ODP Editor: shadow575

Personal Views and Opinions of a DMOZ Volunteer and BOTW Editor

Posts Tagged ‘update’

URL Updates and Public Suggestions.

Posted by shadow575 on April 24, 2009

Tonight I stepped out of character and worked on public suggestions and URL updates.  Just to make it more interesting, I focused in the Adult section.  Hey someone has to do it.  ;-)

Just a few observations I made today:

  1. Is it really so hard to get somewhat close to the right category?  I a mean come on, I had to move a Spanish Mobile Homes site out of Adult and over to Regional.  <rolls eyes>
  2. Why is that 90% of the update requests I looked at today were just poor attempts to keyword stuff their descriptions?  Oh I re-wrote a few of them that needed it, but only one update request was pretty close to being ok.  I almost sent the submitter an email encouraging them to apply.
  3. Adult Oriented sites are an interesting breed…… :-P

There are a ton of update requests needing processed.  I don’t know why I stumbled into the ones in Adult but that is where my edits lead me tonight, so thats where I went.  I also managed a few minutes over at Resource Zone.  Funny Spam everywhere there too.

Hey did I mention yet that I fell into the world of Twitter?  Well I did, not sure why though.  I seem to be more of a blogger than a tweeter.  I have a couple of  opinions on social networking sites.  My Space appears to be the best tool the FBI every came up with, Facebook is for those of us old guys trying to relieve some of the glory days  and Twitter seems to be a good place for what I imagine to be a lot of lonely people who love to hear themselves talk.  :-)

Yikes, I can see the letters coming in now.  :-) It should be noted however that I am on all three of these occasionally and as I have no followers at all, yet 11 updates in only a couple days being on Twitter I certainly fall under the category of “Must like hearing my self talk”.  The good news is I am following one of those good “Tweeters” so I feel better about having the account.

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Partly Back – Well Sort Of

Posted by shadow575 on July 31, 2008

I am partly back at this point. I have been trying to log in every few days and dedicate a little time to editing. Currently I am working to get back up to speed with some quality control projects, but I have also been dabbling in the Editor requested Reinstatements and New permission lists. I hope to be able to put more and more time back into things as my schedule starts to work its self out.

And finally some good news:

Wanted: Serenity, please, and plenty of it!

Welcome back Mak! I missed you.

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