I'm a confirmer - haven't done many of late though. A log of who's
confirmed the recording could be helpful and would enforce some degree
of accountability on the confirmer. As an aside I think that most of
the confirmations done on MARP have been done pretty well even though
there is some dispute on what the criteria is for acceptable
confirmatons. Personally I refuse to confirm any recording that
doesn't use standard settings etc even if it plays back correctly. I
know others are of the belief that an inp should be confirmed if it
correctly plays back.
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As a rough rule of thumb I think that 1-2 months regular on the MARP
board is not bad and should be sufficient - especially if a log of
confirmations is kept. A minor but relevant detail is that you must be
sure that the 'would be confirmer' doesn't use bulk download software
like GoZilla that will automatically confirm everything on MARP.
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As for editors I'm a bit more nervous about just anybody being given
this ability even after 6 months of MARP service. I think there needs
to be approval from both the MARP community and the team of people
currently administering MARP with the persons credentials/reputation.
Let's be a little careful with this one.
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tjmorrow@bigpond.com