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PEP Oddball judging?

 
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Hiya! I just got the sand-level PEP Oddball badge this morning and noticed that the UI now wants me to judge an Oddball BB that I certainly shouldn't. Now, obviously, I can just choose to do the right thing and not interact with it, but if everyone is doing that, it might be that the powers that be don't know it's broken...if it is. So, I'm reporting the situation, knowing that it might already be a known thing, but also wondering if how I'm supposed to handle it is documented somewhere. And for that matter, am I supposed to judge *any* oddball submissions ever?

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Mike Haasl has the wood-rank in oddball, which I think means only higher-ranked folks can judge his submissions.
Mike Haasl has the wood-rank in oddball, which I think means only higher-ranked folks can judge his submissions.
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But here it is asking me to do it. I've never seen the code ask me to judge something that I didn't already have the badge including that BB, so I'm assuming it's because Oddball is odd, but it also seems like it could be made to work right(ish).
But here it is asking me to do it. I've never seen the code ask me to judge something that I didn't already have the badge including that BB, so I'm assuming it's because Oddball is odd, but it also seems like it could be made to work right(ish).
 
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Hi Christopher,
We are given a number of BBs which we can certify.  In this list are some things that we have no idea about.
The hardest things to judge are oddball BBs.  
I only certify things that I am comfortable with.  Medicine is not one of my area of expertise so I will only certify those that are very simple.
Fabric is another area.  Just leave it if you are not comfortable.
With Oddball, there is often a staff forum for these, especially Mike's and Opalyn's.  They are at PEP1 and we often refer to PW if the staff discussion does not come to a decision.
Hope this helps.
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Oh neat, someone saw my post! :)

My impression, thought I'm not sure now if I read this when learning about SKIP/PEP or intuited it through observation as I started acquiring badges, is that for us regular (non-staff) participants, we are only eligible to judge/certify BBs if we have both: completed that BB ourselves and also completed the badge that is part of. And it's evident that some pool of staff can certify BBs that they haven't completed but I'm not really sure if that's just a specific handful of you or everyone and whether you have broad certification rights or custom-fit -- it's a curiosity but doesn't really matter. If my first assertion about certification is generally correct, either oddball is a special case or it's bugged. Either way, it might be better if the software only lets me judge oddball BBs when the submitter is lower-ranked in oddball than I am. And I can still opt not to when I don't feel qualified.
 
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