page here? </p> <p>Please advise. </p> <p>Thanks,</p> <p>'gina </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/is-there-a-way-to-associate-a-review-more-closely-with-a-reviewers-star-rating#post-7201 Fri, 19 Aug 2011 16:27:09 +0000 ubersoft 7201@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>Cool. I'll go back and remove my placeholders since they're redundant now. :-) </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/is-there-a-way-to-associate-a-review-more-closely-with-a-reviewers-star-rating#post-7200 Fri, 19 Aug 2011 16:23:51 +0000 Chris Poirier 7200@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>Meh—I'll just display them again. Easiest change to make. :-) </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/is-there-a-way-to-associate-a-review-more-closely-with-a-reviewers-star-rating#post-7199 Fri, 19 Aug 2011 16:09:42 +0000 Chris Poirier 7199@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>It used to be there, but I removed it, after the site got dozens of 5 star reviews for a particular piece—largely by people who never came back or looked at anything else. I hesitate to call the ratings "spam", but that's what it felt like. At the moment, only editorial ratings show on the main pages, as I know we all are using the same scale and have some frame of reference for it. I'll look into seeing if I can find some middle ground. </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/is-there-a-way-to-associate-a-review-more-closely-with-a-reviewers-star-rating#post-7198 Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:46:58 +0000 ubersoft 7198@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>One thing I've noticed is that when I've been writing reviews I've explained (occasionally) why I gave it the star rating I did. A few other reviewers are doing the same thing. This works on the webfiction dedicated page, but I notice that if you click the reviews link and read the reviews en masse, all you get is the text of the review -- the stars don't display. For that reason I'm going to go back through my reviews and actually list the star rating in the text, so that if I do explain why I rated it as I did there will be some context. But I was wondering if there was a way to show the star rating with the reviews in all of the views? Maybe not, but if it's possible it would be helpful. </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/question-about-rss-feedlatest-updates-feature#post-7112 Thu, 11 Aug 2011 19:30:30 +0000 ubersoft 7112@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>Ah, thanks! </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/question-about-rss-feedlatest-updates-feature#post-7111 Thu, 11 Aug 2011 17:33:49 +0000 Chris Poirier 7111@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>I hadn't enabled the feed on your listing. It's fixed. </p>