>It would be easier to make a case for changing how Yahoo Stores are indexed if I understood the criteria that would be used to make the decision.
No, it wouldn't. It would only be easy to make a case for changing the policy if (by reviewing a sufficient number of sites) you had demonstrated an exceptional ability to handle the kinds of problems that arise. Otherwise, you have neither standing nor interest in the matter.
The number of sites involved, for instance, is not an argument for making exceptions, it is an argument for carefully fitting all those sites into the standard procedure, and a very strong argument AGAINST considering exceptions for individual sites.
At bottom it comes down to: this is, in the judgment of people who have reviewed hundreds of thousands of sites, the easiest way for us to work: and it causes no degradation of service to our users. So that's an end of it. I wouldn't CONSIDER raising the question, I don't have the experience to understand the issues: I've probably not done ten thousand edits in Shopping categories!