[bksvol-discuss] Re: volunteers who are not contributing

  • From: "Jake Brownell" <jabrown@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 15:46:21 -0500

Gary,
    So what constitutes quality submissions? Shouldn't all accepted books be 
quality ones?

Computers aren't good at making judgment calls because there are so many 
variations, and staff resources are already limited.

Jake
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Gary Petraccaro 
  To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 2:59 PM
  Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: volunteers who are not contributing


  Would we give credits for only quality submissions?
  How about that?

    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: E. 
    To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
    Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 12:47 PM
    Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: volunteers who are not contributing


    Another membership idea might be to make everyone take credits but only for 
    some period of time after their initial membership.  For instance, make 
    everybody who is elligible for bookshare books pay for set up and for the 
    first year.  If they accrue credit during that first year, the credit will 
    be applied to their next year's membership or returned to them at the end 
    of the first year if they do not choose to renew.  This would get rid of 
    people who join the volunteer list, submit stuff of such poor quality that 
    it gets rejected and just stay on and on paying nothing and contributing 
    little.  I know this sounds harsh but if bookshare is facing a monetary 
    issue we need to think about ways of solving for it.

    If you feel really sorry for a blind person you know who cannot afford a 
    first year membership, let's have a link so you can give someone a gift of 
    a membership right on bookshare.

    E.





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