On 10/12/07, William Pietri <william(a)scissor.com> wrote:
We've got a lot of cleanup work around here. The people who end up doing
it often burn out because they do too much. And from the outside, some
of the cleanup areas seem to get taken over by people with much more
ardent views than the mainstream, causing a lot of friction. This
reminds me of several of the shared houses I've lived in. Could we use
the same solution, a chore wheel?
I don't think you could assign jobs to people, but some kind of
voluntary javascript job jar might be interesting. Say I'm bored and
feel like taking on a small cleanup task. Give me page where I can
click on a button and get a randomly selected chore or backlog to do.
(Maybe two buttons, for general and admin-restricted chores.) I'm
sure there are hundreds of odd backlogs that almost no one knows about
(like the subcategories in Images for cleanup, say) and a random
generator might be an interesting way of learning about and tackling a
few.