User blog comment:CyberTheNerd/SOG Staff Meeting 11/@comment-17737991-20150130155612

Needs work - TOO COMPLICATED TO SUPPORT OR NOT >_<

The Needs Work issue is that the majority of those stories were put there by either Ethan spamming the category everywhere, without explaining why, or by regular users... who are no longer allowed to do that, and they also usually didn't give reasons as to why it "Needs work". And, even when Ethan did give reasons for adding Needs work, he rarely, if ever, followed up with deletion categories after its alloted time period, nor would he remove "Needs work" after someone fixed up the story.

Just throwing the category around doesn't initiate the deletion process unless it was added by a chat mod or admin, and the reasons for why it Needs work are included. Since the majority of these pastas were added to the "Needs work" category improperly and with no reasons for why given, they all need to be reviewed individually to see which ones actually need work, and which ones are good enough and just had that category slapped on them for no reason. Or, which ones were fixed and no one ever bothered to take it out of Needs work.

Bottom line, a /lot/ of the stories in that category don't actually deserve deletion and are just victims of people spamming "Needs work" everywhere.

I've been meaning to get around to reading and judging every Needs work story, but I haven't yet. I suppose I should get started <.<

And yes, as a chat mod, you can help. The process is this:

Add Needs work and explain WHY it needs work in a comment. You also MUST explain what the consequences of "Needs work" are, basically, let them know this category will result in deletion and tell them how much time is left to fix it. After a week, if it hasn't been fixed up enough, add it to "48 hours to deletion". After 48 hours (give or take) if it's still not fixed, add it to "Marked for deletion" and an admin will delete it. If it's fixed at any point, remove the deletion categories. If the author is willing to work on it, you can extend their time limit if you want. For really, really bad pastas though, you can skip "Needs work" and immediately add it to "48 hours to deletion".

As for pastas that have been in "Needs work" for months... I figured since most of them never received proper warnings, they should at the very least be given 48 hours to get fixed up once they're properly reviewed by a staff member. This is only if the pasta actually Needs work though. If you come across one that doesn't, then remove the deletion categories and preferably explain why you removed them in the edit history. Of course, only Needs work pastas that were improperly added to that category may be reviewed or saved. Stories that already have a "case mod/admin" who are doing it properly, that case mod/admin will handle it.

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Wow .-. That length could rival my feminism rants.

Anyway <.<

Adding Flaky's Extension -  I think it's a bit pointless actually, as I believe the chat rules already explain that quite clearly. But eh, it can't harm anything to clarify them further.

Let all users participate - If they care enough about this site to read these and comment, they deserve to be allowed to leave input.