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Why am I getting this email?

The Haecksen website thrives on contributions from the community. To ensure that all Haecksen can share their topics, we have a process that includes a community review. This community review is meant to make sure that the content for the website is generally okay, for example:

  • it’s not factually incorrect
  • it doesn’t contain problematic phrasing
  • it doesn’t contain misleading statements

Even if there were a dedicated editorial team for the website, covering the entire range of Haecksen topics would only be manageable with a very large team.

No editorial team?

Nope, there isn’t an editorial team in the common sense for the website. We all are the editorial team, and we all are the journalists for the website.

There’s only a limited number of people with access to the website to prevent outbreak of chaos ;) and because it requires separate account management. But these peeps are just your technical support, making sure the process is followed and getting your content onto the website.

The website team does - of course - still read what you write, but they have neither the resources nor the knowledge to evaluate everything the community could come up with.

I still want to get rid of it

The website team sends all emails based on a template, so you can easily filter these emails:

If you’re worried about filtering too much, you can also add this criterion:

  • Content includes “Meta: #haecksen.org-Webseiten-Team”

Not far enough?

We’ve discussed the impact of these emails on the mailing list several times, but we don’t see a suitable alternative. From the perspective of the website team, here are the options:

  1. Abolish the process and stop publishing community content
  2. Skip the community review step, which would mean we’d have to -> 1) abolish the process due to the lack of an editorial team
  3. Collect content over a longer period (e.g., 1-3 months) and then send a collective email, which could mean it takes months for a contribution to appear on the website, especially problematic for events
  4. Limit the community review (only via our own mailing list or Rocket) and increase the risk

You’re welcome to share this or any other ideas at any time - either directly with us or during the plenary when we discuss this point, or however you’d like!

If you decide to bring up your concerns directly in the plenary, please wait until the website team has finished presenting their topics, like structural changes to the website, to the community.

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