metafandom is a lot quicker about compiling, as far as I can tell.
We try to be. It's a policy that was in effect before I joined the team, and there is or was a strong practical reason for it: LJ at least has something of a cultural norm of commenting only on fairly recent posts, so that if people were going to join a discussion they needed to be aware of it within a couple of days of it being launched. Sometimes there's an inadvertent cooling-off period, where one or more of us won't be sure whether something really belongs in our roundup and hold it for review by other compilers, but that's unusual.
I can't see that really changing, unless the surrounding culture changes and people become more comfortable about commenting on older entries. But I'm also not sure how much difference it really makes, because with the advent of delicious accounts as a kind of holding pen for not-yet-posted and/or not-yet-reviewed-by-the-full-group links, those who're so inclined need not wait for metafandom or linkspam to actually post anything. I don't know how many readers take advantage of this, but I know there must be a decent number who do; I've found that I can tell when either one of my colleagues has tagged something I wrote1 or linkspam has done so because there's a distinct uptick in comments within hours. (Then there'll be a little lull, with comments trickling in at a steady, somewhat elevated rate, and then a larger burst of traffic when the actual link post goes up.) So even though there's already a significant lag between when linkspam will note a post for future inclusion and when they actually put it in a roundup, readers of linkspam will be along to comment on something almost as soon as one of the linkspam compilers has noted its existence.
So while I see the value of a cooling off/rewrite period, I'm not sure it's something that would really work with the technology and culture we've got.
1I normally avoid linking anything I wrote; how do I know whether it's interesting or not?
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Date: 6 Mar 2010 06:54 pm (UTC)We try to be. It's a policy that was in effect before I joined the team, and there is or was a strong practical reason for it: LJ at least has something of a cultural norm of commenting only on fairly recent posts, so that if people were going to join a discussion they needed to be aware of it within a couple of days of it being launched. Sometimes there's an inadvertent cooling-off period, where one or more of us won't be sure whether something really belongs in our roundup and hold it for review by other compilers, but that's unusual.
I can't see that really changing, unless the surrounding culture changes and people become more comfortable about commenting on older entries. But I'm also not sure how much difference it really makes, because with the advent of delicious accounts as a kind of holding pen for not-yet-posted and/or not-yet-reviewed-by-the-full-group links, those who're so inclined need not wait for metafandom or linkspam to actually post anything. I don't know how many readers take advantage of this, but I know there must be a decent number who do; I've found that I can tell when either one of my colleagues has tagged something I wrote1 or linkspam has done so because there's a distinct uptick in comments within hours. (Then there'll be a little lull, with comments trickling in at a steady, somewhat elevated rate, and then a larger burst of traffic when the actual link post goes up.) So even though there's already a significant lag between when linkspam will note a post for future inclusion and when they actually put it in a roundup, readers of linkspam will be along to comment on something almost as soon as one of the linkspam compilers has noted its existence.
So while I see the value of a cooling off/rewrite period, I'm not sure it's something that would really work with the technology and culture we've got.
1I normally avoid linking anything I wrote; how do I know whether it's interesting or not?