ODP editors: greenbuster?

[rcjordan]

I've noticed a few ODP editors touting that they have permissions as a greenbuster. What's that? Sounds like they are to seek out and delist affiliate sites.

[EliteWeb]

Greenbuster privs from my understanding is giving an editor permissions higher up so they can take care of directories higher in the structure to bust the greens (waiting sites) if they wanna rid the affiliates too thats their agenda ;)

[bird]

From another recent thread [webmasterworld.com]:

Greenbuster is a (relatively) new special editing permission, which makes it possible for people to review sites in categories where they wouldn't normally be able to edit. They can then store the resulting listings in a special queue, and a "real" editor with full permissions there will add them after some spot checking. This is a measure to reduce the unreviewed queues in areas where there are not enough editors, while still maintaining the targeted quality

[q_b_p]

If a category has a large number of unreviewed sites, an editor can apply to "Greenbust" in it. This is done when the editor would probibly not be accepted for the "full" category for one reason or another.

[ScottM]

...and, might I add, a good way to practice your editing and 'show your stuff'.

[wolfy]

Exactly, it's a sort of Domz training and editing help too.
I hope they'll publish more sites in this way!!

[q_b_p]

As was noted, the sites go into a special queue...the full cat editor still has to confirm them. I can't tell you more than I've heard...mainly because every time I've tried to apply as a greenbuster, I get full cat privs :)

[choster]

You can find an official description (intended for an audience of editors, although the url is public) at [dmoz.org...] .

[g1smd]

Why 'Greenbuster'?

On the edit side, the stats of the Unreviewed (waiting/new) sites are shown in Green Text.

There is another team, called 'Blankbusters' - these people search the directory for listings with blank descriptions and fix them.

There are other people doing 'Quality Control' like doing a search of the whole directory for spelling mistakes - search for 'teh' and correct it to 'the' and many other silly mistakes that can easily happen.

Sites that have a bad address, are flagged by RobZilla in Red Text - so 'Clearing (or cleaning) the Reds (or RoboReds)' is another term widely used (usually move the site into unreviewed, check it over the next few weeks - if it reappears relist it, if not look on Archive.org / Google to see if it moved; if no luck it eventually gets deleted out of ODP). RoboZilla is currently doing another run, so I guess I'll awake to a batch of reds to fix sometime in the next few days.

Hope that helps with some other common ODP terms.

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[edited by: g1smd at 12:42 am (utc) on Aug. 1, 2002]

[Quadrille]

RoboZilla is currently doing another run ...

Aaaaarrrggh! That's the weekend gone.