The Crit Crew is our Discord-based critique team, created with the two main goals in mind.
- Cultivating a healthy and efficient critique environment for our authors, both new and old.
- Help hone the skills of new Critics and Greenlighter Trainees.
To be eligible to apply, the following must be true:
- You have been a member of the Backrooms Wiki for at least one month.
- You have given at least three critiques in the sandbox or idea forums.
- You are present on the Backrooms Wiki Discord server.
If you meet those criteria and would like to join, please fill out this application. It will then be reviewed by the GLMP and voted on. Either you will be accepted onto the team, or your application will be denied and you will be given pointers on how to improve for your next attempt. Then you simply need to create a critic profile on the Meet-the-Critics channel.
If you have any questions or concerns regarding The Crit Crew, please contact a Mod or Greenlighter via Discord or Wikidot PM.
Team Structure & Responsibilities
Greenlighters — "Crit Captains"
This position is available for any Greenlighter willing to join the team. They will be responsible, to some degree, for the following:1
General mentoring of Critics and Greenlighter Trainees
- Assist new critics and GLT's in improving their critique skills.
- When necessary, teach them how to handle the different situations that arise from giving critique2.
Help perform monthly evaluations.
- Each Crit Captain will be responsible for at least one critic of their choice. If someone would like, they can assist with multiple.
- These will act as a more thorough checkup on how the Critic is doing, where they can improve, and what they've been doing well.
- This could also serve as a good time for the Critic to bring up any concerns, questions, or suggestions if they have any.
Follow up on drafts that have been deemed worthy of a greenlight, or at least close to it, by the Critics and GLT. This allows us to not only gauge their judgment of drafts but also gives us an opportunity to be proactive with quality drafts.
Greenlighter Trainees
Help organize Critics.
- If you see a draft thread that is having a hard time getting attention, bring it up in the critic channel and see if anyone is available to take it.
- If a critic ping has been left unresponded to (after a reasonable time), bring it to the critic channel and re-ping people again.
Sandbox Forum Channel
- Assist in checking the sandbox channel for any requests for help that may not have pinged or otherwise have been missed.
Do some crits — That's the name of the game.
Critics
Critics are expected to do any of the following, to whatever degree they are willing and able to:3
- Respond to Critic pings;
- Critique drafts;
- Assist in the sandbox channel;
- Translation critique;
- Idea critique.
Critic Channel thread – Each Critic will have a thread on the critic channel where they will need to post links to their critiques. Just a link will suffice; this is to assist with evaluations and gauging activity.
Communication – With any team, this is the most important aspect. We need to communicate not only between ourselves but also with the community. This means actively updating your Crit Crew profile to state your availability, estimated response time, and, when necessary, whatever queue system you have for yourself.
While we understand everyone has lives and situations happen where you may not be available certain weeks, we would like to see at least two critiques per week, or at the very least some level of involvement in the team. Anyone deemed inactive for a period of 2 weeks will be removed from the roster, though they may rejoin when they have more availability.4
Auxiliary Crew
Discord Staff
Help monitor activity of critics and assist in communication.
Retired Greenlighters
Our honorary greenlighter team members can, and are encouraged to, assist the team in whichever way they are available to.
Team Promo & Star Critic
Each month the Crit Crew will collectively vote on one of the monthly front-page promos.
One member of the critic team is given the "Star Critic" role for consistently providing high-quality critique during the previous month. Critics are recommended to highlight at least four threads that are the best examples of their critique. The Greenlighter Team will then deliberate together, evaluate the performance of every critic, and decide who will receive the "Star Critic" role, which comes with the front-page "Critic Spotlight" feature of an article of their choice.
- Quality ≠ Quantity. We are looking for high-quality critique, not the amount of critique a critic can provide in a certain timeframe.
- Members who are part of the GLMP are not eligible for Star Critic.
Please note that with the implementation of this new system, the old points system has been abolished.