Again, what a good question! You're becoming very good at reading my mind.
Generally, anything and everything. We talk about certain sites, forums, and blogs. Sometimes it's a question of where it should be listed, if it should be listed, and even if it should be deleted. Sometimes editors talk about random daily or personal stuff. We also talk about categories and whether they should be deleted or merged with similar category. New categories are also discussed. So, if an editor is new to creating categories then they can propose it on the forum and get other editors opinions on it.
Guidelines are discussed. As you can imagine, Dmoz is pretty diverse and editors hold a wide-range of opinions, so it's not uncommon to have editors disagree. In fact, it's hard to get a 100% of editors to agree on something.
These are just a few things editors discuss on the internal forum.
This post isn't proofread because I'm too freaking tired...
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Tuesday, November 03, 2009
What I do while I'm logged into Dmoz?
What a great question! I swear, you're just reading my mind when it comes to what I want to write about.
Well, it goes a little something like this:
1) I turn on my beautiful cotton-candy pink Gateway laptop.
2) I log onto the Internet via dial-up.
Oopps. You don't want to know the gritty details.
When I log into Dmoz, I log into the dashboard. I have it as a favorite on my computer so I can go straight to it. Same with the internal forums. I look at the numbers for the categories in which I edit and decide what I want to do. I also look for update request. I used to like processing those, but not anymore. I've seen update requests site in the queue for as long as nine-months.
I then decide whether I want to look through a few random categories. I have my favorites that I visit every so often. Sometimes I might go through unreviewed listing sites that are listed elsewhere in the directory. Those types of sites are easier to list because they've already been reviewed by a, hopefully, competent editor, though not always. Sometimes I might go through and pick a random site or two to review and list, or delete. Then, I might go through the unreviewed and delete all the Red sites unless I feel they need a re-review. I usually clunk out if I try to review more than one site because it just takes too darn long. Then I might go to the internal forum and read one or two threads that catch my attention and then back to my dashboard. Lastly, but not leastly, I might look at my profile and think of ways in which to improve it, or look at it just because it's so beautiful. Hahah. Obviously, this is pretty boring, but it's a typical schedule for me as of late.
This post isn't proofread because I'm so darn tired.
Well, it goes a little something like this:
1) I turn on my beautiful cotton-candy pink Gateway laptop.
2) I log onto the Internet via dial-up.
Oopps. You don't want to know the gritty details.
When I log into Dmoz, I log into the dashboard. I have it as a favorite on my computer so I can go straight to it. Same with the internal forums. I look at the numbers for the categories in which I edit and decide what I want to do. I also look for update request. I used to like processing those, but not anymore. I've seen update requests site in the queue for as long as nine-months.
I then decide whether I want to look through a few random categories. I have my favorites that I visit every so often. Sometimes I might go through unreviewed listing sites that are listed elsewhere in the directory. Those types of sites are easier to list because they've already been reviewed by a, hopefully, competent editor, though not always. Sometimes I might go through and pick a random site or two to review and list, or delete. Then, I might go through the unreviewed and delete all the Red sites unless I feel they need a re-review. I usually clunk out if I try to review more than one site because it just takes too darn long. Then I might go to the internal forum and read one or two threads that catch my attention and then back to my dashboard. Lastly, but not leastly, I might look at my profile and think of ways in which to improve it, or look at it just because it's so beautiful. Hahah. Obviously, this is pretty boring, but it's a typical schedule for me as of late.
This post isn't proofread because I'm so darn tired.
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