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Hello, everyone!

This is a general note to let you all know that, with many thanks to Zak (Caos Accidentale), our Hinky Awards website is now back online and ready for use! Parts of the website are still in-progress, so bear with us, but the Eligibility Lists are a go, so you can now go there to fill those out. You will need to sign-in with your Story Board account and from there, select My Eligible to create your list. You can create your list over time, so don't worry about doing it all at once if you don't have the time to do so. The directions from there are laid out for you, and the Nomination Lists are simply a list of stories eligible for the various categories at the moment - not stories that have been nominated.

Also, because of the work on the website, we have pushed back the nomination start date to JUNE 20TH, in order to allow everyone a bit more time to get their eligible stories listed. The eligibility period for this Hinkys still ends on the 15th, though. Eligible stories must be completed by that date, and stories for the Work In-Progress category must have been updated within the current eligibility period, as always.

If problems arise while creating your list, please let us know ASAP so we can fix them!

Now, without further ado, The Hinky Site!

Any questions anyone has, please feel free to ask right here and we'll do what we can to help.

A) Do our stories have to be up on the story board in order to link them to the Hinky site?

B) When I try to log on, it says I must use a valid user name and password. I'm using the same ones I use on the story board. (Sorry to throw a problem at you right off the bat. )

A) No, you don't. You can link directly to here. If your stories are on the Story Board, you just have them already listed.

B) ...it should work. I don't know why it's not. We will bring it up with our experts.

I can't log on either. I thought it was me, that I'd changed my password and forgotten about it. BTW, all the stories on the story board that were given the blue ribbons lately are all messed up like before. No title visible, etc.

Darn it. What it's sounding like to me is that "regular" members (that is, non staff members) aren't able to log in, though I can't be for sure. And here I thought we had those things ironed out. Ah, well. Another project for Zak.

It's not an isolated incident. I, too, am unable to sign in using my NFA Storyboard username/password combination. (Not that I have much to put on my eligibility list...)

We'll work on it!

I can't get in either - but that's not really why I'm here.

This is the first time I have anything eligible for the Hinkys and I'm not really sure what the eligibility form is really for. Is it just a helping hand for the nomination process or do we have to fill it out in order to be nominated? (Not that I won't fill it out... I'm just confuddled tonight.)

This is a new thing we're doing since we've got the Hinky's site (sort of) up and running. Making a list of all of your eligible stories makes it easier to nominate them, but it's not required. People can enter your stories themselves.

Thanks for the explanation!

I have one question about the eligible stories!

What category do stories that are written for NFA Games prizes fall to, if they're still not finished? Would it just go to WIP?

I can't log on either. Just thought I should let you know

If it's not finished, then it is only eligible for the WIP category.

It seems that no one outside of the staff can log on right now. We'll see about getting that fixed ASAP.

I can't get in either and I logged into the story board to check my username and password. I'm also NFA staff but not Hinky staff.

I can't log in, either. And I know my username. I checked the passsword. It's right. Weird.

it doesn't like me either,

I have a question, there was the SeSa that hasn't pulled thro on the story selection.

ooops this appeared:

That's the way the Cookie Crumbles has been added to Category: Crack!Fic.


Warning: mysqli_num_rows() expects parameter 1 to be mysqli_result, boolean given

That's the way the Cookie Crumbles has been added to Category: Death.


Warning: mysqli_num_rows() expects parameter 1 to be mysqli_result, boolean given

That's the way the Cookie Crumbles has been added to Category: Humor.


Warning: mysqli_num_rows() expects parameter 1 to be mysqli_result, boolean given

That's the way the Cookie Crumbles has been added to Category: Death.


Warning: mysqli_num_rows() expects parameter 1 to be mysqli_result, boolean given

That's the way the Cookie Crumbles has been added to Category: Anthony "Tony" DiNozzo.

'K. Give me a minute to look at it (dang it, it's been working perfectly during testing....)

I always cause problems sorry..........story of my life.

and how do I change catogories?

I cannot get the error to duplicate.

Please try adding that story again and see if it works.

nope did it again

Errors notwithstanding, it looks as though the Hinky site is working now.

Still can't get that error to duplicate, Pat. I sent you a PM...

received and replied oh green one

Thanks, Pat. I found the error and have successfully added that story for you.

Thank you, glad I could be of some assistance.

one question why do I have a pen beside the story, and one I have classed wrong? can we ever change. and new stories added to NFA board should appear, as I just added SeSa which I thought i'd done but hadn't.

The pen beside the story is in case you want to edit the link (say you decide you'd rather the story link to the version on your Author Forum).

I can set up a way to remove your own stories from categories, too (but in the meantime--which one do you want to have removed from which category--staff members can make those changes).

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Yep. Anything added to the Storyboard during the Eligibility Period (in this case June 15th) will automatically add to the drop-down options for you. If it's added to the storyboard after June 15th (even if it was posted elsewhere during the Eligibility Period), it won't appear in the list until the next Hinky Award season. But you can still add those stories by entering the title and link.

I named Amazingly Disorintated a Tony/McGee, should actually be a Tony/Ziva, or the team as a whole.

thank you.

oh I see so the pics of MH in the author forum for one of the stories.............nah too complicated just leave.

I made a mistake in one of the titles of my stories. How would I fix it?

Which story? (Currently you don't have the option, I'll see if I can rig something up. In the meantime, I can fix it for you.)

Can I just say that I am so impressed with this? My hats off to all the staff that have worked on this

*points to Zak* It's all him.

You are absolutely allowed to go back and add your story to another category.

The / thing has been fixed (It was actually a coding error rather than you typing it. Oops! But that's been caught and fixed now, so thanks for pointing it out!)

(And thanks, Valerie and Carolyn--I've been wanting to learn how to code stuff like this for a while, so this project gave me the excuse to play around with it. It's been challenging, but fun!)

I'm glad I told you, then!

How exactly would I make the changes? Do I need to redo a whole story to change one thing I [mistakely] clicked? Will I have an outdated duplicate and the new one both running around?!

The computer and I are not friends. Frienemies, more like.

Okay... so who do we talk to when we make an error? I accidently tagged something as eligible that I didn't want to and I want it wiped.

You can post it here, and one of the staff will take care of it.

Sweet!

Could someone wipe out Scraps of Paper please? I accidentally confused it with my other oneshot starting with a 's'!

Done!

Much obliged to thee!

No worries!

Success! Thank you, O Admins of Great and Unrivaled Skill!

Hinky site is working just dandy for me now.

Thank you so much for doing this, Zak. It's going to make the whole process so much easier!

Could some kind soul correct a typo I made on the title of one of my stories? Superman and Hid Sidekick should be Superman and His Sidekick ("his" not "hid").

Many thanks!

Done!

Thank you, Zherry.

Could someone please put Just another Christmas in the F7-F15 McAbby group? I clicked the F18 F21 group.

It's been removed. You should be able to add it to the F7-F15 group yourself.