gpmgroup - 8:31 pm on Jul 12, 2007 (gmt 0)

The simplest answer would be to profile submitters.

Create a whole new class of submitter accounts. Sure there would be a range of profiles from spammers to scholars. But the editors would quickly learn which profiles were contained the valuable nuggets on a regular basis. - Far more efficient than wading through an open spam ridden queue day in day out.

In fact if the queues contain as much toxic sludge as some of the editors suggest its not surprising editors choose not to visit the queues very often.

To anyone with a genuine interest in the subject matter they are editing queues with lots of nuggets on relevant sites would be far more interesting/appealing/satisfying (not to mention more efficient use of time) than manually searching or surfing for sites.