Do ODP editors do anything? I submitted a new site over an hour ago, and nothing has happened. WAKEY WAKEY! Welcome to the brave new world of the internet where things move fast. Things happen NOW! Not tomorrow, not mañana or whenever it suits your lazy selves. Move it!
Do you have a streamlined competent process for new submissions? Is there an immediate email to ***all*** editors with relevant permissions, exhorting them to review things straight away. Get on with it! Or is this a sit-back-and-hope-for-whatever type of operation, in which somebody might or might not show up to work whenever it suits their drinking schedule? Allowing that kind of stuff may be acceptable in France, but that's hardly a commendation? Or does the ODP really encourage idleness and socialism?
What is needed is proper straight-through processing. On receipt of a submission (and yes, I've read these fora and understand that you want us users to think of it as a 'suggestion' -- pah!) the machine should send an email to all editors with permission in that category. The email should show the full submission ('suggestion'), with title and description and have a one-click approval "That suggestion is great and can be listed as is". Or, even better, the email could have a "disapprove" button ("Hold this submission, it needs some further work") and all submissions ('suggestions') not explicitly disapproved within 20 (twenty) minutes would be automatically and irrevocably approved. And if you're not willing to do that for all submissions ('suggestions') you should at least do it for a list of approved submitters (suggesters'?), of course including me because all my submissions ('suggestions') have perfect grammar and spelling and accurately and fairly describe the site.
Come on! People have businesses and livelihoods and employees and families dependent on the ODP, and you people are just so slow. My dog goes hungry while you twiddle your thumbs. Get organized!
:winkandbi
Do you have a streamlined competent process for new submissions? Is there an immediate email to ***all*** editors with relevant permissions, exhorting them to review things straight away. Get on with it! Or is this a sit-back-and-hope-for-whatever type of operation, in which somebody might or might not show up to work whenever it suits their drinking schedule? Allowing that kind of stuff may be acceptable in France, but that's hardly a commendation? Or does the ODP really encourage idleness and socialism?
What is needed is proper straight-through processing. On receipt of a submission (and yes, I've read these fora and understand that you want us users to think of it as a 'suggestion' -- pah!) the machine should send an email to all editors with permission in that category. The email should show the full submission ('suggestion'), with title and description and have a one-click approval "That suggestion is great and can be listed as is". Or, even better, the email could have a "disapprove" button ("Hold this submission, it needs some further work") and all submissions ('suggestions') not explicitly disapproved within 20 (twenty) minutes would be automatically and irrevocably approved. And if you're not willing to do that for all submissions ('suggestions') you should at least do it for a list of approved submitters (suggesters'?), of course including me because all my submissions ('suggestions') have perfect grammar and spelling and accurately and fairly describe the site.
Come on! People have businesses and livelihoods and employees and families dependent on the ODP, and you people are just so slow. My dog goes hungry while you twiddle your thumbs. Get organized!
:winkandbi