User blog:NeverToWalkAlone/Reviewing Team

Ahh Gerard you charming, racist alcoholic what ideas do you not share? Well here's another one anyway for you.

I'm thinking of starting a reviewing team. The idea behind it is that we have a team of users who read through at least the first few issues of a story for many reasons. To see if the story has potential, all good ones do. To see if the writer has potential, to help bring the story to the wiki's attention and to generally get to know each writer better as a wiki community.

But Gerard you charismatic stallion, what is the reason for this sudden outburst of unselfishness? You may ask. Well I've noticed alot of new writers coming to this wiki, all releasing issues with hardly, if not no readers. And being one of those writers who struggled to capture an audience I understand how frustrating that was. Without feedback, comes no improvement. Its easy to half arse it and pretend you read the issue and say "Good issue, can't wait for the next." Anyone can do that. I plan to create a team who asses the issue fully, noting things such as word choice, sentence linking etc... not that I'm calling on the grammar Nazi's but it wouldn't kill to improve the wiki's standard of writing.

For the team I would prefer to have the more mature of the wiki. Those who have an understanding of English, such as: Understanding story structure, grammar, punctuation and also story telling as a whole. Those who have a more mature mind, able to not only read but actually assess and suggest improvement areas etc.

But I ramble on, the way I see it - we need to get a team going. Sooner we help one another, sooner we improve the standard of writing, sooner... you get the point right? Let me know guys, don't let this be another blog that goes unnoticed.