[Dixonary] FIDDLEY's UP!! Round 1626

[nancy shepherdson]

Hi Toni --

I'll have 4 and 5.

Just a note, too. It seems like your deadlines are awfully short -- 25
hours this time. I missed getting in a definition this time because of it.
Those of us who play through cory in digest mode sometimes wait many hours
to receive our daily or twice daily digest.

To all: Can we think about having longer deadlines, especially for
submitting definitions?

Nancy

[Daniel B. Widdis]

nancy shepherdson wrote:

> Those of us who play through cory in digest mode sometimes wait many hours
> to receive our daily or twice daily digest.
>
> To all: Can we think about having longer deadlines, especially for
> submitting definitions?

Sure, we can think about it. :)

While I'll obviously go with the consensus decision, I would prefer not
to change the current deadline guidance (24 to 36 hours). Most of us
access at least once daily, and there is very little return vs. cost for
extending deadlines longer than just over 24 hours.

Now that the chatter has died down to *mostsly* just playing the game, I
don't see why digest mode is necessary. It has several drawbacks
(including losing subject lines and threading information, not to
mention an added time delay).

Do the digests post at consistent times? Perhaps dealers could try to
time their deadlines to ensure an appropriate window after posting.
However, making it long enough to ensure the woid gets into a a daily
digest (possibly up to 23 hours and 59 minutes) plus an additional 24
hours to ensure a digest mode player reads the digest, would be 48-hour
deadlines. We could play 3 rounds with 30-hour deadlines in the time it
takes to play 2 rounds with 48-hour deadlines.

Dan