I was recently asked a question about reviews by a judge that I thought was worth exploring. Unfortunately, I lost the original transcript of the question, but I will paraphrase it: I recently received a review with a lot of critical feedback. Is it okay for me to share the review with judges I will […]
“Haters gonna hate.” I hear this phrase thrown out from time to time. For those of you who are unfamiliar with it, Urban Dictionary has this to say: “A phrase that represents ones complete and total disregard of another’s negative comment towards the original person.” The idea is that if someone (a hater) says something […]
While I have plenty to say on the topic of feedback, it’s always nice to get other people involved. This week’s guest is Kali Anderson, an L2 from Roanoke, Virginia, and one of my former coworkers in the StarCityGames machine. She’s now the Assistant Manager of the Organized Play Department there. I reached out to […]
Review forms have 4 ratings you can give in the “Comparison” field: Outstanding, Above Average, Average, and Below Average. I’ll let you in on a secret. This field is largely irrelevant. And yet, sometimes it is all you can see when you get a review, like a giant flashing light with siren, especially if you’ve […]
Last week I posted some basic statistical research on reviews and candidates making L3. One of the biggest problems is that counting raw review numbers doesn’t come close to telling the whole story. While I am the kind of completist megalomaniac that demands quality and quantity, given the binary choice between the two, I much […]
And it’s even harder to get it if you don’t ask. One of the frequent laments of judges is “I don’t get reviewed enough.” This, of course, is only surpassed by “I don’t write enough reviews.” As a community, these two things go hand in hand, since if judges aren’t writing enough reviews it stands […]
I guess it’s that time of year. I’ve seen at least three “New Year’s Resolutions” posts having to do with advancing to Level 3. I don’t have a particular problem with this as a goal. Goals are good. The problem I see is that too many judges have very vague goals pertaining to L3. The […]
As I sit here on my holiday break (no events until 2013!), one of the things I am doing is catching up on writing reviews, and it brings to mind the title question, which a judge asked me recently: How long is too long to wait to write a review? Cursory discussions I’ve had with […]
“2012 Review” Just kidding. While the 2010 bug is annoying, I wouldn’t consider it a make-or-break thing to have the correct year in the body of your review. Even though the “observed” date is bugged, the “entered” date does show and filters correctly. Now, if it didn’t sort via the entered date and I had […]
This ongoing blog will focus on my favorite subject in judging: feedback. You might know it better as reviews, and that is a big part of the feedback culture in the Judge Program, but I like calling it feedback because it’s good to emphasize the face-to-face interactions we have at events before we ever write […]