I have to agree with Laura and Carol: Series has been tough for me to replace in my nominations.
But I understand the reasoning: with 13 eligible series this year (counting Bethy's, which wasn't available when I originally counted) and a much smaller number of stories overall, some categories had to go.
It's not that I have difficulty remembering the categories and so working out where the series stories should go. The problem is that some stories just belong together. I simply can't pick out which of, say, Laura's Snow series I want to nominate in WAFFy, and if I nominate all four separately that takes up a
lot of my slots. One series (Kae's and mine, as it happens, but I'm just using it as an example) has six stories, thus taking up even more. The total KB size is over 60, thus making it as a unit too long for the short story categories, even though the individual stories are between 8kb and 18kb. If this was someone else's series and I were nominating it, I'd have problems figuring out where to put it.
ML's Without A Superman series is also, to me, a unit; I can't pick out one to nominate above the others, and so where I'm nominating those stories they will be
as a series. At least with the size restrictions gone from the long-story categories that's less of a problem.
Anyway, I'm assuming that you guys are ready to handle this when the noms come in, and I suppose it's really only with the short story series that the problem exists.
Wendy
(back to struggling with her noms).