IMHO, Because this is a human-reviewed system and the feed-to-reviewer ratio is WAY overloaded.
On 5/25/05, Douglas Clifton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Stu, > > I, for one, am guilty of this. Why did I choose to do it? > > It took me over a month, in some cases twice that long, to even > get the status of some of the feeds into the "awaiting approval" > queue > > The size of this queue is large, to put it mildly. I saw no evidence > to the contrary that these feeds would do anything other than > linger in that state for who knows how much longer. > > I can vouch for the quality and validity of the feeds since I am > a developer and wrote the software that delivers the channels, > as well as authored the content. > > The content itself, in most cases, is directly related to RSS, feeds > and syndication rather than "Why I named my dog Spot" or, > "Visit this site for free stuff" (porn). > > I've also tried to use the newer features of the service such as > adding tags to feeds. However, I seem to be unique in this > regard, or perhaps no one else save Jeff is tagging feeds that > relate to RSS topics. > > I would love to contribute: suggest, review and approve peer > feeds. I've tried to do it on several occasions. The system is > so slow that at times that it is unusable. I cannot tell you how > many times in the past few weeks I've tried, only to get one of: > > request timed out > connection refused > too many mysql connections > > etc > > I've also seen a growing pattern of people coming to this list to > ask other reviewers to approve their feeds for them. Which, to me, > doesn't seem all that much different from asking the teacher if > you can go to the bathroom. > > All of this adds up to one primary observation: Why does it have > to be so slow, so complicated, so tedious to add a feed to Syndica8? > I don't get it. I can, and have, gone to other services, filled out a > form, > confirmed I was a real person and not some bot, uploaded > an OPML of my content, been approved, watched their bot > come around and collect the feeds, and have them available > to subscribers in the space of an hour or less. > > Please do not take these remarks as some sweeping bitch-a-thon, > but constructive criticism. I really believe you need to retool both > your back-end and the front. To a person who either wrote the > software or is seasoned at using it, the interface may be second > nature. To a newcomer it is very confusing, non intuitive and the > response and uptime, well, I won't repeat myself. > > I welcome any feedback to these comments. If you feel they belong > off list, then send me an email. My user ID is dwclifton, and my > email address is in the signature below. > > Thanks, Doug > -- > Douglas Clifton > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://loadaveragezero.com/ > > On 25 May 2005 12:33:47 -0000, [email protected] > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > There is 1 message in this issue. > > > > Topics in this digest: > > > > 1. Peer Review (i.e., please don't Approve your own) > > From: Stuart Whitmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > > ________________________________________________________________________ > > > > Message: 1 > > Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 22:27:27 -0700 > > From: Stuart Whitmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Peer Review (i.e., please don't Approve your own) > > > > Hi all, > > > > I've noticed several instances lately where people suggest a feed and > > later approve it. This defeats the purpose of peer review, and > > decreases the value of the review process and Syndicated status for > > both the Syndic8 database and you/your feed. > > > > If you're in a "hurry" to have a feed reviewed, request that via this > > list, after making sure that you've checked for obvious show-stoppers > > (e.g., at least make sure the feed validates!). If you're not in a > > hurry but would still like an earlier review than might otherwise > > happen, you're welcome to borrow my idea of a "donkey list" in your > > signature. (If you didn't see my comments in an earlier message, to > > explain why I call it a donkey list, watch the original Shrek on DVD > > and watch what Donkey does on the disc menu.) > > > > If there is a problem with your feed and you want to approve it > > anyway, it's not going to help your purposes as much as correcting the > > problem, because potential subscribers may not be able to subscribe > > (and will thus go find another feed instead of yours) due to the > > unfixed flaw in the feed. > > > > It's in your own best interest, and the best interest of the > > community, to let the peer review process maximize the value and > > validity of the Approved feeds. > > > > Thanks, I'll get off my soapbox now... :-) > > > > -- > > Stuart "Rattlesnake Stu" Whitmore > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://www.just-stuart.com/ > > Donkey list: 274472, 312203, 356917, 383781 > > > > > If you're getting "too much mail" then send a message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (this will tell it to stop sending you mail) > > To change your membership use THIS WEB PAGE: > http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/syndic8/join > (here you can set your mail to digest, no mail or LEAVE the list) > > To find more info about Syndicated XML newsfeeds visit > http://www.syndic8.com/ > > > ------------------------------ > *Yahoo! 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