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| Over the past decade of online writing sites have adopted different methods to moderating the contributions of their writers. Triond once had human mods and there was a big row between them and the writers so moved to an A.I. which checked for plagiarism and volatile language. Factoidz had different levels of moderation. New writers had every keystroke read by a moderator. After five or ten submissions they were either rejected, because it was just too much work, or passed to the next level of a ‘glance’ over by a mod, and then, raised to the point where their work was published immediately. In this way, the Best Writers stayed, the worst left, and the Mod was not over worked. On a Third site, the Mod turned into an ‘editor’ who virtually rewrote the item, leading to the departure of the best writers. When human moderation is used it depends on how many mods there are contra how many items to moderate. On Wikinut, every item was moderated by, (in the old days of payment) a number of different Mods. The particular Mod had to put his name on the item as ‘moderated by…’ this made the mods a bit careful. During the time of payment, it was usually one hour, maybe two between post and pass. Now that the site no longer pays, most have left so I don’t know if there is still an unpaid mod wasting time or people are posting. The problem all have faced with LB is the Sloooooooow Moderation. A few weeks ago I posted 3 items on Sunday which waited until Thursday to be published. Twenty Four hours is ‘quick’ for this site. What happens is that topical matters, i.e. as I type the Russian Ambassador was just killed in Ankora, can not be part of a blog. If I write the facts now and submit, will the item appear tomorrow, or the day after? And who would be interested in stale breaking news? I think a new paradigm or set of paradigms should be enacted.
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| The items I posted yesterday have not been Moderated today. Perhaps tomorrow? |
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