Wed Dec 14, 2016 11:49 in Ex-Yugoslavia
Update: Job Retrospectives 2016-12-14 19:37:29 UTC, Kristen Hohenstein
Hello everyone,
We’ve changed something about job retrospectives. You’ll now only receive a retrospective if you answered Yes, but 2 other people in your job group answered No. In addition to this, you will only be able to view job groups you received a retrospective email for.
This change is being made because we saw retrospectives being used in ways that weren’t constructive. People were using the links to look at any job group they’ve ever participated in, even if they didn’t receive a retrospective for it. This created a hunt for “yes workers” to report to Rainforest admin in the forum. While the desire to help Rainforest admin root out cheaters is noble in principle, the way it was happening created a lot of division and tension in the forums. People were being accused of being yes workers when in fact some weren’t, and they were often belittled for making honest mistakes. This isn’t constructive. In addition to this, retrospectives in their current state are only meant to be a learning tool — there is no efficient way for us to manually look into every person accused of being a yes worker in the forum threads dedicated to his topic.
Moving forward, continue to refrain from posting about job retrospectives in the forum. The topic will be flagged and deleted. However, not all is lost! We are brainstorming ways to enable testers to review other testers’ work and flag suspicious results. Whatever solution we come up with will respect the privacy of all testers involved and enable us to efficiently gather and act on the suspicious test results that you flag.
As always, thank you all for being awesome!