Foundry Newsletter: Community Perspectives (10th Issue)

[ZeakCytho]

For the tenth issue of the foundry newsletter, we're returning to the poll question for the community perspectives section. Please vote and, if you are so inclined, write a short bit on why you voted the way you did.

[whitestazn88]

i say the number one job of a CA is to just lick the stamps.

their feedback should not be more important than any other foundry visitor's feedback on any given map.
a good CA should be unbiased when giving judgment on his/her assigned map, and the foundry process is such that those maps will at some point reach a certain standard by which they can be stamped.
but this comes from the community, so an overbearing CA will actually hinder the map-making process in my opinion, because then the map-maker is forced to oblige to them, making the map less and less like what the map-maker wants.

no doubt, i respect them, but it's like that whole self-fulfilling prophesy shit you read about in psychology. the CAs can make the maps into what they want just by saying, "i'm not gonna stamp that until you do a, b, and c, which may or may not be whats best for the map.

[foregone]

In my mind it's a combination of stamping and directing feedback in so far as their feedback is designed to maintain the quality which is expected for maps at CC.

[reggie_mac]

I think its licking the stamps and moving the map through the foundry,
Its the map creators responsibility to keep their discussion on topic.

[DiM]

tricky question....
in a perfect foundry the CAs should simply follow threads and when necessary just come in and give the stamps
but this is not a perfect foundry so they must read threads, give feedback, guide the map maker, issue warnings for spammers and give stamps