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Originally Posted by tbarr
Here's how DMOZ edits works:
1. Editor logs out.
2. He adds and/or edits listings.
3. Listings are live seconds later.
4. Editor logs out.
5. Time elapses before he returns to edit again.
The big variable is #5 which is anywhere from minutes to infinity.
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Nope.
1. Submitter follows your advice.
2. Editors logs in
3. Editors decides what source to use for new sites to use today (the suggested pool is just one of many sources)
4. At some stage they may decide to use the suggested sites.
5. They look at the pool of suggested sites - deletes the easy ones and does some other things; maybe review a few with guideline compliant descriptions (they always stand out). Eventually gets to the one the submitter suggested after its waited for a while - as its not the correct category, moves it over to the category to wait all over again
6. Starts to get annoyed at the miss-submitted sites and the crap submitted, so goes to Google to search for some better sites
7. Much for fun at Google and several good sites that were not even submitted were added.
The submitter that followed your advice has waited for an editor to review the site; contributed to annoying the editor; and now is waiting all over again in another category for an editor to get to review the sites there.
If they had suggested to the correct category in the first place, they would be reviewed quicker.
I used to be an editor. I had ~40 categories - only one higher level category was I named as the editor. It was ovious when submitters chose to deliberatly break the guidelines and submit to the higher category. I just moved them to the lower one and left them there for a review later when in the mood --- rarely was I in the mood for those who deliberatly flouted the guidelines.
How do you think any directory (DMOZ or other) should treat those who deliberatly flout the guidelines?
So, hopefully no one will follow your advice unless they want to put themselves at a disadvantage.