Faster to Reject than to Approve
Having done this for about three years, directory editing (for a real human edited directory) can be time consuming, frustrating, and down right boring. So, to be more efficient at it, you have to come up with some strategies to make the job easier.
The first thing I do is require confirmation email for all submissions. If they don’t do that, its sits in another queue waiting to get deleted. I could go and review those, but why? Let them go, it makes my job easier.
Second thing I do is scan the actual review queue for blatant problems. Poor grammar, foreign language, forbidden sites, totally wrong category, or whatever is obviously bad. I check them off, and reject them all in one click.
The third thing I do is scan the queue again, a little slower this time, looking for more subtle but still unacceptable things. I check them off and clear the queue.
Finally, I start looking at what’s left one by one and review the site. If its all good, its in. If it seems to be a good site and legit, but there is something a little off in the submission, I fix it. If the site sucks, or is just spammy crap, its rejected.
So, rejecting the obvious crap can happen pretty fast. Getting reviewed for approval takes a while longer. It seems to work ok for me.
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