I had a hard time when I was choosing books for both the Genre Challenge and the Translation Challenge because many books that other people had added to prompts did not actually fit those prompts at all. For the Translation Challenge this was particularly egregious; many of the books in "A book written by a Black woman in translation" were in fact written in English.
This feature request is explicitly not meant to punish people who incorrectly associate a book (although I suppose you could make it function that way if you want haha 😈) but is more to keep the lists clean for other users of the challenge to make it easier for people to find books within the intended categories.
I am not entirely sure who should be the keeper of going through these flags; perhaps the owner of the challenge? But it was something I thought of today while starting to read Indigenous People's History of the United States and saw that folks had added it to "A memoir or autobiography by an Indigenous author" in the Genre Challenge, which it very distinctly is not.
For some challenges, like genres, it might be nice to let the host set that when they set the challenge. For example, I have a prompt for a middle grade mystery that is full of books that are neither middle grade nor mysteries. If the host could set it so that only books that are marked as middle grade AND mystery could be added to the prompt, that would cut down on a lot of the inappropriate books. This could get complicated for other things, but for the above example, maybe being able to specify that the book has a translator? I know there are a lot of things in the works, like being able to set challenges with specific books, but I know there are also challenges that might have "Read a book by [author]" and they could be set to that particular author.
Hello! We're sorry about this! I do a check on our challenges around every month or so, but I probably should have been doing it more regularly since we've had more users on the site! I'll get it cleaned up this week. :-)
It's the owners of the challenges indeed who can hide incorrect books from the challenge page, so we're in charge of the TSG ones but beyond that, the other hosts need to keep their pages looking ship shape!
Ah! This wasn't meant in any way as a criticism 😅 You already do SO much to keep things tidy around here! I didn't realize that challenge owners can already hide things. I was more wondering, especially for the bigger challenges, if it would be useful to have something similar to the "Flag incorrect information" button that a user could press to notify the challenge owner of like "hm I actually don't think this one meets the prompt" to help make it a little more of a community effort.
Yes, I have thought about that and do like the idea of users having a way to flag books to the challenge hosts. Some hosts aren't good at keep their challenges tidy and we thought this might naturally lead people not to take part in those challenges over time. Essentially, knowing that your prompt pages are solid is a big draw to people doing your challenges.