Hey, wow, I have this timesaving idea, More brilliant than cheese Options

[Adam]

Totally serious. Having someone go through some submissions to check them for simple things - incorrect character stats, incorrect interpretations of rules, and other "big" errors would be a great help.

One of the related problems is when we take the time to read a submission in depth and make comments/annotations to it, then send that back to the author with a "We thought you had an interesting concept and some good ideas, and in turn we have some ideas on how to make it even better, what do you think?" ... then, if we don't get a reply from the author at all, we've just wasted our time - time that could have been spent on a different article from a different author.

After some authors repeatedly said "I'll make the changes!" and then never did [and continued to send in submissions that completely didn't match our stylesheet, take in account any of our previous suggestions, or even look like a Shadowrun article at all] we simply moved to sending short form-letter rejections, but we can't do that to any article that isn't quite up to snuff, so we have to gamble our time on articles that may not turn into anything.

Usually if we want substantial changes we ask the original author to make them him- or herself [or we say "If you don't want to make these changes, but don't mind us making them, we'll still publish the article"], but it seems to be about a 50/50 chance that they never return any followup emails.

And, to be totally fair, sometimes we are /quite/ late getting feedback back to authors - trying to get better at this, especially with the new publishing schedule.

[Adhoc]

The basic idea would be saving my time on the part of the job (:being a GM) that I like doing (:making plots). I'd rather you saved my time on a part of the job that I don't like doing (like making NPCs).

/Anders

[Starfurie]