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| benj clews |
Posted - 25/02/2007 : 22:44:05
Okay, let's get the hardest sell announcement out the way first...
There is presently a near record backlog on fwfr. The MERPs, gawd bless 'em, are working hard to keep up, but it's simply not enough and, for reasons I'm unwilling to go into, new MERP candidates are not being considered at this time.
The upshot of all this is, we need to cut down the number of submissions in order to get on top of the backlog. After much tossing and turning over the issue, and as much as I hate to have to do this, from midnight tonight I'm employing a cap on the number of fwfrs that may be submitted each week.
I've looked at the average number of reviews submitted and whilst quite a few happily submit less than 20, there are some submitting a great deal more than this. Whilst this is an extreme and not typical example, one reviewer submitted in excess of 600 reviews last week.
And so, for the time being, the cap is being set to no more than 20 reviews per week. I hope this will give the MERPs the breathing room they need to reduce the waiting time on reviews and even the exposure odds for less prolific reviewers, whilst not crippling the creative flow too much.
The cap will take effect from midnight tonight and will last as long as the MERPs require to bring the backlog down to the kind of wait that doesn't cause complaints about wait times and lengthy pending lists in the fourum. All currently pending reviews will remain in the queue to be reviewed by the MERPs and will not be subject to the cap unless resubmitted for whatever reason. The 20 review allowance will last Monday 00:00 to Sunday 23:59, resetting when the GMT clock clicks over to Monday 00:00 again. Slots not used in the previous week do not carry over to the following week- this is not a mobile phone network. Once the 20 review limit is hit, reviews will automatically decline with a reason of 'Limit exceeded'.
The only exception will be new films. Since these do not add to the MERPs' burden (only mine) and these tend to be far less quickly submitted, I'm choosing to keep working the full workload for these. Please note however, if I find established reviewers exploiting this by submitting reviews against films already in the database, I will consider closing this loophole.
I'm truly sorry it has come to this. I've always wanted this to be a corner of the Interweb unaffected by flashing pop-up adverts, subscription fees, or limits to creative freedom. I now feel I have failed on the latter.
It is my and every MERP's hope this cap can be removed (or at the very least reduced) at the soonest time possible but for now it's a necessary evil.
Bring on the abuse...  |
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| SixFourian |
Posted - 02/08/2010 : 10:44:32
Benj, I have just deleted a pending review that I realised was a duplicate and it has confirmed a problem I've noticed and mentioned before. After deleting the review (which I submitted today), I tried to submit a separate one. However, it rejected it as over quota even though I have now only submitted 29 this week (1 approved, 28 pending). Please can this glitch be fixed and my quota slot be returned? |
| SixFourian |
Posted - 14/06/2009 : 19:14:18
In case anyone wants to see how they are doing relative to the maximum, I have created some stats (under Reviews and beginning with Post-cap reviews) here.
I've also started compiling one of my tables. |
| SixFourian |
Posted - 14/06/2009 : 06:07:08
Having nothing better to do, I wondered who else had had more than 20 reviews per week approved since the cap:
CankleFetish 3,410 (1,010 over 20/week)
BaftaBabe 2,612 (212 over 20/week)
randall 2,539 (139 over 20/week)
Did they have a lot pending or is it indeed a glitch? (After the web-hosting trauma, was there any point where the cap was totally suspended?) |
| SixFourian |
Posted - 14/06/2009 : 03:39:13
O.K., here's a weird one. I'm always intrigued by calmer, since (s)he is the closest to having added as many films as me and so I see him/her on the New Films page all the time, and am often interested by his/her choices of additions. Anyway, I idly clicked on his/her link just now. Take a look at his/her numbers of films per year. Of the reviews approved in 2007 and 2008, at least 1,456 must have been submitted on or before 25th February 2007. (This is assuming that (s)he submitted 20 every week from then on and they were all approved on first submission by the end of 2008, as were the 1,456.) This stretches credulity for me. Is there definitely no glitch here, Benj?
Edit: I had always assumed that those stats applied to approval dates but looking at both calmer's and my reviews that cannot be the case, so it must be submission dates, which in fact makes the situation even more extreme. Since 26th February 2007, we should each have submitted a maximum of 2,400 reviews. In that period, calmer has had 3,454 approved. This means that at least 1,054 must have been pending at the end of 25th February 2007 (and even that is assuming that calmer has subsequently had 20 submissions from every week approved on the first go, which is obviously not the case, e.g. this week).
This is nothing against calmer. Indeed, good for him/her if (s)he has managed to get more through somehow, and I'd prefer it to happen to him/her than many people here. I just find it perplexing. |
| MguyX |
Posted - 19/04/2008 : 16:53:30
quote:
Originally posted by Whippersnapper
quote:
Originally posted by Salopian
I have to agree with Whippersnapper that there should just me more MERPs.
Could we also assume the above line is a freudian slip?
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| BaftaBaby |
Posted - 19/04/2008 : 15:02:21
quote:
Originally posted by benj clews
Looks to have been a bug introduced by the new feedback functionality. Fixed now.
Drat!
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| benj clews |
Posted - 19/04/2008 : 14:51:11
quote:
Originally posted by Salopian
O.K., something has definitely changed. I have got over twenty reviews pending from Monday onwards, and that's on top of approvals, rejections and my submissions on Sunday that did not count towards last week's cap.
Has the cap gone?
Looks to have been a bug introduced by the new feedback functionality. Fixed now. |
| SixFourian |
Posted - 19/04/2008 : 13:55:44
quote:
Originally posted by Salopian
quote:
Originally posted by benj clews
The 20 review allowance will last Monday 00:00 to Sunday 23:59, resetting when the GMT clock clicks over to Monday 00:00 again.
Has this changed? I had reached the cap this week but it is letting me submit reviews again.
O.K., something has definitely changed. I have got over twenty reviews pending from Monday onwards, and that's on top of approvals, rejections and my submissions on Sunday that did not count towards last week's cap.
Has the cap gone? |
| SixFourian |
Posted - 14/04/2008 : 17:58:25
LOL, perhaps we can! |
| Whippersnapper. |
Posted - 14/04/2008 : 00:25:36
quote:
Originally posted by Salopian
I have to agree with Whippersnapper that there should just me more MERPs.
Could we also assume the above line is a freudian slip?
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| benj clews |
Posted - 13/04/2008 : 23:56:10
quote:
Originally posted by Salopian
quote:
Originally posted by benj clews
For my money, someone who consistently adds to their reviews then removes their lesser reviews to up the standard would probably be the best kind of editor, rather than someone necessarily having thousands of reviews.
So, basically, if I were considering more MERPs, I'd be looking for anyone with a sum total of one review of exceptional quality
I'd forgotten that you had specified the basis on which you would take more MERPs. All non-MERPs can now thus assume that they are not quality reviewers...
And all non-MERPs can also assume Salopian will happily drop the winking smiley when quoting from their post if it backs up his own agenda more effectively. |
| SixFourian |
Posted - 13/04/2008 : 19:31:25
quote:
Originally posted by benj clews
For my money, someone who consistently adds to their reviews then removes their lesser reviews to up the standard would probably be the best kind of editor, rather than someone necessarily having thousands of reviews.
So, basically, if I were considering more MERPs, I'd be looking for anyone with a sum total of one review of exceptional quality
I'd forgotten that you had specified the basis on which you would take more MERPs. All non-MERPs can now thus assume that they are not quality reviewers... |
| SixFourian |
Posted - 13/04/2008 : 19:29:02
quote:
Originally posted by benj clews
The 20 review allowance will last Monday 00:00 to Sunday 23:59, resetting when the GMT clock clicks over to Monday 00:00 again.
Has this changed? I had reached the cap this week but it is letting me submit reviews again. |
| TitanPa |
Posted - 14/01/2008 : 05:57:55
quote:
Originally posted by benj clews
quote:
Originally posted by Salopian
In answer to Tori, the requirement was only 500 reviews (though this was a rather bizarre choice since Benj himself did not have this number).
I have 500 through choice. I could write hundreds more, but I have other projects going on and don't believe I would write great quantities of the kind of reviews I'd like to.
For my money, someone who consistently adds to their reviews then removes their lesser reviews to up the standard would probably be the best kind of editor, rather than someone necessarily having thousands of reviews.
So, basically, if I were considering more MERPs, I'd be looking for anyone with a sum total of one review of exceptional quality
That would give Smithee a hell of an edge  |
| benj clews |
Posted - 08/01/2008 : 22:35:30
quote:
Originally posted by Yukon
Hey Benj, can you give us folks some insight behind the scenes at FWFR?
Some questions:
� I've always wondered what the record backlog for reviews is: 2,000? 5,000? 10,000?
I think we've been up to 7000, but that was before the MERPs were introduced.
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� How many reviews did you knock off on the recent wave of approvals that saw many people's pending piles drop to 0?
We got through a couple of thousand. We're still working on it, but the harder we push, the quicker the resubs come back so the progress has slowed a bit now.
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What's the pending pile at now?
Enough to keep all the MERPs busy for a while yet 
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� On an average day, how many submissions do you get?
It varies, well over 100, sometimes into the 200s. |
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