How would it affect the subgroup distribution of the authors’ writings if someone is dropped for time/quality reasons? Wouldn’t this be imbalanced, as now some people aren’t getting as much feedback/votes and not having to review as much either? I feel like it would have downstream effects too since those groups would be smaller, but I’m too tired to be sure rn lol
Good question. I think the subgroup structure has a little flexibility for variable numbers being cut. As you said, a smaller subgroup will mean less reading and writing to do, but you also get less feedback in return, so it evens out somewhat. And the big elimination steps based on global ranking of prose/plot happen across the entire remaining field, so unequal subgroup sizes have no real effect there (other than it might be a little bit easier to win a high aggregate rating in a small group compared to a large one). This is one reason to favour larger subgroups since the percent different between 8 and 7 is less than between 5 and 4, but total reading/writing demand puts an upper limit on subgroup size.
How would it affect the subgroup distribution of the authors’ writings if someone is dropped for time/quality reasons? Wouldn’t this be imbalanced, as now some people aren’t getting as much feedback/votes and not having to review as much either? I feel like it would have downstream effects too since those groups would be smaller, but I’m too tired to be sure rn lol
Good question. I think the subgroup structure has a little flexibility for variable numbers being cut. As you said, a smaller subgroup will mean less reading and writing to do, but you also get less feedback in return, so it evens out somewhat. And the big elimination steps based on global ranking of prose/plot happen across the entire remaining field, so unequal subgroup sizes have no real effect there (other than it might be a little bit easier to win a high aggregate rating in a small group compared to a large one). This is one reason to favour larger subgroups since the percent different between 8 and 7 is less than between 5 and 4, but total reading/writing demand puts an upper limit on subgroup size.