Proposal: New location requests management approach
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2012 4:55 pm
You know that recently the number of location requests has grown significantly.
Several days ago I have received a PM from Marty.
He asked me if I need a help from moderators with location requests management.
Yes, I do
Here's an idea how to make location requests much simple for me.
I have created a special topic "Pending requests" in "Add location" forum.
This topic is supposed to contain all location-ids that are waiting for submission to YoWindow.
When a new location requested, one of our moderators would copy the location-id (with location and country name) to this topic.
One line for a location.
Example:
972803; Mtubatuba/KwaZulu-Natal/South Africa
983395; Leisure Bay/KwaZulu-Natal/South Africa
974149; Mooketsi/Limpopo/South Africa
1021389; Balgowan/KwaZulu-Natal/South Africa
948738; Tinley Manor/KwaZulu-Natal/South Africa
Then my job is easy.
I just copy/paste this list to our internal software to update the data-base.
After that I will update the "Pending locations" post with a corresponding message.
Like this:
----- Added! ------
972803; Mtubatuba/KwaZulu-Natal/South Africa
983395; Leisure Bay/KwaZulu-Natal/South Africa
974149; Mooketsi/Limpopo/South Africa
1021389; Balgowan/KwaZulu-Natal/South Africa
948738; Tinley Manor/KwaZulu-Natal/South Africa
Now it takes around 30 minutes for me to review 20 posts and add the locations.
With the new approach I think it would be a matter of 5 minutes.
Eventually giving me more time to work on YoWindow.
What do you think guys?
Do you like the idea?
[UPDATED]
Oops, I have submitted this topic as par_moderator.
This is a test account I just have created to test moderator editing permissions.
The "Pending locations" topic is going to be locked for regular users, but editable for moderators.
Pasha
Several days ago I have received a PM from Marty.
He asked me if I need a help from moderators with location requests management.
Yes, I do
Here's an idea how to make location requests much simple for me.
I have created a special topic "Pending requests" in "Add location" forum.
This topic is supposed to contain all location-ids that are waiting for submission to YoWindow.
When a new location requested, one of our moderators would copy the location-id (with location and country name) to this topic.
One line for a location.
Example:
972803; Mtubatuba/KwaZulu-Natal/South Africa
983395; Leisure Bay/KwaZulu-Natal/South Africa
974149; Mooketsi/Limpopo/South Africa
1021389; Balgowan/KwaZulu-Natal/South Africa
948738; Tinley Manor/KwaZulu-Natal/South Africa
Then my job is easy.
I just copy/paste this list to our internal software to update the data-base.
After that I will update the "Pending locations" post with a corresponding message.
Like this:
----- Added! ------
972803; Mtubatuba/KwaZulu-Natal/South Africa
983395; Leisure Bay/KwaZulu-Natal/South Africa
974149; Mooketsi/Limpopo/South Africa
1021389; Balgowan/KwaZulu-Natal/South Africa
948738; Tinley Manor/KwaZulu-Natal/South Africa
Now it takes around 30 minutes for me to review 20 posts and add the locations.
With the new approach I think it would be a matter of 5 minutes.
Eventually giving me more time to work on YoWindow.
What do you think guys?
Do you like the idea?
[UPDATED]
Oops, I have submitted this topic as par_moderator.
This is a test account I just have created to test moderator editing permissions.
The "Pending locations" topic is going to be locked for regular users, but editable for moderators.
Pasha