Important to call it out. I mean, if we don't have more rigorous standards of information handling here, it hurts our mission overall.
I suspect that the OP stumbled upon the video, which was posted 13 hours ago, and simply assumed that it was current BECAUSE it was posted 13 hours ago, BUT failed to do any due diligence to check, reference, or vet that assumption.
The excitement triggered by thinking that Jordan "just brought up" "a great awakening" and directly relating that to The Great Awakening are understandable, but such excitement needs to be tempered and refined by applying Q-type approach to information: check, verify, research, use critical thinking, don't just follow emotional triggers.
That effort on ANY person who posts to check, verify, research, use critical thinking before posting would actually save our collective board many, if not dozens of man hours each and every day.
What I find disappointing is that while the OP made an understandable if regrettable mistake in labeling the post "just brought up", that someone on the mod team apparently stickied it without checking or vetting or applying a basic filter of verification.
Is there some protocol by which posts get vetted prior to sticky for such things as accuracy, bogusness, etc?
The OP's excitement may have over-ridden a more based application of discernment (checking, etc) but the mod should be a backstop to see that such mistakes aren't amplified.
Maybe the mod team doesn't really have that time - and I wouldn't criticize them if this is the case, but I still think the question is valid: is there a protocol or rubric in place that helps the mods to do quality assurance with regards to Sticky posting?
FYI, in the services industry, one of the largest economic sectors in the world, all sorts of measures for quality assurance play a critical part in mission success.
Do we have a QA protocol with regards to stickies, I wonder.
Not expecting the mod team to be perfect, (thank you mods) but could this be improved?
asking for ... frens
Note: Last month, there was an average of 24 stickies per 24 hour cycle. (https://fatality-gaw.github.io/2023.10.GREATAWAKENING.WIN.STICKIES.RELOADED.html)
755 stickies / 31 = 24.
Average then is one sticky made per hour.
Important to call it out. I mean, if we don't have more rigorous standards of information handling here, it hurts our mission overall.
I suspect that the OP stumbled upon the video, which was posted 13 hours ago, and simply assumed that it was current BECAUSE it was posted 13 hours ago, BUT failed to do any due diligence to check, reference, or vet that assumption.
The excitement triggered by thinking that Jordan "just brought up" "a great awakening" and directly relating that to The Great Awakening are understandable, but such excitement needs to be tempered and refined by applying Q-type approach to information: check, verify, research, use critical thinking, don't just follow emotional triggers.
That effort on ANY person who posts to check, verify, research, use critical thinking before posting would actually save our collective board many, if not dozens of man hours each and every day.
What I find disappointing is that while the OP made an understandable if regrettable mistake in labeling the post "just brought up", that someone on the mod team apparently stickied it without checking or vetting or applying a basic filter of verification.
Is there some protocol by which posts get vetted prior to sticky for such things as accuracy, bogusness, etc?
The OP's excitement may have over-ridden a more based application of discernment (checking, etc) but the mod should be a backstop to see that such mistakes aren't amplified.
Maybe the mod team doesn't really have that time - and I wouldn't criticize them if this is the case, but I still think the question is valid: is there a protocol or rubric in place that helps the mods to do quality assurance with regards to posting?
FYI, in the services industry, one of the largest economic sectors in the world, all sorts of measures for quality assurance play a critical part in mission success.
Do we have a QA protocol with regards to stickies, I wonder.
Not expecting the mod team to be perfect, (thank you mods) but could this be improved?
asking for ... frens
Note: Last month, there was an average of 24 stickies per 24 hour cycle. (https://fatality-gaw.github.io/2023.10.GREATAWAKENING.WIN.STICKIES.RELOADED.html)
755 stickies / 31 = 24.
Average then is one sticky made per hour.
Important to call it out. I mean, if we don't have more rigorous standards of information handling here, it hurts our mission overall.
I suspect that the OP stumbled upon the video, which was posted 13 hours ago, and simply assumed that it was current BECAUSE it was posted 13 hours ago, BUT failed to do any due diligence to check, reference, or vet that assumption.
The excitement triggered by thinking that Jordan "just brought up" "a great awakening" and directly relating that to The Great Awakening are understandable, but such excitement needs to be tempered and refined by applying Q-type approach to information: check, verify, research, use critical thinking, don't just follow emotional triggers.
That effort on ANY person who posts to check, verify, research, use critical thinking before posting would actually save our collective board many, if not dozens of man hours each and every day.
What I find disappointing is that while the OP made an understandable if regrettable mistake in labeling the post "just brought up", that someone on the mod team apparently stickied it without checking or vetting or applying a basic filter of verification.
Is there some protocol by which posts get vetted prior to sticky for such things as accuracy, bogusness, etc?
The OP's excitement may have over-ridden a more based application of discernment (checking, etc) but the mod should be a backstop to see that such mistakes are amplified.
Maybe the mod team doesn't really have that time - and I wouldn't criticize them if this is the case, but I still think the question is valid: is there a protocol or rubric in place that helps the mods to do quality assurance with regards to posting?
FYI, in the services industry, one of the largest economic sectors in the world, all sorts of measures for quality assurance play a critical part in mission success.
Do we have a QA protocol with regards to stickies, I wonder.
Note: Last month, there was an average of 24 stickies per 24 hour cycle. (https://fatality-gaw.github.io/2023.10.GREATAWAKENING.WIN.STICKIES.RELOADED.html)
755 stickies / 31 = 24.
Average then is one sticky made per hour.
Important to call it out. I mean, if we don't have more rigorous standards of information handling here, it hurts our mission overall.
I suspect that the OP stumbled upon the video, which was posted 13 hours ago, and simply assumed that it was current BECAUSE it was posted 13 hours ago, BUT failed to do any due diligence to check, reference, or vet that assumption.
The excitement triggered by thinking that Jordan "just brought up" "a great awakening" and directly relating that to The Great Awakening are understandable, but such excitement needs to be tempered and refined by applying Q-type approach to information: check, verify, research, use critical thinking, don't just follow emotional triggers.
That effort on ANY person who posts to check, verify, research, use critical thinking before posting would actually save our collective board many, if not dozens of man hours each and every day.
What is sad and disappointing is that while the OP made an understandable if regrettable mistake in labeling the post "just brought up", that someone on the mod team apparently stickied it without any checking or vetting or application of those rules of discernment.
Is there some protocol by which posts get vetted prior to sticky for such things as accuracy, bogusness, etc?
Important to call it out. I mean, if we don't have more rigorous standards of information handling here, it hurts our mission overall.
I suspect that the OP stumbled upon the video, which was posted 13 hours ago, and simply assumed that it was current BECAUSE it was posted 13 hours ago, BUT failed to do any due diligence to check, reference, or vet that assumption.
The excitement triggered by thinking that Jordan "just brought up" "a great awakening" and directly relating that to The Great Awakening are understandable, but such excitement needs to be tempered and refined by applying Q-type approach to information: check, verify, research, use critical thinking, don't just follow emotional triggers.
That effort on ANY person who posts to check, verify, research, use critical thinking before posting would actually save our collective board many, if not dozens of man hours each and every day.
The camaraderie aside, the board has a mission and purpose to advance the awakening by bringing truth to light and sharing it. that purpose and mission requires that we, individually and collectively, increase our vetting skills, due diligence and application of good practice.
What is sad and disappointing is that while the OP made an understandable if regrettable mistake in labeling the post "just brought up", that someone on the mod team apparently stickied it without any checking or vetting or application of those rules of discernment.
Our mods do an amazing job in terms of keeping the shills and scum out of our community, but if possible, there needs to also be a much more rigid approach to what is stickied and what isn't, imo. Because its not only occasionally that someone on the mod team stickies some clickbait fake news, or some mis-labeled post, when even a few minutes of checking would show how bogus the post or content is.
I'm not attempting to grieve the mods, and if they are overworked by keeping the board clean and clear of shills, then I can accept that they haven't time or energy to devote more attention to HOW they vet the sticky process (act), but there is no doubt in my mind that there should be TWO very strong areas of mod focus:
One, keeping the shills at bay and regulating off topic or bad board behavior, and Two, enhancing the quality of the board by judicious use of Stickying.
I mean, in a 24 hour cycle, HOW many posts get stickied? u/fatality's excellent Stickies Reloaded Posts record all the stickies. In October there were 755.
https://fatality-gaw.github.io/2023.10.GREATAWAKENING.WIN.STICKIES.RELOADED.html
Averaging that out, that's 24 stickies per day (755 / 31 = 24). That's an average of 1 sticky per hour.
It's easy to infer that the stickying of a post draws the majority of attention to that post, as evidence by the overall upvote participation garnered by all stickied posts.
But when a post that is bogus, or fatally inaccurate, or is clickbait driven or mislabeled draws that level of attention, it draws on our collective energy as well.
A misleading post title, like this one, represents a drag on many man hours (and attention energy) that could and would otherwise be devoted to better ends, individually and/or collectively.
So it behooves the mod team who do the stickying to vet the content that they sticky. If the rate is one sticky per hour on average, then even 3 or 4 minutes devoted to VETTING the post on some level as to
- applicability
- veracity
- reliability
- credibility
- accuracy of title
etc, would ensure better effectiveness of the time and energy handed over by the hundreds and thousands (?) of users who follow the board and engage with the posts.
Our mod team is awesome, and who really knows how much time or energy they invest for sake of the board mission? The above observations are not meant as a harsh criticism of the mod team, but rather I am inspired to articulate them as a point for reflection, to ask if the situation might benefit from some doable improvements.
Personally, I wonder if the mod team has a protocol or rubric in place for how sticky posts are vetted or how stickies are assigned.
Comments from the mod team over the duration indicate that there are several priorities, such as
- promoting discussion / research of (topic)
- enhancing the fun and morale boosting experience of the board
- not necessarily an 'endorsement' or the content but a pointer to vetting the content
But is there also some protocol by which posts get vetted prior to sticky for such things are accuracy and the vetting points I listed above?
I'd really be interested to invite the engagement of the collective GAW mind to the task of developing such a protocol, one that could be recommended to the mod team (so they don't need to do all the heavy lifting) for consideration and possible implementation to decrease the exact current situation, where a more than 1 year old event is labeled and presented BY STICKY to the whole board, as "Wow! This just happened".
Because I'd be willing to bet that there are a good number of readers who never get down to the comment section here, and who simply take the post on face value BECAUSE they see it and it was stickied.
Thoughts, anyone?
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