So, shooting you wasn't enough; he has to mess with your hobby too? What a douche canoe.
I guess I don't have a good enough memory of the review writing page. (I have three I need to do but I'm being lazy lol) but if there's a delete review button on there, we should think about getting rid of that.
I think I tried to post a review. I filled in all the information, and I think I clicked the right buttons, but the review is not showing up under "my reviews" as a pending review. I am afraid that I clicked the wrong button somewhere along the way. So I guess my question is: when you do everything right, can you immediately see your review in the "my reviews" as a pending review? Any thoughts? Thanks!
Finger slip, or the computer logged you off, or lost a connection right as you tried to submit. Sometimes shit happens.
You are right to expect the pending review to show up under "my reviews." If it was actually submitted, it would say "new," then eventually "approved, "unapproved" or "deferred."
Because shit happens sometimes, it is best to write the review (general and juicy details) in another program. Some folks use text documents, some do it in a draft email folder to themselves. Once it is done, you open the profile, fill out the top portion then copy and paste the details part into the review form. This way even if something goes wrong you still have your original and can redo the copy and paste rather than starting from scratch.
In Suggestion and Policy, there have been many suggestions to TER about updating their software. Adding a "Save as Draft" or "Save until later" feature to reviews is one of the suggestions.
I think that TER Forum software might have been written in-house. There is no way to Preview or Save as Draft forum posts, either. And the threading is terrible: flat or tree, that's it. There are many free (open software) forum softwares that TER might be able to adapt to. (Importing an old, existing forum to a new, different forum software can be very, very difficult!!)
And, yes, I've accidentally lost reviews and posts. Sometimes I do something wrong. Sometimes, I get logged out due to inactivity (typing is not the same as clicking). Sometimes, I do everything right but I get a TER error message: "Something went wrong!" And the bad part of that is, just trying to "go back" doesn't recover all that entered text. Something else that TER has to consider updating, too.
That said, I'd rather have an occasional annoying glitch than a totally broken system
Leave out all juicy details. All levels gotta eat!
Thanks for all the input. I think I figured out what I did wrong last time.
...it could be helpful for other newbies.
After thinking it over, I have two theories . . .
1. I was not careful and I was in a hurry, and I clicked the wrong button and deleted the review instead of posting it. The second time I went slowly and carefully, and made sure to click the right button each time. I think this is the more likely explanation.
2. less likely, but I will not rule it out, is my lifelong rival and nemisis Mr. Aaron Burr was somehow behind the dastardly deed of foiling my review. (LOL! J/K
So, shooting you wasn't enough; he has to mess with your hobby too? What a douche canoe.
I guess I don't have a good enough memory of the review writing page. (I have three I need to do but I'm being lazy lol) but if there's a delete review button on there, we should think about getting rid of that.
You shouldn't have to write a book for reviews. The importance keys to paid service.
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