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This has been submitted to support as well, but making sure people know what is going on.
For the attention of @Elena Stofle and @Thad Woodman .

With the launch of The List 2016 there has been  a problem with the Launch Pad Competition. Some nominees for The List are entrants in The Launch Pad competition, which is ongoing. Unfortunately, when the page for The List 2016 was posted, it seems any books which were also competing in  The Launch Pad competition were removed from that competition and added to The List. This is not correct, so until it is fixed, the Launch Pad leaderboard is reporting false information.
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    The Tuatha Dé, House of Starlight

    The Tuatha Dé, House of Starlight, are the preeminent race in the dominions of the antediluvian world. Commonly the Tuath Dé are referred to as the Fair Folk, Fairies, or Wingers. They hail from the Fomorian Valley of the realm of Tir na nÓg. The seat of their power resides in the capital city of Formene, otherwise known as the Eternal City. They are ruled by the High King Dagda Starlight, the first druid, who sits upon the Starlit Throne of the Summer Court, to which all races in the realm of Tír na nÓg pay tribute.

    The Fair Folk are ageless, immune to most disease, and adept in the arcane arts. Though ageless the Tuatha Dé can be killed and it is said that only weapons that have been twisted by the dark fire can lay a mortal blow against them. They are a prideful, high-born race of people who see themselves as transcendent when compared to the other folk throughout the dominions, especially when it comes to the banal folk/exiled tribes of mankind. 

    The Fair Folk were born of pure starlight to illuminate the darkness of the First Age. The Sigil of the House of Starlight is a three-pointed star, known to some as the triskele or triquetra which symbolizes the three aspects of the Great Goddess. 

    As always if you have questions, please reach out. I adore engaging with my readers!

    Cheers!

    Christopher Lee


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      Jane-Holly Meissner liked the forum thread, Problems with the Comment system
      I too have had this issue. I’m not sure how complicated it would be, but it would be nice if you could get all the comments for an excerpt by clicking on the highlighted region. Definitely something the team should look into, props to Robert Batten for bringing it up.
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        Jane-Holly Meissner liked the forum thread, Ask Questions about The List 2016 here
        To add to what @Tony Valdez has already mentioned, the Quill campaigns in the contest are not set to back to funding yet, and do not have their List 2016 badges like the draft campaigns. I am hesitant to start asking for orders until I know the project is set to active. Any idea @Thad Woodman when we’ll see this change?
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          Hi gang. I’m sure this will probably be sorted out tomorrow once we’re all officially added to the contest, but just in case: Some of us that had previously reached Quill funding have noted that, while we are listed on the contest page already, our rankings seem to be based on our unique reader counts earned during our previous funding campaigns only. For example, I’m showing at 193 readers, although I’ve gained approximately 100 more since funding ended. Just wanted to give the heads up here. :)
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            Jane-Holly Meissner liked the forum thread, Problems with the Comment system
            I’m hoping @Elena Stofle and @Thad Woodman will have a look at this :)

            The current comment system is a great feature, but it falls over on excerpts with too many comments. Specifically, if there are too many comments too close to each other, the comments seem to get drawn over the top of each other -- hiding the ones underneath. I’ve checked the page source code and the comments are there, just not being displayed.

            This is actually a really problem -- I have a couple excerpts in this situation, and I’ve had people tell me they have stopped providing feedback in frustration, as they can’t  see their comments after posting them. It is a problem for the author too, as the email notification sent out when a comment is added doesn’t provide the context for the comment (doesn’t show what they were commenting on) -- the only way to see that is to follow the link to the excerpt, but then that doesn’t work because the comment is hidden under the pile.

            Possible  Solution
            One possible solution to this is something which I believe could be implemented relatively painlessly through some updates to the Javascript and CSS (for those not in IT just ignore the technobabble)...

            Currently, all comments are displayed in full, and take up a lot of spaces, which is part of the reason for this problem. Instead, I would suggest when the pages loads comments are displayed as only an icon / bubble in the margin, identifying the author (and maybe the date of the comment. Hovering the mouse over the icon could display the comment in the tool-tip, and clicking on it could toggle the comment into full display, including the ability to reply to the comment etc. This would enable many comments to stack in the margin and still be accessible.

            Other user interactions which would make this experience nicer would be: hovering over highlighted text could emphasize the comments linked to it (e.g. change their border colour). Hovering over comment bubbles could highlight the text commented on (e.g. change the highlight colour).
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