A doubt regarding the deadline for Quick Tales. Is it the midnight of 6th Sep (Saturday) or 7th Sep (Sunday). While the contest info page on livejournal.com advises us not to wait till 11.45pm on 6th Sep (meaning deadline is 11:59pm on 6th), the email alert from Caferati says don't wait till 11pm on 7th (which means there's still more than a day left and I can post another story). Clarify this. Quick.
Re: DeadlinezigzacklySeptember 6 2008, 15:56:55 UTC
sunwrites,
The deadline is the 7th, as it says on Caferati, and, as far as I can tell, in every mention on LJ. We may have slipped up somewhere though, so please tell us, where are you seeing the 6th September deadline? Please leave the URL here?
Re: DeadlinesunwritesSeptember 6 2008, 17:14:41 UTC
Hi,
I'm glad the deadline is midnight 7th Sep. Still, the portion that led to this confusion in my mind (I hope I'm the only one who's misunderstood it) is the following one under "All About The Contest" section on the page: http://livejournal.caferati.com/contests/quick-tales-contest/
*** Deadline You must submit your entry before midnight IST, 7th September 2008.
A little word of advice: please don’t wait until 11.45 p.m. on the 6th to submit your entry. Chances are that many others may have dragged their feet, and while our system is, we think, robust, any server can be overloaded. ***
In my humble opinion, the advice should have said "...wait until 11.45 p.m. on the 7th to submit your entry." As 11.45pm on 6th is 1 hr from now, the impression I got was that the server would stop taking entries after 11:59pm tonight i.e. on 6th. Anyways, the issue is resolved now. Thanks for the Quick response.
Contest Deadline and Server DownvikramkarveSeptember 6 2008, 16:37:51 UTC
Please clarify exactly when the contest closes - 2359 hrs on 06 Sep 2008 or 2359 hrs on 07 Sep 2008. I am trying to submit my entry since 1800 hrs today 06 Sep 2008 but your server is down for maintenance [that's what the massage says]. Please get your server working quickly so we can submit our entries on time.
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A doubt regarding the deadline for Quick Tales. Is it the midnight of 6th Sep (Saturday) or 7th Sep (Sunday). While the contest info page on livejournal.com advises us not to wait till 11.45pm on 6th Sep (meaning deadline is 11:59pm on 6th), the email alert from Caferati says don't wait till 11pm on 7th (which means there's still more than a day left and I can post another story).
Clarify this. Quick.
Sunwrites
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The deadline is the 7th, as it says on Caferati, and, as far as I can tell, in every mention on LJ. We may have slipped up somewhere though, so please tell us, where are you seeing the 6th September deadline? Please leave the URL here?
Thanks
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I'm glad the deadline is midnight 7th Sep. Still, the portion that led to this confusion in my mind (I hope I'm the only one who's misunderstood it) is the following one under "All About The Contest" section on the page: http://livejournal.caferati.com/contests/quick-tales-contest/
***
Deadline
You must submit your entry before midnight IST, 7th September 2008.
A little word of advice: please don’t wait until 11.45 p.m. on the 6th to submit your entry. Chances are that many others may have dragged their feet, and while our system is, we think, robust, any server can be overloaded.
***
In my humble opinion, the advice should have said "...wait until 11.45 p.m. on the 7th to submit your entry." As 11.45pm on 6th is 1 hr from now, the impression I got was that the server would stop taking entries after 11:59pm tonight i.e. on 6th. Anyways, the issue is resolved now. Thanks for the Quick response.
Sunwrites
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Thank you, and yes, you're right. Thank you for pointing it out.
Good luck with your entr[y/ies]!
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I am trying to submit my entry since 1800 hrs today 06 Sep 2008 but your server is down for maintenance [that's what the massage says].
Please get your server working quickly so we can submit our entries on time.
Please reply quickly.
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