If anyone sees my missing edits, please return them to me.

I am so frustrated right now. I've spent literally hours going through unreviewed and removing dead links, spam, duplicates, affiliates, you name it, I deleted it. Fine and dandy, right? Except, when I went to check my total number of edits those I deleted weren't included. WHY?!?!?! Was that hours of work with no credit to me? I used the mighty and powerful Apollo tool that lets editors sort through the sites in unreviewed. I first used this tool to sort through a category with only about a [some random number]^* unreviewed sites in it. I didn't notice at the time that when I used the tool that those edits I made wouldn't be credited towards me. After trying out the tool for the first time on a few small categories I decided it was time to move on to something bigger, better, and much nastier. The category letter that has the most unreviewed sites in it. Yep, I decided to spend my time going through over [a very large number]^* unreviewed sites to delete all the dead links, spam, and sites with no content.

Going through [a very large number]^* unreviewed sites takes a very long time. In fact, it's been 3 days and I've deleted at least [a smaller number than a very large number]* sites from the category, and I'm still not done! But, that's because some sites make my browser crash and I have to start over again. I learned real quickly that when I go through unreviewed I should delete those sites every 5 minutes before I lose my place and have to find them again when one of those sites makes my browser crash (darn those Java applets!).

Okay, back to why I'm frustrated. I spent a few hours the past 2-3 days going through unreviewed using the Apollo tool and deleting over 100 non-working, non-listable sites only to NOT be credited for them in my total number of edits. Anyone in my shoes would be frustrated. It was nice seeing the number of unreviewed in that category go down, though. I think I can safely say that that letter category is well represented with over 500 listed sites that I don't plan on adding anymore unless I come across them while browsing the Internet, and I don't mean browsing as in searching for them, but more like serendipity - it would have to be a really good site for me to add anymore to this category.

Well, now, I'm going to stay far-far away from this very powerful Apollo tool, especially now since I know that I won't get credit for any edits I do using that tool. It does make it easier to find some things, like duplicate sites, but that's probably the only thing I'll use it for. Now, I'm just going to go through the unreviewed pool like regular editors and delete all the dead links. I used the Apollo tool because you could keep a record of sites you wanted to move to another category or delete altogether. That helped a lot because when my browser crashes then I'll still have a record of those sites that should be deleted, whereas, when I don't use Apollo and my browser crashes then I'll just have to go through all those sites again looking for those that should be deleted. That really sucks.

Here's my current editing stats during the time of this post.

1371 / 371 unique adds / 333 deletes / 207 unreviewed

Key:

1371 is my total number of edits.

371 unique adds is the total number of sites I've added to the directory.

333 deletes is the total number of sites I've deleted from the directory (including those from unreviewed).

207 unreviewed is the number of sites I've taken a look at but decided not to list them nor delete them; they still wait in unreviewed.

Summary:

I've since made 71 edits since my last blog entry, most of them deletes.

As you can see, my deletes are catching up with my adds. That's because I've spent the past 3 days focusing on deleting sites from unreviewed. But, also keep in mind that I'm not credited for over 100 deletions I've made, so my total number of edits is technically over 1500, and my total number of deletes should have surpassed my number of adds by about 100.

This will probably be my last post on the issue since I have other things to do than gripe about my missing edits. I've learned my lesson about using Apollo, or other editor tools, and I'm moving on with my editing life.

*[later editing out almost, but not quite, specifics]