silverquill:The waymarks seem to be randomly placed - not by submission date, not grouped by category (which is the previous way). I guess I prefer having them grouped by category because that makes it easier to review similar waymarks together. There might be some rationale for grouping by date, but that seems not to be the case.
Frankly, this may just be an oversight on my part. I will take a look at this tomorrow and we'll make a decision about this. I suspect it won't be a big deal to fix this.
silverquill: Then, EVERY waymark is prefaced by either [new waymark] or [edited waymark] This is visually distracting and just clutter, making it more difficult to scan down the list of waymarks, because that tag is the first thing the eyes focus on and one has to scan over to see the title.
Options for that: Use a small icon to indicate status. And, tag ONLY edited waymarks, since there are fewer of them, and it would actually be easier to distingush them, maybe by the little yellow triangle or something.
I like this idea, and will see what I can come up with in the next week. It won't be difficult to change if this is what we decide to do. But we did think it was important to distinguish between the types of edits, and prioritized the new waymark approvals ahead of the edited waymarks.
silverquill: Reviewing "Edited Waymarks": This is, as I suspected, a royal pain! Instead of looking at the waymark as a whole, I know have to click on every item that has been changed, then find the box to approve the entire waymark again!!
There also seem to be some anomalies, such as a tag that says "Nothing Changed" but yet it has to be approved as if there is a change.
We have discovered a few anomalies and are working to fix those. And while I can sympathize with your increased workload, I think it does need to be noted that you are not a normal waymarker. You are an absolute superstar reviewer and have by far the most categories to manage of anyone. So it might be a teeny bit unfair of you to suggest that the entire situation is messed up because of how these new changes affect your unique situation. That being said, I think it is very important for us to take your situation into consideration...we will try in the next few weeks to come up with some solutions to make your life easier. Sorry to drop such an additional load on you.
silverquill: And, in my opinion, the identity of the person making the editing changes shouls be clear. Is this the original creator of the waymark? An officer of the category? Some random individual? Thes might have a bearing on how I evaulate these changes. The source of them is one factor,
I agree with this. We should have shown the identity of the editing party (I think we didn't realize that we were displaying the waymark owner's name, not the editor's name). We will fix this this coming week.
silverquill: The new format is cluttered and confusing! Why should there be field edit boxes for every item when creating a new waymark?? Shouldn't these show up only when editing a waymark that has already been submitted and approved?
If I am not mistaken, these edit boxes do not show up when you create a new waymark. Only for editing waymarks. We figured that in a vast majority of edit cases there would be one or two edits to make. We don't want people to completely rennovate waymarks, we want spelling, punctuation, factual and formatting errors to be corrected. If you are having to fill out too many of these edit fields at once, you may be doing too much.
silverquill: The horizontal rules are just clutter as far as I'm concerned and the appearnce is less clean for data entry.
Noted.
silverquill: Questions:
If I edit one of my own waymarks, does it get sent for review again? This appears not to be the case since I did try this. But, the "Reason for Changes" boxes still show up, when actually none is required, it seems, when editing one's own wayark.
No, you can edit your own waymark without a review.
silverquill: When reviewing waymarks, it is not uncommon for me to make minor edits for format, a simple typo, etc. If I do this now, will the waymark go back into the queue for another review, item by item? I guess I'll get my answer when I try, but if this is what happens . . . . well, no comment yet, so I'll leave that to your imagination at this point.
The answer is no.
silverquill: Just initially looking at the generic waymarking option - having to click through progessively deeper sub menus is a real pain! How does one know how deep a particular line will go? It may be two or three or four levels deep. And, what's on the next level? Can't tell without going there. Then there seems to be no way to go back up if one desides he's gone down the wrong branch of the tree.
You can still post waymarks exactly as you used to, by visiting the category first. We will look into better ways to drill down into the user categories for future updates. We are certainly open to your ideas about this as well.
silverquill: Anyway, I don't want to be to negative without more experience, but my first impression is NOT very positive . . . .
Fair enough. This was a big update with a lot of new ideas for the community to swallow. We will take all of your suggestions/complaints into account and will do our best to come up with solutions that will make you happy. Thank you for taking the time to write this all out for us.
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