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[08/21/00] - What a hectic couple of weeks! RL conspired against me, I swear, and since a couple of staff members were out sick it didn't help the situation ;) Oh, well, at least I have a good reason for a late update: this one is huge! :)
I'm very pleased by the quality and quantity of work I am getting as for submissions! You guys are awesome and each update I have to reject lesser and lesser reviews (and for the most part it's little booboos more than any real fixes :) Congratulations to you guys, and good luck to future contributors :)
My sincerest thanks have to go out to Scarmiglion and Googleshng, who really helped me get this update together when my internet connection failed. For those of you who have emailed me in the past couple days, I'm sorry but I don't know when I'll be able to respond. This lack of access shouldn't last long and hopefully my next update won't be as late ;) Keep submitting those reviews!
UPDATE UPDATE! Okay, so maybe that's a bit redundant, but it does cover what I've changed. You'll notice the update status bar in the lower right corner has changed. It now reflects how many reviews I got in text versus how many were in HTML. Why do this, you ask? I'm trying to encourage more HTMLized reviews. Two things I'd like to hear feedback for, especially from those of you who have submitted in text: would a notepad friendly version of the template help? and, would a checklist of things to fill out help? Email Points of View and tell me :)
SUBMISSIONS UPDATE! I can now accept pretty much every kind of archive there is. So, make sure you zip, rar, sit, and all the other lovely archives out there, up your review! :)
Review Writing BooBoos
AOHell
AOL drives me batty. They have some sort of parental shields which, since RPGamer has no rating with them, block all emails from me. Please do NOT submit from AOL. If you have submitted in the past from AOL and gotten no response, chances are your review went into the garbage because it was rejected and I had no way of contacting you. If you use AOL and wish to submit, please go get a free email account on the internet. Sites such as excite, hotmail, and yahoo! may be substandard to some people, but at least they're free and most give you 2000KB of space for email. This of course applies more to future submissions and/or people who have previously submitted and gotten no answer. Those who have successfully submitted from AOL (CLOUDBONDOO7 comes to mind as one) need not worry.
A few reminders
Just some little reminders that need to be touched upon:
-Please, please, if you can, archive (like zip or sit) your review! It makes submissions so much easier for me to handle. Winzip, for example, is free, and is very small (I run it off my not so nice computer just fine), so please remember ;)
-Please include a title to your review whether it is HTMLized or in text format. Reiterating the game name is not a title, and I will be no longer accepting reviews with no titles.
-Please do not use 2 different emails when submitted (such as emailing from one and putting another one on the review, submitting the review twice from 2 different emails, etc. Use the email to submit what you want to appear on the review.
-Please remember two 'two updates' rule of thumb. If for some reason your review doesn't go up the first update that goes by, please do not spam my box with another copy of the reviews with no explanation (actually, no spamming it at all thanks). If it somehow gets missed, email me back withOUT the review.
- Anna Marie "Paws" Whitehead
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