Hard material tends to go through slowly, where as junk fiction tends to go
I've mentioned that no Shakespeare play has been released into F2 or
Well, I guess I should stop complaining now because one of my DP texts has made it to PP and I was able to snag it back myself. But, I will point out its statistics on the latest round, and people can judge for themselves: This book sat on the F2 queue for 7,200 hours. It then went "live" in F2 status for 3 hours, which is how long it took 14 F2 volunteers to do all the pages. Since about 3 volunteers were working on the book at any given time, the total volunteer-hours spent on F2 was about 10. So the ratio of [time sitting on queue]/[volunteer-hours working on text] is about 700 to one. Is this a well-designed system? PS: This book WAS classified as "porn" when it first came out -- which may explain WHY the volunteers are interested in tackling it. I did tag it as containing material related to sexuality and infidelity in case anyone didn't want to work on those subjects. Nowadays the "porn" label would be a joke and the book is considered a classic of modern American literature. In defense of the DP volunteers the other book I have stuck in DP was tackled even more voraciously by DP volunteers -- and that one was never considered "porn." through pretty quickly. Material can be hard AND junk. I am perfectly happy to work on hard stuff if it will actually get used by anyone. I spent some time proofing a hard book on DP [that was labeled "Easy"] that should have been titled "How to Torture a Horse." Put up OED and I will help tackle it. I would also be happy to put up "Outline of Science Vol. II" which is hard AND popular -- if DP were willing to get it out the door in say a year or less. processed into PG for several years, despite sitting in the F2 queue much of that time. And I would also be willing to work on the bard. Again, I won't be one processing him *into* DP unless I have some assurance that he's ever going to come *out* again!