Above the Line Agency

[VanceVanCleaf]

...has a form to submit. Ok, I filled it out 4 times and tried to send it and became that error note:

"The result storage capacity has been reached for this form. Your results were not saved. Please contact the form owner."

Does this mean "our storage for new project is full and we don't take new ideas" or is this a software error? Has anyone seen similar before?

Thx.

[thought_arcade]

It probably outputs to an SQL database that has been assigned a certain amount of physical space, or a certain # of numeric cells (but probably the physical space - i.e., when it was set up, it could have 300 fill in the form, before a user has to come in and purge some).

So, chances are they got tonnes of queries via the form and they havent gone through them all. It's a technical thing. But it also means they're so swamped (surprise, surprise) that they can't even sort through what they're getting.

Of course, if the form has no Captcha, it could also have been gunged up by spambots.

I hope that made sense. Haven't had coffee yet.

[VanceVanCleaf]

made perfect sense no prob. Hurry to grab some coffe now, will ya?!

In any case, no use querying there LOL surprise.

[thought_arcade]

Oh, I wouldn't say that there is no use querying! Just that the mechanism is overloaded right now.

By all means, keep trying! The jam-up can't last forever...!

[Dennisss]

At least they pretend to accept your submission, but the form is front-loaded with questions about what you've sold, your representation, and your film-school credentials. If the answers to these are not satisfactory, they probably read no further.

[VanceVanCleaf]

Well, I just submitted with the form, at least I could say "yes" in the field "college degree" and "professional writer" LOL. But there's a SERIOUS flaw, for all the people who query from outside the US: you have to indicate a state - there's no possibility to leave this blank.

Just to say it for the others.

[h.e.coleman]

Try again - I was able to submit, it was just full. I don't mind the forms because it lets you know exactly what they're looking for and most agencies have that "If you contact us for any reason we'll hunt you down and kill you" vibe. Out of 100 agencies you'll only find three that will accept a query, and later two of them will send back e-mails to say they've changed their policies and aren't accepting. I honestly think agents are lazy to ignore all the original scripts out there because they don't want to wade through the trash, like we do to find them.

[catcon]

Originally Posted by h.e.coleman

Try again - I was able to submit, it was just full. I don't mind the forms because it lets you know exactly what they're looking for and most agencies have that "If you contact us for any reason we'll hunt you down and kill you" vibe. Out of 100 agencies you'll only find three that will accept a query, and later two of them will send back e-mails to say they've changed their policies and aren't accepting. I honestly think agents are lazy to ignore all the original scripts out there because they don't want to wade through the trash, like we do to find them.

Your first post!? But spoken like someone experienced in the game!

By not having something in place (a bevy of readers?), these people never know what they're missing. And then when somebody does give somebody a chance, and is discovered to be unique, I wonder if there's a mass firing around the town -- especially once it's realized half the town "had their hands on the writer's material" and let it slip through, or worse yet didn't even bother to answer the queries.

[WordTrekker]

Keep trying. I got mine to work a couple months ago. Never heard back, though.