Editors - Update on Task Market...

I know you have, dear! Believe me, I know who is doing what

YOU are fabulous! Thank you!

Thanks, Airen. I just saw this post...


Considering the situation at hand, 149 tasks in the market with a backlog spanning six days is not that bad. And editors have always been free to pick their tasks. Some just like the layout of the extended better as they tend to be easier to proof read.

Right, we have two weeks to get things published.

Call out may have been a poor choice of words, but still, it is not right to leave people hanging in order to grab more points. When I see people grab three reviews from the current day when there are over 100 reviews that have been posted ahead of them, I have to say something is wrong.

That would most likely be my fault - I pushed about forty reviews out yesterday afternoon.

If we want reviews featured for a few days, the community page is going to have to be changed, or the points value for reviews is going to have to drop again. Currently, the format shows 60 reviews. If there are 20-30 reviews posted each day, that would be two to three days' worth of reviews. If those stay visible for three days (a few), there will be 60-90 reviews waiting to be featured.

Yes, we have two weeks, but is it right for some reviewers to have to wait two weeks to be published while others have their reviews posted within the hour, not because they are any better, but because they chose a format that earns the editor more points?

I am just asking for a bit of courtesy on the behalf of the reviewers.

I'm uncomfortable with this too, especially the threatening tone and having one EF contributor "keeping track" of other equal peers.I think this type of thing should be left to admin (Stormy), or someone assigned the job by admin.

Not meaning any offense, Ms. N, I know you're just trying to solve the problem.

I have had other editors complaining to me about the situation, and I have spoken to Stormy about this issue several times in the past few days. I fully apologize if anyone saw this as threatening (which is funny, as I am about the least threatening person in the world). It was only meant to call attention to the problem. Again, I am sorry to anyone offended, and ImaGodiva, I apologize to you personally.

Sometimes complaining is just that - complaining.

Yes, we have talked about it. I cannot up the limit of reviews per person per day as it is a programming change and altering the points system is a no-go as well. So, here we are.

I appreciate the apology, thank you, although it is somewhat unnecessary as I was not feeling personally threatened. But saying you're keeping track of what people are doing and will publicly call them out is a threat, and there are editors, I'm sure, who haven't even read this thread and have had no official direction to take the oldest reviews first, who would be shocked to be the focus of an "outing" campaign.

Saying "Hey friends, let's take the oldest reviews because it makes sense" and leaving it at that is not threatening.

Saying "Do this, and there will be repercussions if you don't, and I'm keeping track of what you're all doing" could be seen as threatening, IMHO, and is out of line even from a respected non-threatening-type of peer, with the best of intentions, going the extra mile to try to solve a legitimate problem.

I, too, felt very uncomfortable reading this post. The tone of it did not sit right with me at all. First of all, it's being said that you're going to call out people. Which... I don't think is really your place. I mean, if you were an admin, or head of the editing program, then fine. And, maybe you are. But I was under the impression that you were, like the rest of us, another contributor. Secondly, saying that you are "keeping an eye" on the other editors... well, I'll be honest, that just sounds a little creepy.

On top of that, it seems like you are implying that some editors are simply point farmers. Which also does not seem like it's your place to say. As Stormy herself said, sometimes people take the extended review ones because they're easier to edit. I will admit that I prefer the extended format when I edit, as I can do it in pieces with ease. Edit a little here, save that section, walk away for awhile, come back and do a little more... that sort of thing. That's not to say that I wait around for an extended format review to appear in the task market, or that I will not edit a standard format review.

I know that you didn't mean it to seem that way, Ms. N. However, it seems like a post of this sort would've been better posted by Stormy, if she thought it were an issue. As Stormy has posted here that, yes, we have two weeks to get reviews published... AND that editors have always been able to choose which reviews they edit... well, it does not seem that there is really an issue.

(whoops, this post wasn't directed at ImaGodiva -- other than to say that I was in agreement.)

I would send it back to the writer.

That's what I've done for now, but until they come back.. I'm stuck on that review, which means I can't knock out 2 more of the backlog.

MrWill, I just sent you a message about this.

Those of us that were recently added, were ONLY added because things got so backed up, I would think that since we have the privilege of editing, that we would be focusing on getting the oldest reviews taken care of first. Granted, things aren't terribly far behind, but that's not the point.

I agree with that. And - this is not aimed at any individual - I think the newly added editors are the ones who should be concentrating on the backlog since that's the reason they/you were brought in. I know most are, I'm just saying.

The rest of us should be able to edit whatever we choose while hopefully not ignoring the backlog. After all, not only we were still doing our 3 edits per day during Amnesty Week when the reviews were just starting to pile up, but some of us have edited every single day (subject to 'real life' getting in the way) rather than applying for the rotation then not doing anything. I've been taking... well never mind, that should be MY business. I've been doing 3 edits per day and would do more besides those if I could, even for free to help with the older ones.

I totally agree and I hope that resonated through what I was saying.