It's been 1 week. What have I been doing with my new permission? pt. 3

Final part of my 3 part series.

It's only been about 1 and a half weeks since I got my higher permissions and I'm already getting bored and think about applying for another category. I had a category all mapped out about 1 week ago, but now I've completely changed course (and mood) and went for a completely different category, one that I have experience editing in. I even found three sites in which to apply. So, now, I'm just waiting for the best time to apply to this new category. Maybe I'll try this weekend or sometimes next week. This time I'm applying to the category to gain more experience so I can gain "more" permissions in it. As I've said in my very first post, I'm a very ambitious lady when it comes to Dmoz. I don't want to be stuck editing one category here and one category there. I want to move up. I'll decided what I want to do probably by this weekend. Hopefully, my mood won't change before this weekend comes. My editing is ruled by my mood.

What I Like And Dislike About Editing

Since I've gotten my new permissions I've learned a little about what I like doing as an editor.

Updates: I like. Updates are so much fun and takes very little time. I've heard that most updates are rejected, but for most of the updates I've come across I've taken the time to rereview the site and approve the update - just not exactly how the site's owner wanted it.

Reds: I hate. Reds are something I haven't bothered with since my new permission. I've handled a few reds in my hayday, and I don't like them. Firstly, I should tell you what a red is. A red is a link that is flagged by Robozilla (the Dmoz link checker) as being a dead link and the site is removed from the publics view and it's marked with the color red on our dashboard to distinguish it from the unreviewed and updates; updates also have it's own color to distinguish it from the other sites waiting for review. With reds you have to check the link and if it's working then you can re-list the site, if it's not then you have to take the time to try to find the current domain, and, if you can't, then you can delete it or keep it in unreviewed with the hopes that it'll come back online. The only thing is that you should wait about 2 weeks to see if the site will become working again before you delete it. Something like that. I steer clear of reds, and I'll be the first to tell you that I'm not going to deal with reds anytime soon.

Re-reviewing sites: I hate. I hate re-reviewing sites. It's already been reviewed once, so why review them again? Unfortunately, that has to happen because so many sites change or go dead. It takes up too much of my valuable time to review sites, and the only reason why I do it is because it's part of being an editor.

Approving Greenbusts Greenbusting is when an editor requests a large category but may not have experience to edit in it unattended. That is, with every site they review they'll have to get a more experienced editor to approve it before it'll be listed in the directory. That means the approving editor will have to review the site too, so the site will get two reviews by two different people. Again, it goes back to reviewing. I hate re-reviewing sites. I've only come across one greenbust since I've become an editor and I approved it. Unfortunately, it was from a few years earlier. So, if I do come across a greenbust then I won't let it sit there for a few years because I'll take a look at it as quickly as I look at updates. It would really suck if I were to apply for greenbusting privileges and then not have anyone take an interest in my greenbusts and it waits for years for approval by another editor. I wouldn't want my greenbusts to wait for years, so I'm not going to let anyone else's greenbust wait that long either.

Out of all the things that's involved in editing my favorite part is looking at updates. Second would be reviewing sites for the first time and adding them to the directory. A far off third would be moving sites to another category. Then there's greenbusting, reds, and re-reviewing sites that all come in last, but I do it because that's what I have to.

Anther thing that happened during my first week with higher permissions was getting mail from a submitter. Wow, I wasn't expecting, but I was happy to finally have someone send me feedback. At first I thought that a senior editor was sending me feedback to tell me what a bad job I was doing, but my fears were quickly quelled when I opened the e-mail. It was from someone who wanted to know if I could list a site in Turkish (?). I happily responded to my first ever feedback from a submitter with a No, you'll have to submit it to the correct category under World. I even gave him a link to the category. I was quite happy after receiving e-mail. My higher permissions is already making me feel helpful.

Now, for my current editing stats at the time of writing and publishing this post.

1300 / 342 unique adds / 304 deletes / 198 unreviewed

I'll go through and explain what all the numbers mean:

The 1300 is the total number of my edits. When I applied for higher permissions a little over a week ago my edits were less than 900, so, as you can see, I've really been editing the passed week and a half.

The 342 Unique Adds is the total number of sites I've added to the directory.

The 304 deletes is the total number of sites I've deleted from the directory. I don't know if that number includes sites I've deleted from unreviewed or only the listed sites I've deleted.

The 198 unreviewed is the number of sites I've looked at in unreviewed, but decided not to list for one reason or another, but I also didn't delete them. That number is actually higher, though, because I usually just hit the back button and when I do that it's not counted as my having looked at it (I think).

As you can see, those numbers haven't changed since my last post because these posts were published back-to-back.