I think there are two things being mixed up there.
1) We of course read the header and put the story in the right category. If we didn't it was an honest mistake and sadly these happen. We don't have the time to double check every post (if we ever actually get some additional help this might change though and in that case we will clearly strive for perfection in *all* categories). That is sadly the truth.
2) When a story is labeled not too clearly (favorite examples - all of them seen before and more regular than you might think: "gen, John/Teyla", "Elizabeth", "I really don't know, maybe....") or even by no clearly visible at all, we are not going to be extra careful but would be exstatic if authors were to decide they maybe want their stories in the right categories they should label it clearly. Which would take them a lot less time than it would take us to 'skim' all the stories we were unsure about (It actually already saves us a lot of time now that we don't have to worry anymore about not clearly labeled stories ever since we decided to leave those uncategorised).
3) We actually don't think that gen and uncategorised are the ones most often mislabeled but rest assured that we already have been very careful about these categories for a while (which is why we make so few mistakes in there and so many more in some of the other categories). I would also like to point out that the sheer number of things people have so far thrown around (not here but in a few other discussions as well) that would not result in a lot of additional time we just have to really ask ourselves in which cases is it justified. In which cases is the problem really a problem and nut just perceived as a problem.
Believe me, we are trying to figure that out and should the result really be that we are clearly biased in any of the work we doing we might have to rethink what we do.
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1) We of course read the header and put the story in the right category. If we didn't it was an honest mistake and sadly these happen. We don't have the time to double check every post (if we ever actually get some additional help this might change though and in that case we will clearly strive for perfection in *all* categories). That is sadly the truth.
2) When a story is labeled not too clearly (favorite examples - all of them seen before and more regular than you might think: "gen, John/Teyla", "Elizabeth", "I really don't know, maybe....") or even by no clearly visible at all, we are not going to be extra careful but would be exstatic if authors were to decide they maybe want their stories in the right categories they should label it clearly. Which would take them a lot less time than it would take us to 'skim' all the stories we were unsure about (It actually already saves us a lot of time now that we don't have to worry anymore about not clearly labeled stories ever since we decided to leave those uncategorised).
3) We actually don't think that gen and uncategorised are the ones most often mislabeled but rest assured that we already have been very careful about these categories for a while (which is why we make so few mistakes in there and so many more in some of the other categories). I would also like to point out that the sheer number of things people have so far thrown around (not here but in a few other discussions as well) that would not result in a lot of additional time we just have to really ask ourselves in which cases is it justified. In which cases is the problem really a problem and nut just perceived as a problem.
Believe me, we are trying to figure that out and should the result really be that we are clearly biased in any of the work we doing we might have to rethink what we do.
So far, I've not seen any proof of that.