Reds, Greens, and Purples, oh my! - DMOZ

Okay, so since I'm mostly likely the ONLY active editor in one of the categories I edit I've reluctantly taken care of most of the update requests, most of the greenbusts, and even a few reds.
What do all these colors mean, you ask? Okay, I'll happily tell you.

Reds are the sites that have been removed from the live directory by an automated tool. An editor has to hand check the site to make sure its working again before relisting. Usually, a site will become a red if its a parked page, 404, 403, or one of the many other numbers :-D. They are referred to as reds because of the color they will appear on the editor's dashboard.

Greens are the unreviewed sites. Sites that are suggested by the public will appear green on our dashboard. Greens also include sites that other editors send to the category's unreviewed. To appear as a green a site must be in unreviewed. But, not all sites in unreviewed are greens. ;-)

Purples are the update requests. Whenever you send in an update request for a listed site, such as to request a change in category, title, description, or URL it will appear in a purple color on our dashboard.

Greenbusts also appear in a separate color on the dashboard. It looks like a form of green. In fact, its hard to tell a greenbust from the greens if there are no actual greens in the category and only the greenbust awaiting approval.

Update requests, reds, and greens will all appear in the unreviewed section when an editor enters the category. Greenbusts are not in unreviewed, but are listed, but hidden from the public. I actually realized that I was unreviewing a greenbust when I moved it to a different category.

So, any way, I didn't feel like dealing with the update requests and had hoped that another editor would come through and take a look at them., but I was wrong. What was I thinking when I'm the virtually the only editor who's actively editing the category. There were about 16 update requests waiting for review. I managed to handle all of them but 3. Some update requests asked for removal of their listing, some for updates of descriptions and URLs. Most I probably granted, and I did turn down an odd number, propably around 2-3. Most of the times the update requests for this particular category are reasonable.

Greenbusts are a funky area for me. I don't like reviewing them, but if I were a greenbuster, which I am, then I would want someone to approve/reject my greenbusts as quickly as possible. Eventually, I reluctantly reviewed the greenbusts, too. I think there were around 7 for the category and now there are two left.

Even though I admit to loving the submission and working through them I also have to admit that I haven't been reviewing them lately. I've been listing sites I come across on my own. Sometimes through unrelated searches and other times from forums I visit or stumble upon. I mainly haven't reviewed submitted sites because I'm tired of looking reviewing sites that have nothing to do with the category, plus, I'm looking for something that has a near guidelines compliant title and desciption. Most don't, and those I overlook. Now, I did come across a site that I listed yesterday that was written very well and guidelines compliant. I only had to change one thing and that was a couple of words that shouldn't have been capitalized.

Okay, this might seem like an abrupt stop to my post, but darn I'm tired! Work and finals tomorrow and I'm getting some sleep.

Current stats:

3118 / 922 unique adds / 811 deletes / 545 unreviewed

Ha! I just realized while posting this that I'm getting closer to 1,000 adds. Now, that's something to work toward! Plus, the gap between my adds and deletes is steadily getting bigger. ;-)

This post isn't proofread because I'm too darn tired.