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1 votes
Allow A Comment When You Accept Someone As A Contact
When people request to be your contact, they often make a personal comment. It would be nice to be able to accept them as a contact with a personal reply as well.
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1 votes
Enlarge the Annotation Box
The annotation box is Book Oven is narrow, requiring more scrolling than is necessary. If you'd just widen the box to have a left margin the same width as the original text it would make things easier.
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1 votes
Relocate the "More of this text, please!" button
When you are searching through the snippets to find something worth editing, its helpful to have the "More of this text, please!" button visible rather than having to scroll down the page for it. Should be very close to the snippet.
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1 votes
Purge Submissions That Are Not Being Managed
This is specific to Book Oven, but also relates to Bite Size Edits as well. There are a number of authors who have made submissions and then disappeared, with no activity for months and months. If an author or project owner hasn't logged on or had any activity in a certain period - I'd Suggest ... more
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4 votes
Discontinue Edits on Published Works
It's ridiculous to drop in published works just for the heck of it. Lose it
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1 votes
Limit The Size of Submissions
Your have contributors who tend to "hog" the snippets because they have submitted massive quantities of text - so their work comes up too frequently in the random selections. Furthermore, the people who've made these submissions are frequently people whose writing is so weak. . . .well... more
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2 votes
Create a mobile-friendly theme
Maybe the theme isn't loading on my ancient non-3G iphone, or maybe your theme just isn't rendering well. Either way, it's basically unreadable on my iphone. Is this just me? Can send screenshots, but I'd love to be able to edit in my sleep.
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2 votes
put a thumbs up sign for I like the way you wrote this.
Sometimes the sentence is not just right, but it is beautifully written. I think a thumbs up sign with the word Like could count how many editors liked it.
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5 votes
I would like to comment on edit sometimes
It happes sometimes an editor just misunderstands a snippet. For example, "like" is interpreted as feeling instead of similarity. This means my phrase is not clear. I would like to clarify it for an editor then and get another suggestion.
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3 votes
Some edits suggest no change
I encountered many times edits containing no change to the original bite. I canot either refuse, nor accept those for I don't know whether my phrase needs editing or not. It woud be right if BSE compared a prototype bite and suggested edit and refused to post those without change.
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0 votes
Some edits look like rubbish
It happened few times to my text: in suggested edit box were just random characters. I thought taht if I just refuse the "edit" the corresponding phrase will never be presented for editing again. I would like to put it back for editing then.
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5 votes
Make editors' comments reply-able.
Some of the comments that have come in I'd love to be able to reply to-- there is an opportunity for conversations here. Maybe that's ancillary to the point of the site?
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2 votes
Have a way to flag a snippet
I love the UI that lets me scroll quickly through all the pending edits for approval, but I have had some good comments that I want to go back to for higher-level edits. It would be great to be able to flag/tag a snippet (ie "Plot point" "Character issue" etc).
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0 votes
group projects as "chapters" of a whole
it would be great to be able to group subprojects (ie chapters) so you could add sections as you go along --
some people might want to see statistics per section or even have multiple versions goingStatus: under reviewyes, in the future plans as well - & in addition, we'd like you to be able to export grouped projects to epub etc.
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5 votes
make it possible to edit project info/settings
From: Maureen & MAJ:
I'd like to be able to edit my project info (title, summary, etc).
Status: under reviewyes, we'd like to add this.
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2 votes
I think blank lines are being treated as a snippet
I've occasionally been offered a blank snippet by BSE.
I guess this is because people are entering blank lines between paragraphs or at the start/end of the uploaded piece? These should be stripped, it's annoying for the editor but also means that a piece is broken up into more snippets and ther... more
Status: plannedthanks ziz, we have a bit work to do on text processing, and this should certainly be part of it.
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2 votes
Ability to block snippets from particular users
I've noticed at least 1 user that appears to be a commercial enterprise using BSE, ok, well, i'm very happy to help out other writers, and I do comprehend the link between writers and publishers, but I'd rather not do paid editors work for them, or i'd at least like to have a choice.
In the same... more
Status: under reviewyes, we've talked about flagging bad edits in the system, but a bit more control to stop seeing stuff you don't want makes lots of sense.
