Ms.N - you've been amazing on this thread and thank you for starting it. I sent a little gift your way.


Testing: No, I did not have time to go through the test and get everyone set up in that regard, mainly because I couldn't afford to wait for people to return them to me and then score them as Ms.N guessed in an earlier comment.

The people who were chosen out of the volunteers are people I'm familiar with when it comes to their review skills and the comments they leave on the forum. I also know who was an editor and who wasn't in the previous rounds.

(There's not much going on around here that I don't know about.)

I haven't decided how I'm going to deal with the next round of editors, I'm sure it will be very similar as to how Sammi did it. less

Soooooooo GUESS WHAT I CAN DO?!


Hehehe

Some light bulbs start out dim...okay, anyway enough (I'm very playful today for some reason), I wasn't sure if I published reviews from the admin if they would automatically remove them from the task market but lo and behold IT DOES. I'll try to get as many as I can done today.

If it's not up to snuff, it's not going to be published and is most likely plagiarized or point farming (just thought I'd share my attack plan). less

I am a new editor brought in to help with the backlog. While I have read all the links provided to us editors in our dashboard, I still have a question. Maybe it was answered in one of those links and I just didn't understand it clearly.

Yesterday being my first day I ran into a few reviews that had maybe two or three sentences in each of the mandatory categories in the extended review template. Some even had two or three sentences in the optional categories. While these sentences were somewhat relevant to the product I was still unsure about what to do with them. Since I am new, I released them back into the task market, figuring an older editor would come along and know how to handle them.

Should I have of went ahead and published these reviews or should I have sent them back with a note stating more information needed to be provided or something.? Or should I push it to an administrator to look over? less

An editor's job is to check for plagiarism, edit what is there, make sure that the product written about is the product that is supposed to be reviewed, that sort of thing. If the review is low quality, that is going to be decided by the votes it gets, not by the editors.

That's why people need to join the mentor program - so they will know what to write in their reviews to make them useful to others.

So in answer to the question, edit, then publish. If you are uncomfortable with a particular review, you can always release it for someone else to edit. less

Thank you for the response!

I'm sure that some of these were from review amnesty week and people just wanted to get their points in, but I don't see why you can't take the time to write a more informational review. I know I wrote a lot during that week because I was behind and it was great motivation, but I still made sure my reviews were exactly what I would have written if I had written them any other time. less