So, to a greater or lesser extent, we're already doing this. You might have noticed that there's articles coming up on Mondays now, with the subtitle Blockbluster. We've just trailed a new review series called Filmsy reviews as well. These are part of an expansion of the article process in order to have a specific publishing day and we're working on getting editing up and running for it. The content is currently being curated by Ambi, so if you're looking at writing any reviews of movies, hit him up for ideas so we don't end up with several reviews of the same thing.
As I am led to understand, Marcuse generally reviews each submitted article and posts them after some editing process.
Everyone seems to be confused as to what happens with editing now, since it's not "marc edits and posts everything" so I'd like to take the opportunity to clarify. Most of the editing and image work is now done by a small team of incredibly committed and awesome people who edit to a specific schedule I set. I then review it and post up the finished work on the date it's meant to be run on. The only real delaying factor for this is if the author doesn't contact us to approve the edits and greenlight the work. This is why occasionally you'll see no article up. Authorial control over their own work is more important to me, so if I don't get the okay I won't post unless it's been ages and I absolutely have to.
Editors are currently named in the top banner of the article on the media site, so go give them user ratings if you liked an article too! Then give Ambi one for processing the images!
As reviews generally need to be timely, this would be a sped up version, I guess?
To be totally honest, I don't see this as being either possible or fair within the system we currently have. Speeding up reviews only based on them being timely is effectively saying that whenever a review is posted someone has to jump to and edit that shit asap and then post it regardless of every structure I've set into place to ensure consistent content delivery. Basically it's a fine idea, but I don't think it's workable right now. Having a day for reviews is about the best compromise I can find to get more reviews out without putting other people's work further and further back in the schedule which would be massively unfair.
I want to accommodate the reviews in a way that preserves the structure we have in place and allows for reasonably timely reviews. Hopefully this works out and we can continue it, so if you like the reviews thumb them and comment on them so we know it's a good idea.