The higher the standards we volunteers set for the submitter's scan, the easier that scan will be to validate.
The easier validation is, the more folks will be willing to take it on.As it is now, it is what it was never meant to be. We fix up poor scans because we feel bad about rejecting a book somebody works on. So we validators spend a great deal of time fixing up a scan which may have been produced poorly to begin with.
Believe me I understand scanning can be difficult. I also know from fixing up less than great scans that a little forethought and some learned skills can make the step 1 copy really great and a pleasure to scan.
We need to hold submitters to high quality and validators to high quality. We need to all learn how to do these tasks well. Having said that I will again say that we also need to give up spending ridiculous amounts of time on poorly produced submits.
There existance on step 1 is a distraction. New validators take them and get discouraged. More experienced validators spend lots of time fixing up one book when we might be validating several in the same amount of time. I know there are exceptions for truly valuable additions to the collection where lots of time is needed to validate but they are not what I am talking about here.
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