Mentors,
Clemency please! :) Note that my comment about sending back a design three
times was a maximum and intended only if there was something significantly
wrong. Especially with the design tasks, they are naturally quite subjective
to judge, but there are several I’ve come across recently that have been
rejected a second or third time that seemed overly / arbitrarily critical with
busy-work (tweak a font or add a byline or change a background). If the design
is complete and otherwise “clean” (i.e., we could possibly use it with minimal
effort), we should not be asking them to add or change something petty. More
is not necessarily better.
The three chances suggestion is where the submitter clearly lacks ability or
didn’t put in effort.
Some submissions clearly have had a LOT of time and effort invested, and the
more effort and complexity involved, the more lenient we should be. Could you
replicate what they’ve done in less than 2 hours? If not, you probably
shouldn’t mark it as needing more work! Even if it has issues.
I’ve also seen feedback that is not objectively technical in nature. Avoid
subjective feedback except in egregious cases where it looks like the person
whipped something together in just a few minutes. We don’t want to demoralize
participants. We need to be more encouraging.
On a related note, we just had several tasks go 20+ hours without getting
reviewed. Apparently everyone wanted to take Saturday off because everyone’s
been working so hard! I know it can be tiresome, but thank you for all the
good mentoring.
I’m creating a shared calendar so we can sign up for review times. More
details in a follow-up e-mail.
Cheers!
Sean
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