@0xCCBA696: > 葉月 said: > It's not personal or a question of...

0xCCBA696
2009-11-29T08:32:28-05:00

葉月 said:
It's not personal or a question of "bad 0xCCBA696, no cookie for you", but simply the inevitable laws governing any group or organisation large enough.

Haha, yeah, I understand that completely.

But what I seem to be understanding from what you're saying is that it is more important that the tastes of those in charge of the mod queue are focused than it is that they are in accordance with any given standard (such as for example albert's taste, or whatever). I think rather the opposite - if someone is judged to be "trustworthy" in terms of their tastes (which was the whole point of the mod queue in the first place), then if their particular sphere of likes goes slightly outside the collective likes of the rest of the janitors, I doubt it will be into particularly questionable territory. Conversely, just because there are a small number of janitors (and consequently that the tastes of the janitors are focused) doesn't mean that those tastes may not be somewhat questionable.

Of course, those two goals are not mutually exclusive and are in fact rather in line with each other, but I think we should be clear about what the goals are here:

1) We should have a group of janitors such that good images are generally approved
2) We should have a group of a janitors such that shitty images are not approved

#1 can be accomplished either by increasing the number of eyes on the mod queue, or making sure that the eyes on the mod queue are on the mod queue significantly often. #2 can be accomplished only by weeding out those eyes which see good in things which are generally considered bad.

Of course, it's a bit harder work to weed out bad eyes when there are more eyes in total, but if albert has any stats on, say, unapproved posts and who originally approved them, that could certainly help the process along.

As pretty much everyone in this thread has said, that is the crux here - there need to be "aggregate views or reports". However, I don't think that "every additional person with approval rights makes it that much harder to hold anyone accountable". What it does do is make oversight and coordination more difficult, just due to the number of people involved, I guess.