Guys, I'd like to help reviewing characters, but how do I find ones with no approvals yet?
(one approval has to be from judges and one from anyone, right?)
Send me an email so that I can add you to the list of people that gets notified of new submissions. We've got an email thread going about which characters need review still, that we try to keep reasonably up to date. Briefly, the characters that need review right now are
Tristan e'Ransiel,
Skalisss, and
Amicus Nuldico. There are a few more that have feedback and need to make changes before being looked at again.
As for who the approvals need to be from... I think not just anyone. LEW has a system of "trial" character judges that I think we'd do well to copy. Basically you need two approvals, one of which must be from a full character judge and the other can be another full character judge or a trial judge. You become a trial judge by emailing the judges or posting (I guess in this thread?), and if the judges agree, you'd be added to the list. After a while, when we're comfortable that your comments are correct and you don't miss much, we promote you to a full character judge.
At this point, our full char judges are graf, halford, dunamin, garyh, and myself. (cue horrible embarrassment if I missed anyone.) Of those, dunamin is the only one smart enough not to volunteer for all the judging duties, and only does character approvals.
What do people think of this system? Shall we call Ata a trial character judge?
By way of clarification, I'm not at all concerned with Ata judging characters, I'm more thinking about the next guy, and the next, who want to help. We'll certainly need more help as time goes on, if only from the inevitable burnout.