Approving your own waymark

[+Max and 99 2041]

If you don't have enough officers, and feel the need to review your own waymark, please ask for help. . I've seen it before: an officer approves his own waymark, and there's an error. It's easy to miss your own mistakes. Just don't do it. Please.

 

Edit: especially when you posted it the same day you approved it. You didn't give any other officer a chance! 

Edited July 17 by Max and 99

[+Tante.Hossi 10]

I know this problem - but I never approve my own waymarks. 

If there are less active officers at one of my categories or if they are sleeping, I get in contact with them and ask them to approve my waymark.

[+Max and 99 2041]

Really? You're going to keep doing it? Where are the other officers in this category?

[vulture1957 169]

isn't he leader of the category?

[+elyob 150]

WM12V4K

[+elyob 150]

WM12V1V

[+Max and 99 2041]

Just a quick glance I see a few self-approved in the most recent dozen. 

[vulture1957 169]

can't be me, as I'm not a PM

 

[+elyob 150]

"There are no written guidelines that prohibit one from reviewing one's own waymarks, but it is generally regarded as poor policy, although I know some people who do it regularly. It is not so much a matter of ethics, in my view, but a matter of quality control. Why do authors hire proof readers? It is simply because we miss our own mistakes, and I don't want to miss my own mistakes in a waymark."

 

Above is a 2014 quote from silverquill.

[+Max and 99 2041]

1 minute ago, elyob said:

"There are no written guidelines that prohibit one from reviewing one's own waymarks, but it is generally regarded as poor policy, although I know some people who do it regularly. It is not so much a matter of ethics, in my view, but a matter of quality control. Why do authors hire proof readers? It is simply because we miss our own mistakes, and I don't want to miss my own mistakes in a waymark."

 

Above is a 2014 quote from silverquill.

Understood. And I personally think it shouldn't be done. Especially when there are others who can review it instead of you.

[+elyob 150]

31 minutes ago, Max and 99 said:

Understood. And I personally think it shouldn't be done. Especially when there are others who can review it instead of you.

I agree 100% and there's not a thing we can do about it.  

 

Edited July 18 by elyob
I am too angry.

[+elyob 150]

Here we go again.

[vulture1957 169]

<snip>   makes up his own rules. That'll teach us to post his name!

 

[+T0SHEA 180]

10 hours ago, vulture1957 said:

<snip>

How many threads need to be shut down, before realizing who is actually playing the game?

[+QuarrellaDeVil 20]

[vulture1957 169]

I'm not the one approving my own waymarks, or making fake accounts FOR MY DOG and making him a reviewer in my category.