As you know, Cat's, the one hour rule was put in place to correspond more or less to the rules for the other challenges. But I thought of this problem myself when I was asked to do the postings, although in my mind the question was going to arise principally because of time zones.(**)
Someone in Australia sends me a PM while I am asleep and I disqualify it when he/she is asleep. But the question of one or other of us being at work is a reasonable one too.
So two points.
As the poster, it's seemed to me that I have a certain discression as to when I highlight the word count problem to the author, and so I will try to PM them when I think they won't be asleep, at which point I assume the hour counts from when I send the problem to them, not when they originally sent the entry. (Please take note of this Moderation, if and when I am auditted later
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Secondly; TDZ, as my friendly neighbourhood moderator, has kindly offered to help out with executive permissions if ever the need arises.
The one case of exceeding the wordcount that we have had so far during this challenge was actually solved by an exchange of PMs between me and the author in about ten minutes.
Specifying a firm editing period of a day may actually be more difficult to control than the hour's grace currently in place, but with a little good will and common sense all round I think your problem is not going to be an issue.
Then again, if other people think that a day's grace is more sensible, I certainly won't object. (Especially as by the time the rules are changed it will plobably be someone else's problem.
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(**) PS It was clear when I brought it up that Mosaix and TDZ (et al) had a solution already in mind.
