On a Report Retiring Spree
Tuesday, January 20, 2015 10:27 PM
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So...I've gone through all the open breeding reports tonight, and one of the thing that I'm seeing as a report reviewer is that there is TONS of outstanding reports...but most of them are shaded "pink". As a reviewer, "PINK" means "ignore". It means that a report has been flagged with a request for an update or change from the report author. Our "to do list" as such, looks huge, and daunting, but it's actually overwhelmingly PINK! As a reviewer, we're given the power to "retire" reports that are more than 6 months old from the original date of submission. I'm taking the initiative to go through the "pink list" this evening, and by and large I am retiring these reports, as MOST have been PINK since 2013! As a reviewer, we work really hard to go through the data that's submitted, so please, to all my fellow MBI participants, do us the courtesy of being careful when you first submit your report, but also following up and seeing a report through to completion. All members who work as reviewers are volunteers with thankless jobs....the least you can do is show your appreciation for our efforts by committing to seeing YOUR hard work approved and added to the MBI database. It's sad for me to be throwing away half-completed reports on things like rare Stenopus species or Dragonets simply because the MBI participant failed, in 1.5 years, to provide necessary corrections or information. The reporter loses the credit and points, the reviewer wastes his/her time, and the MBI's database is a little less robust. If you are the owner of any of these PINK reports that somehow don't get retired tonight, it's either because your report was too new, or I've seen hope yet for you to correct it. I've even "unlocked" a handful of these flagged reports to encourage OTHER reviewers, who have been ignoring them, to take another look. If you got deleted? Well...I'm sick of looking at all that PINK on my "report reviewer to-do" list!
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