Hedir Review : clean or dirty??

baggeroli · Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 11:41 pm Post subject:

1) The date should be November 24.

2) cool!

winterfrost · Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 6:18 pm Post subject:

It was my understanding that a note telling people of the requirements was already on the submission form. I guess putting it on the forum wouldn't hurt, but it isn't going to help these EXISTING submissions because these submitters aren't visiting the forum anyway.

If you want to notify these people before deleting their threads, then send the email already. I really don't understand the delay. What else has to be discussed?

Norah · Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 1:23 am Post subject:

I am planning to drop a mail to all the registered users for partcipation. How about creating a new forum saying inactive submission. If the site did not get a review in last one month it will be moved (using a cron, automatically) to inactive forums. We will run this program every 1st of the month.

Señor COOL · Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 4:02 am Post subject:

What about already-accepted sites?

lakhya · Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Posts: 473 15238 Hedir Points

We can send an automated reply with a brief description of how the system works to any new submitter. We can also send periodic reminders to people who got their site already listed in hedir for participation. Also, moving inactive threads to another forum seems to be a good idea. Feedbacks ?

BTW baggeroli, we have not arrived at the consensus yet for making the review process mandatory. Maybe you would like to open another opinion poll on this? In the meantime , perhaps you would like to rephrase your signature a little bit so that confusion can be avoided ? Wink

baggeroli · Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 10:59 am Post subject:

OK, I'm confused now.

I'm AGAINST mandatory review BEFORE submission. I thought that was a clear lesson learned from the time this was implemented in October/November.

I'm FOR mandatory review AFTER submission. Anyone can submit a site and any site can be reviewed. But for the actual inclusion in the directory, submitter must have reviewed at least 10 sites.

My signature is meant for people who actually react to reviews of their site but apparantly don't know they have to review themselves. I was getting tired of explaining. Any suggestions from a native speaker?

baggeroli · Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 11:13 am Post subject:

AjiNIMC · Joined: 11 Apr 2005 Posts: 516 18600 Hedir Points

Ok since it is not fair to delete all. We can move all the inactive posts to another forum called "inactive submissions" and if there is no response for another 30 days , it will be deleted automatically.

Will it be too harsh? Surely we need to take some action here.

baggeroli · Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 12:41 pm Post subject:

There hasn't been a response for months! In those days, HEDIR rules stated that submitters were obliged to review 10 sites in the first month since registration (is this still the case?). So what's the problem here?

Btw: please don't delete, just move to the rejected pile or all these sites will get submitted again and again. I'm assuming you can't submit the same URL twice??

CTPhil · Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 1:06 pm Post subject:

I favor the old way, reviews before submission. This immediately weeds out the drive-by submitters and spammers and saves other reviewers the trouble of reviewing a site that has no future in the directory. Lets focus our efforts on those who are really serious about being included.

Yes, things weren't humming along the old way, but I can't see that it is better now. Just my 2¢.

Edmond Dantès · Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 3:40 pm Post subject:

AjiNIMC · Joined: 11 Apr 2005 Posts: 516 18600 Hedir Points

Hey Norah can you help us get a system which we can use as review center. We do not worry about the 193 pages, we will use the review control panel to review sites which satisfy the conditions.

Edmond Dantès · Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 3:13 pm Post subject:

Spam in this DIRECTORY before 24-11-2005???

NO Shocked

Galaxy-Hosts · Joined: 22 Jan 2006 Posts: 53 1856 Hedir Points

Well I have an idea, but it would only work if hedir is considering adding mods sometime in the future. But assuming that lakhya might be considering this here goes.
1. I think all these submissioins should be dumped in a second pile seperate from all submissions made after Nov 24.

2. Anyone being considered for moderator should be required to spend a period of time moderating that stack. (1 month sounds good to me) They should be required to delete all posts that did not follow the rules and refer all legitimate posts to the main forums with a reveiw.

3. After their month trial period is up Hedir will have a good idea as to the quality of their work and their level of dedication.

If lakhya is not considering bringing any new mods on board I like 2 ideas and think they should be combined. Redhex's idea, send an email to all registered users and let them know if their site was submitted before that date they will need to resubmit. And Adam's idea to add the notification to the top of the submission form.

baggeroli · Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 5:45 pm Post subject: