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It appears to me that on all sites like this where a lot of photos must be screened there is something of a screener burnout period after about 6 months. New screeners come online and they do a great job for a while of keeping up with the demand but after half a year or so begin to slow down considerably. This could be due to a lot of factors. For one I suppose you can only look at so many thousand photos before they begin to all look alike. For another life in general may simply catch up to screeners who have put things off in their personal life in order to make time for long screening sessions. Sooner or later a screener would have to take time to deal with anything in his or her personal life that had been put off. Finally it might just become boring after a long enough time screening and the screener might simply wish to do anything else for a while. There could be other reasons as well but these seem the most likely in my opinion. Screeners should feel free to chime in about that.
The solution to this problem as I see it would be to have enough screeners that each screener would be on for a month then off for a month alternating with another screener. It would take several alternating pairs like that to keep up with the incoming flow of photos, but in that way every screener would be able to pursue other interests, take vacations, or simply relax for a while. They would be able to plan ahead as it would be an obvious schedule and could be assured of being able to leave home at times without feeling as though they have let the site down in some way. This would also leave a pool of off duty screeners at any time if one on duty screener should have a personal emergency or illness that would preclude screening duties for a time.
I know there are a number of members who have expressed the desire to screen so it should be possible for the staff here to choose enough interested parties who are qualified for screening duties to set up a rotation like that.
To all the present screeners and staff, please don't think this is aimed at anyone here in particular, I have seen the same sort of situation on several other sites and it just seems that this kind of screener burnout is a by-product of trying to mix screening duties with life in general.
Correct observations. That can happen. Also, add in personal changes to many screeners' lives, and then you get upload buildup!
I think the only solution is to add more screeners to take the increased load. You can't plan your life around screening, month on month off won;t work!
We are currently dicussing amongst the crew about adding new screeners, so you may see a "request for screeners" thread appearing shortly.
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