Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-4750363-20131023020818/@comment-5643552-20131025210139

ImGonnaBeThatGuy wrote:

Also, I think one of the goals of the review team should be leaving feedback. When someone's story gets deleted, usually they're just confused. When they ask why they get a response that doesn't go into specifics, just possibilities of why it might have been removed. That doesn't help them at all. It's a tedious process, but if you want to raise the quality of the site you need to tell people exactly what they're doing wrong and help them to do it right.

Leaving comprehensive feedback on every pasta I reject isn't so much 'tedious' right now as it is basically impossible. Don't get me wrong; I would LOVE to be able to give actual feedback on every pasta I reject. I have even been making more of an effort to give helpful advice to people who leave messages on my talk page asking me why their story was deleted, but giving this treatment to everyone would become a monstrous workload in itself.

Compiled with my already-massive workload on here without taking this into account, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to get back to them on it for several days or even weeks, at which point they may have already moved on. To help keep myself from completely burning out, I often resort to giving general info and possibilities as to why their story was deleted. No, it's not very helpful. It's better than nothing, but not much.

Having a team of people dedicated to helping regulate quality AND giving comprehensive feedback on pastas could give me a lot more breathing room, meaning more time to respond to queries on my talk page personally. More users giving and receiving feedback could also help promote community growth in a way, which would in turn positively impact the overall quality of content. In theory, anyway.

TL;DR: I agree with this comment.