Kat Walsh wrote:
The showcase pieces, the ones that do get past the ever-increasing hurdles, are great -- and I'm glad we have a process for identifying them and bringing them into wider public view, both because the creators deserve the recognition and because the public ought to see it. But tracking the number doesn't give veyr much information except as a comment on the process itself.
Yes, in a way it's sad we have so much attention on gatekeeping and absolute standards (well, as has been said, high and upwardly mobile standards), and so little recognition on great added-value edits, the ones which take an article into a different class of usefulness. As far as I know the transition from B class to A class is still considered to be the most transforming, from the reader's point of view.
Charles