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Posting Requirements Effective Spring 2022
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ONLY ONE TASK MAY BE INCLUDED IN A POST
1. Include your Readerboard name at the TOP of your post.
(Not required if your Readerboard name is the same as the name that appears in the shaded area above your posts.)
2. Include Task # and a short (1-5 word) Task Description.
3. To claim a task in Completed Tasks, the book you use MUST exist on Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ. Instructions on manually adding a book to the Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ database can be found in post 9 of Add a book instructions. You MUST include a link to the book edition you read and the link must be included along with the specific task posting information. For instructions on adding a link, see post 1 of Add book/author/cover Instructions in General Help.
Note: If no link, then NO points, NO Big Book tickets, NO Golden Oldies tickets, NO It's A Fact tickets.
If the task involves an element on the cover of the book, you MUST include the cover itself in your post.
Note: If no cover, then NO points, NO Big Book tickets, NO Golden Oldies tickets, NO It's A Fact tickets.
4. Include a brief explanation to clarify how your book(s) fit the task if it is not obvious.
5. Task creators should update posts 2 and/or 3 in their Help Threads with approved books, but the responsibility for that pre-approval information lies with the poster. The moderators will not search the help threads to look for pre-approvals. If you had a book pre-approved, including a link to the Help Thread approval may help keep you out of the Questions/Problems thread.
6. A newly completed tasks must be listed clearly and separately - do not include it in a list with previously completed tasks or partially completed tasks.
(If you want to include this extra information, list the newly completed task separately at the TOP of your post, and indicate clearly that it is the new one.)
7. If your book has the genre "childrens" or "kids" on its main page, it must meet the criteria specified in the Rules of the Challenge. All AR Bookfinder information MUST be posted when the book is claimed for points or no points will be awarded (You can copy the AR BookFinder ratings)
ex. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 17.0
Books that have an IL designation of MG+, UG, or UY (in the UK) may be used with no restrictions (other than general SRC and specific task requirements) . However, you must state the IL designation when you post the book.
If a book has "childrens" or "kids" listed as a main page genre and has been ok'd in the Not Really for Kids thread, you must include the post number or google document line approval when you post in Completed Tasks.
8. If you want to claim a Golden Oldies, Big Books ticket, or It's A Fact ticket you must specifically say so in your post - merely including a tally at the beginning or end of your post is not sufficient. Make sure to note "Golden Oldies," or "GO" or "Big Books ticket" or "BB ticket", or "It's A Fact or "NF ticket" in your post. The BB, GO, NF claim must be made with the specific book posting - a list at the end or beginning of the post is not sufficient.
If you are claiming a GO ticket, you must include the year in which the book was first published in your post along with the book posting for the task.
If you are claiming a BB ticket, you must include the number of pages in the book. Be sure that the link you provide goes to the edition you actually read, with the correct number of pages. If you used an ebook or an audiobook, include a link to the paper edition used to establish length.
9. If you choose to read a book contained in an "omnibus" edition, or a play in a collection (see Rule 11 in the Rules of the Challenge), you must identify this in your post.
If you do choose to read an element isolated from an aggregate work, you MUST include a link to the book that you read AND provide a link to a separately published work that relates to the isolated title.
10. If your book is an ebook with no print version, you must have it approved for length before posting in the ebook page verification thread: Ebook page verification in General Help.
Your post must include the line number of the approval in the ebook spreadsheet or a link to the post in which the ebook was approved for length.
11. If the task requires that a particular genre be found on the book's main page, check that the genre is there at the time you post. If it is, nothing more is required. If it is not, but you had the genre pre-noted in the help thread or the genre verification thread, include a link to the approval post in your completed task posting.
12. Only one task may be included in a post.
13. While it is OK to shift books between tasks during a challenge, this is the procedure required:
First, identify and "unclaim" any tasks involved in your book changes with a separate post for each task involved. Include the task number, the options used, and a link to each book originally claimed.
(Remember to copy a post, click "edit" at the bottom of the post, and copy from that screen to copy the html)
Next, do a new post, claiming any task involved in the changes. This must be a complete task posting, with all information required by the task, the options chosen, and the books claimed. No different from an original post.
14. If a task contains multiple options, your post must specify the options that you are using.
15. NEVER delete a post from the Completed Tasks thread.
(You can edit the post to replace all the text with �***DELETED***� but leave the post in the thread so the other post numbers do not shift.)
16. Include an up to date total of points in your post. (For purposes of Moderators' Pet, math errors will be forgiven! However, not checking your total on the Readerboard and adjusting it accordingly will not be! ) You may also include a ticker if you choose to use one, but that will not be sufficient - your total must be stated separately, in numbers!
Requirements for Reposts
1. All posts are validated by the Moderators.
Any questions or problems with a Completed Task will be posted in the "Completed Tasks Posts with ?s / Problems" thread and need to be addressed.
No points will be awarded until the issues are resolved and none of the data for the problem task will be recorded by the moderators.
2. Reposts must include Readerboard name at the top, Task #, Task Title (or short Description), AND a link to the book.
3. Reposts must include all task requirements including previously posted requirements as well as the missing requirements.
4. Include Task # and book link in reposts to claim Golden Oldies, Big Book or It's A Fact tickets omitted in original posts. Indicate at the top of your post that this is a repost to claim a GO, BB or NF ticket, so that it is clear that this is not a new task posting.