(08-06-2017, 05:07 AM)bovovovo Wrote:As a grader, right now it's honestly just a transitional time, and most of the time any kind of transition is going to be a little rough. We went from doing things the old-old way (only grading a week after it was posted) which created the backlog originally (which was working until the bank changed their rule on equipment payments), then we went with a new idea (you post in a ready-to-be-graded thread) which changed the order things were being graded in, AND THEN just a few days after that the old head grader had to step down and a new one came on and implemented this "no more waiting one week to grade" thing.
So you've got graders who were used to only grading once a week now having to churn through this big 5-page backlog of articles (at first it was about 9 pages). I know we've hired a few more graders to help.
Not making excuses, just explaining the situation a little. It's completely fair to be frustrated with the back log.
It sucks, and I've put out articles myself recently that I don't really expect to be graded any time soon (which I agree can be a little disheartening) but hopefully you can trust that we're doing all we can to get caught up. After we finally get caught up, new articles should be graded much more quickly. We just have to get through about 5 pages worth of backlogged articles right now
But thats not really accurate. I have seen graders just randomly start grading new articles instead of going through the backlog. No one is complaining about the backlog taking a long time. People just don't understand the random order that fucks over some people.