It's time for another janitor quiz. If you'd like to become a janitor (responsible for approving uploads), simply look through the archive linked below and message me with the ones you'd approve.
Updated by Elfenus
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It's time for another janitor quiz. If you'd like to become a janitor (responsible for approving uploads), simply look through the archive linked below and message me with the ones you'd approve.
Updated by Elfenus
Yeah, it's interesting to see what gets thrown into those tests, and then always get surprised how blatantly obvious they appear for most of the part. but then again I've never seen what kind of answers people submit for them.
Personally I haven't hopped on the janitor train mostly because it's appears to a whole lot of ungrateful and tenious work with little reward or glory, which wouldn't go that well together with me being a lazy bastard who just likes to look up stuff ocassionally through tag searches.
Umm, why do we need more janitors? There are 19 already, add 10 mods, 2 admins, and we have 31 people capable of approving pictures. Is there really a problem with there being not enough hands? Since what I've seen recently were complaints that too *much* gets approved, not too little.
Even if not more than 50% regularly moderate, that's still 15 people. And given that I alone am capable of reviewing *all* new uploads (I scan them for misratings and certain common mistags), I'd expect a team of 15 to be more than enough to approve all worthwile material. For this reason I object to any new promotions before there is shown to be a real lack of people.
Tl;dr: before we get new janitors, why do we need them?
Updated by 葉月
葉月 said: Tl;dr: before we get new janitors, why do we need them?
I can think of some people I'd trust (though I don't know if they're interested) but yeah I didn't feel that there was a lack of coverage in the queue. I see every post before it hits three days, especially with the friendlier new setup. I think a lot of other people do too. I don't think the problem is too many good posts getting unapproved, I think it's too many bad posts getting approved.
If albert gets responsible people signed up (or if Log is right about culling) then it's not really a problem, but is it "necessary"?
I was going to ask the same thing.
31 people is more than enough for that.
Also we have a lot of shit uploaded in the last few weeks, do we really need more of these being approved (and that's what is going to happen if we have more janitors)?
If the reason for this is what Log posted (AKA Janitors Ragnarok), then I'm more than okay with that.
Is a "janitor" all about approving things, then? I've been thinking lately...One thing I figure a janitor is at least able to do is use that mass-tagger thing to make desirable changes to large numbers of posts quickly (Not sure how it works exactly, but it's certainly an alluring title).
There are a lot of lesser known tags that could be applied more widely. Or tags that are misapplied. Or pictures that only have artist: char: copy: and nothing general. r all those translated pictures with translation_request. I've been thinking of starting a "tag triage" thread for a few weeks because, even though I know what epaulettes are, I'm only one person: I can't tag all of that even if I work at it constantly (would make it easier if the thumbnails were bigger, actually). In my mind, that's where I could see a couple janitors being handy: set them loose with "triage" missions like "take this week to remove all rating:q and e from rating:s!" or "There are thousands of pictures of fish without tags! Make that not so!" Things like that.
Oh, it also just came to mind that Albert's preparing for tests of his Pixiv spider, which has great potential for crazy huge floods of images even by our standards (too bad Pixiv (nor anyone, really, save for perhaps Wikipedia) doesn't embed XMP metadata, eh?).
DschingisKhan said:
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These are virtually all things anyone can do. Tag scripts are in the dropdown menu on the left, anyone can write a wiki entry, there's no point in appointing janitors to translate or change ratings or tag. If he wants to test the spider he will likely set up a devbooru and give the address to people on irc, telling them to test it en masse.
The only thing janitors can do is approve things from the queue. I believe nobody below mod even has access to the mass-edit tool.
Maybe some janitors are getting booted. There certainly is at least one janitor, maybe more, with terrible taste, as I keep seeing things get approved that I wouldn't have accepted in a million years. And I know for a fact I'm much more lenient than most of my co-mods.
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FeKa said:
do we really need more of these being approved (and that's what is going to happen if we have more janitors)?
Why do you assume that? Just because someone is new doesn't mean they're stupid, or have lower standards than the rest. As long as albert is careful in who he trusts with the position, all that should happen is more eyes being put on the queue.
Anyone who is given the position should be well aware that they aren't obligated to approve "something, anything" just because they can. If it's good approve it, if it's shit let it burn. Something will, eventually, come along that they get to push the 'okay' button for. No need to force it.
Granola said:
How about deleting duplicates? I find myself wanting to do that quite often.
I believe policy is to *not* delete duplicates unless they are watermarked, highly artefacted or otherwise obviously sub-par.
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