The Tip Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 Someone is working hard to add trails and descriptions of the SATN in Trailforks. Unfortunately a lot of it is wrong. Both wrong names as well as wrong stop and start points for the correctly named trails. Does anyone know who the local admin is of it? I'm pretty sure ARR is responsible. It would be great to get in contact with someone that would allow me to more easily edit all those mistakes. Trailforks is a good resource. Might as well make it accurate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cafeend Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 https://www.trailforks.com/help/view/70/ How Content Approval & Moderation Works Trailforks is built as a tool for trail associations, so we try to give control to local associations over the content in their region. This is different from other sites that try and centralize control & moderation. We believe local groups know best not some central authority. Locals know their trails and what should be public, they know the corner cases and different regions have different policy concerning "unsanctioned" trails. So we provide the tools to let each region decide how their content should be represented. How Moderation & Control works There are several different ways trails & other content is approved & moderated. Our preferred method is assigning users from a local trail association with moderator permissions over the content in their region. So if a new trail is added in your region, this user would be notified and make the decision to approve, deny or modify it. This takes time to build up this database of local admins, we vet each application for region admin and give preference to directors from trail associations. But also give control to other groups or local users if its ok with the local association or no one steps up. If a region does not have any local admins, then the content sits in the global approval queue. This is where the power of crowd sourcing comes in. Users can check this pending content and vote to confirm or reject it. If an item gets enough votes in either direction then it is added or rejected. Each user on Trailforks has a "trust score", which is earned by adding confirmed content to the site over time. Users with higher trust score get more weight when they vote to confirm or reject content. The final way content is moderated is by the Trailforks staff, we periodically go through the global content queue and confirm or reject content ourselves. If we see the content resides in a region where their are local admins setup, we will leave that content for at least 1 week giving the local admins time to review it themselves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cafeend Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 Digging through the website, a crazy amount of info, impressive really 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Tip Posted May 6, 2020 Author Share Posted May 6, 2020 10 minutes ago, Cafeend said: https://www.trailforks.com/help/view/70/ How Moderation & Control works Our preferred method is assigning users from a local trail association with moderator permissions over the content in their region. So if a new trail is added in your region, this user would be notified and make the decision to approve, deny or modify it. I was already pretty sure this is how it worked. So I'm looking for the actual person in ARR. I probably know them, I just don't know who has what duties. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TAF Posted May 7, 2020 Share Posted May 7, 2020 Poking around a bit, it seems like almost anyone can add trails and segments. I'd be surprised if ARR had officially taken this task on, since - to my knowledge - the SATN, with the exception of Slaughter Creek, are not within the ARR purview. But hey, you never know. I've been on Pinkbike a while, I'll see if I can find an admin to ask. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skyyhorn Posted May 7, 2020 Share Posted May 7, 2020 39 minutes ago, TAF said: Poking around a bit, it seems like almost anyone can add trails and segments. I'd be surprised if ARR had officially taken this task on, since - to my knowledge - the SATN, with the exception of Slaughter Creek, are not within the ARR purview. But hey, you never know. I've been on Pinkbike a while, I'll see if I can find an admin to ask. There was a post about some brushy trails by a trail forks volunteer. I can’t remember the name of the fb post, but I think @First Blood or @rugger responded to him. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cxagent Posted May 7, 2020 Share Posted May 7, 2020 (edited) 7 hours ago, The Tip said: I was already pretty sure this is how it worked. So I'm looking for the actual person in ARR. I probably know them, I just don't know who has what duties. Check your email. Edited May 7, 2020 by cxagent Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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