Thread:Talk:New Page Triage/This is going to bite more newbies than the present system

As currently designed the system doesn't allow you to fix a typo or add a category but leave an article unpatrolled. Instead it is designed to encourage the idea that patrolling is all about templating articles and tagging them for deletion. With the current system a large minority of patrollers have hotcat installed and a proportion of newpage actually get improved as part of the process, by designing out the most positive part of the newpage patrol process Zoom is likely to make the process even less welcoming to newbies than it currently is.

One theory for our decline as a community since 2007 is the shift from SoFixIt and crowd improving article to templating things for others to work on. By channeling patrollers away from hotcat, wikifying and typo fixing Zoom is liable to reinforce the trend that is undermining our community.