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Simple way to let writers know rough status of their trips
I've seen other posts, querying as to status of their trips, wondering if they'd been read. I can understand that. It's the not knowing that can be the worst of all. Rejection easy. Acceptance easy... Not knowing though, is the purgatory that lasts forever...
I was wondering if it might be possible to have a simple coding system- something like a red dot, yellow dot, and green dot next to the edit button on a trip (or somewhere else on the writers page) to let them know the status of their trip.
No dot means the trip hasn't been read. Red dot means Trazzler just isn't feeling the Trip. It's either got to go, or it needs some major revisions. Yellow dot means it has some potential, but it's just not quite up to par. Green dot means it's a good trip, but there is something minor holding it back.
You could go for a more complex system too, add another color or two, but I figured a system like this would be fairly easy for you, the editors, to deal with. Simple click of a button on a trip, and you don't have to go into a lot of detail. (All though chances are you might get a lot of questions as to why a trip was red lighted or yellow lighted, which would then loose you all the time you saved by employing this simple system... Also, since I'm not a programmer, I don't know how hard it actually would be to implement a system somewhere along these lines.)
Anyways, you guys are probably getting tire of hearing from me, but if it makes you feel any better, it's only because I care.
-Galen
I was wondering if it might be possible to have a simple coding system- something like a red dot, yellow dot, and green dot next to the edit button on a trip (or somewhere else on the writers page) to let them know the status of their trip.
No dot means the trip hasn't been read. Red dot means Trazzler just isn't feeling the Trip. It's either got to go, or it needs some major revisions. Yellow dot means it has some potential, but it's just not quite up to par. Green dot means it's a good trip, but there is something minor holding it back.
You could go for a more complex system too, add another color or two, but I figured a system like this would be fairly easy for you, the editors, to deal with. Simple click of a button on a trip, and you don't have to go into a lot of detail. (All though chances are you might get a lot of questions as to why a trip was red lighted or yellow lighted, which would then loose you all the time you saved by employing this simple system... Also, since I'm not a programmer, I don't know how hard it actually would be to implement a system somewhere along these lines.)
Anyways, you guys are probably getting tire of hearing from me, but if it makes you feel any better, it's only because I care.
-Galen
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Inappropriate?This is coming... we're about two weeks away from taking on this project. We agree that we should be communicating with you guys in this way. Sorry if it's been frustrating waiting on us.
It's not a huge development effort, but like any engineering... it's work.
Thanks for caring Galen, seriously.
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This is one of the best points
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There's a note "review pending" now - thanks. Is there a typical time from the time an article is submitted to when it's reviewed and posted? (with and without picture) Do writers get notified via e-mail when that happens? Thanks for everything you do! -
Thanks for the nice comment. Our timing has been inconsistent for a couple of reasons: we haven't had a very good technical system in place for managing the workflow, and we are extremely short staffed. The first part is slowly getting better... we're starting to get a real system in place. The situation regarding staffing (cross fingers) is looking up too... more on that hopefully very soon.
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Hi Oceannaire--
One other thing about the "review pending" note. We have a huge backlog of trips that need to be marked as read. In some cases, we're going to go back and take a second look at trips, too (we caught a few writers in our last batch of hires the second time around). So, it may take some time for our backlog of trips to accurately reflect the read vs. unread status. Going forward, it will be entirely accurate. -
Thanks, Adam & Megan. The reason I was asking about a typical timeline is because submission from a month ago is still marked as pending. Before I work on more trips, I'd like to have some feedback. Thanks.
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Out of curiosity I googled and it showed a couple of trips with "review pending" from early July but the others (with the same mark) didn't. Do you know why a couple showed up and a couple didn't? If a trip is not reviewed yet, I'd assume it's not "published" or searchable yet.
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Hi Oceannaire--
Thanks for checking back in. I've been meaning to come back here to update you on what we ended up implementing.
Going forward from July 17, we will be marking all of the submissions as "read" as we read them chronologically (or as contest entries). The trips prior to July 17 are going to be handled a bit differently. Those that were entered into contests are marked as "read," because these were all read more than once and tracked internally. We have decided to give all of the rest of the submissions another read, so we can check them off one by one. It's quite an undertaking, so it could take a while (in the meantime, we search all of the submissions when we have specific geographically oriented assignments, so we don't miss anyone).
Once a trip is published (these are the "Trazzler Trips" that appear with a trip number and go into the public Tripstream), the "reviewed by editor" button disappears--because all trips that are published have been read--multiple times. We don't publish anything that wasn't reviewed and vetted by our editors.
If you would like us to take a look at your trips and let you know what the status of them is, send us your Trazzler username.
To answer your question about Google: trips that are in line to get a photo don't get indexed by Google (we do this so the photographer has a chance to approve the photo usage without having the trip available to the general public). This could be why some of your trips didn't show up in Google...
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Megan -
Thanks for taking the time to write the detailed explanation! The last part about google, I wasn't actually expecting my trips to show up. I assumed that because they're still pending for review, they're not "published" and thus would not appear on the search. So evidently, if I understand correctly, it doesn't matter - anything that has picture will appear. Anyway, username is nathalia. Thanks!
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Inappropriate?Don't worry, it hasn't been too frustrating. It just means I don't have enough to do with my time these days.
I was pretty sure you had something coming, I wasn't too concerned. I had just been trying to think of something that would be simple for all of you, since I am sure you have nearly enough to do with your time. Going over all the trip submissions, editing them, dealing with help queries...
Anyways, I also want to give you guys kudos. I've been really enjoying the site and its concept. Good work, and thank you.
Galen
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