If someone submits a URL to a particular category, does the editor of that category receive an e-mail telling him that a site has been suggested? Or does the editor only find out about that submission if and when he happens to log in to that category?
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kokopeli's reply implies that when an editor logs in, all sites waiting to be reviewed are automatically displayed on the screen. However jjwill's reply suggests that the editor can choose whether or not this information is displayed on the screen when they log in. Can you please clarify exactly what happens as I am getting confused.
kokopeli's reply implies that when an editor logs in, all sites waiting to be reviewed are automatically displayed on the screen. However jjwill's reply suggests that the editor can choose whether or not this information is displayed on the screen when they log in. Can you please clarify exactly what happens as I am getting confused.
It's a complete mystery to me why you're asking, but both answers were essentially correct. Any editor with access to the category will see automatically that some suggestion(s) await review. It requires an action on the editor's part to see the details of the suggestions.
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Well, the editor does not really know a new site has been suggested, he only knows how many sites have been suggested. So unless the editor happens to remember what the count was yesterday, it's not going to be obvious that a new suggestion just arrived. On the other hand, it's not really that important to most editors that anything is new.
In some areas I actually remember pretty much remember what the counts are, and will notice new stuff, so I will go and look at it, to make sure it's waiting it the right category, a large percentage are grosslly misplaced or are spam and get either deleted or moved to another editor.
For an editor who only has a couple of categories, so his potential work load is very low, and likes to stay on top of things and had no sites waiting to be reviewed, it will be very obvious that something has just been added.
Since there is no email notification of any of this, all of this depends on the editor logging in and looking at the counts.
In some areas I actually remember pretty much remember what the counts are, and will notice new stuff, so I will go and look at it, to make sure it's waiting it the right category, a large percentage are grosslly misplaced or are spam and get either deleted or moved to another editor.
For an editor who only has a couple of categories, so his potential work load is very low, and likes to stay on top of things and had no sites waiting to be reviewed, it will be very obvious that something has just been added.
Since there is no email notification of any of this, all of this depends on the editor logging in and looking at the counts.
I think maybe the confusion is about what "logging in" entails. Most active editors have privileges to edit in many different categories. When we log in, we see a list of the (highest-level) categories we can edit in, with a summary of possible activites (including NUMBER of unreviewed sites.)
But we don't see any unreviewed submittals till we (1) go to a particular category, and (2) choose to view the unreviewed submittals IN THAT CATEGORY.
The underlying assumption -- that editor activity is (in any way, form, or fashion) driven by submittals -- is perhaps the source of the greatest confusion.
Editors don't log on because there are submittals. Editors log on because they want to build the directory 'right now', and any editor who wants that badly enough, is sure to be able to find many places where the directory could be built -- WITHOUT any help. (This isn't to say submittals aren't welcome, it isn't to say they don't help -- they are and they can. But you can't help someone when they're not working, or they're working on something else.)
In perspective, submittals aren't the center of the universe. They're the smallest thing you can do and still call yourself helping. The center of the universe is some particular volunteer's compulsive sense that some particular category is really serving the surfer much less well than it might.
But we don't see any unreviewed submittals till we (1) go to a particular category, and (2) choose to view the unreviewed submittals IN THAT CATEGORY.
The underlying assumption -- that editor activity is (in any way, form, or fashion) driven by submittals -- is perhaps the source of the greatest confusion.
Editors don't log on because there are submittals. Editors log on because they want to build the directory 'right now', and any editor who wants that badly enough, is sure to be able to find many places where the directory could be built -- WITHOUT any help. (This isn't to say submittals aren't welcome, it isn't to say they don't help -- they are and they can. But you can't help someone when they're not working, or they're working on something else.)
In perspective, submittals aren't the center of the universe. They're the smallest thing you can do and still call yourself helping. The center of the universe is some particular volunteer's compulsive sense that some particular category is really serving the surfer much less well than it might.
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Exactly, it's not that the editor just logs in to see if new suggestions have arrived, he/she logs in to work on the directory. That may involve among many things:
Searching the internet for new sites to add to a category
Reorganizing the category hierarchy structure
Adding links from one category to another
Monitoring existing listings for dead sites and changed content
Revising old descriptions/titles that do not follow current guidlines
Adding new sub-categories
Looking for abuse by other editors
Rewriting category descriptions (not site descriptions)
Looking for spam and duplicate site listings
Checking other editors work for quality
Working on group projects with other editors
Searching for other categories of interest to work on
Searching the internet for new sites to add to a category
Reorganizing the category hierarchy structure
Adding links from one category to another
Monitoring existing listings for dead sites and changed content
Revising old descriptions/titles that do not follow current guidlines
Adding new sub-categories
Looking for abuse by other editors
Rewriting category descriptions (not site descriptions)
Looking for spam and duplicate site listings
Checking other editors work for quality
Working on group projects with other editors
Searching for other categories of interest to work on