* option to make edits private, either from the copy editor side or the publisher side. Or both! For example, maybe I don't feel the need to broadcast my edits to particular sites, since I'd like to save them a little embarrassment. Everybody makes mistakes, and the Internet has a way of amplifying things. Maybe if I've successfully claimed a site, I could choose to have them not display on goosegrade.com. Also, as a copy editor, I'd like to choose to have the notifications go just to the site publisher, not the whole world. As a middle ground, have the corrections stay up until they are accepted and corrected?
* explanation for correction, questions to the author ("did you mean?") or just the ability to point out an error without a suggested fix, since they usually write in a different style than me. This makes the correction process a little more collaborative.
* concept of following and sharing. So for following, using something like http://drupal.org/project/friendlist or http://drupal.org/project/buddylist2 (since the current iteration of the gooseGrade site is a Drupal site). For sharing, the concept of an RSS feed of people's edits, so you can follow them in your RSS reader of choice. Combine the two with a "dashboard" so you can see what the people you are following are doing.
And, most controversially, a name/brand change. The "Grade" part of gooseGrade evokes school grading, which reminds me of the fear and loathing that comes from having a teacher grade your work. I don't mind the levels and percentages on the profile pages, though I'd like an explanation for it. And I'll be OK with a leaderboard if I can opt out of the game: I want to make the web better, not compete with my friends.
Sorry about the delay in response, I wasn't aware of the post. Awesome feedback and ideas!
*One big reason the edits are public is to prevent the publisher from receiving duplicate edits. It also shows an active community when the user clicks "copy edit" and other people's edits popup. This said we have thought about making it an option on the publisher's end. Not sure when or if that will be made though.
*We are thinking about letting the user append a note to the author. Maybe this is what you are looking for?
*We are definitely eying this. Look for something along the lines of befriending or following soon. Thanks for the module suggestions!
* confidence level. That is, if I correct something, but I'm not 100% confident that it was a misspelling--sometimes these are intentional or consistent with the way they write--I'd like to have a percentage of how confident I am. How that applies to my profile, I don't know.
* a way to do a correction bounty. That is, as a site owner, maybe I can offer people money as a reward for finding mistakes. Also means implementing an ecommerce option. And I can see how people might use it fraudulently.
Crowdsourced editorial work can only become a pervasive world-wide tool by offering compensation. I've written a Knol article (Google: Keystroke Lotteries) on this subject, in which I speculate that only lotteries can offer the perception of an adequate reward. Lottery funding would be done by auction, probably for a place in an online work-queue. Typists would be aiming for keystroke-consensus alone, and one or more such keystrokes would be selected to win a particular lottery. I think it's an idea waiting to happen.
*This is an interesting concept. The user's accuracy ranking kind of goes along this idea. I'll look at it. Some people might not feel comfortable they are 100% confident and just the question might make them not want to post the edit.
*This would be a big change to the site but merits further thought.
Started a new thread instead of replying here.