swa66 - 2:10 am on Nov 30, 2006 (gmt 0)

Trying to clarify some misconceptions:

- Editors do get somewhat regular updates if they check in on the editor forum (private, not to be quoted publicly) [If they try to login from the main site, they are actually told to check the forums].

- The data used by editors is much and much more than the visible data on the front end or in the rdp. Every action, every change, every reason is recorded. Loosing that data would IMHO cause chaos in the larger areas of the directory as you loose history, loose comments of other editors, loose information and references to why things are done in a certain way, ...
The rdp isn't a viable backup to restart editors from IMHO.

- weeks, months of no updates to the directory are by no means optimal, but those worrying about e.g. Google's use should really ask themselves how often Google actually imports a new rdp. From what I've seen it takes a *long* time for edits to show up on Google's side. [Taking Google as an example, but I doubt other big players download and refresh their production side rdp based content on a weekly basis.]

I see many more that are tangent to this discussion so I'll refrain from addressing them at this time.