To cut down on volume of erroneus submissions and increase the quality of the database, implement an expire feature to submitted domains. After a domain is submitted for domain tagging, if it is idle or gets no attention for a specified period of time, expire it and delete it from the database.
This will help create a higher quality database with less stuff to have to weed through.
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This will help create a higher quality database with less stuff to have to weed through.
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written by marcchabot 623 days ago
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one way to work around all of those LOW VALUE domains, that is domains nobody visits, would be to have the capability to filter the display of domain to vote and review by user.
if you can filter out the garbage domains sumitted by user abc you can vote on domain with real value (really visited by users)
Marc
actually since opendns already incorporates their dns stats with domain tagging in their top sites feature, they could enable an option that would be like "Show me sites that need votes that are in the top 50th percentile and above", etc and stuff like that. also the ability to see sites that need 1 more vote would be cool, to help finish them off to move them to a decision.
written by marcusburge 620 days ago
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Those commenting on this should check out the submission at
http://ideabank.opendns.com/story.php?title=Uncategorized_Sites-1
and see if this matches what you are looking for, with the "top count sites" being prioritized.
I agree. It seems there are many who sit around all day and just throw sites in for blocking - pretty soon we'll get weather.com and that will be all.
Yeah i agree. I don't know if some people are just bored or what. I noticed earlier this evening that 'example.com' is tagged with almost every category available. 'example.com' is an RFC 2606 reserved second level domain. It isn't valid and never will be. So i don't see how it can be porn, govt, a blog, chat, a proxy etc all in once. Someone clearly has way too much time on their hands, or is trying to undermine the system.
... or, someone is reading the forums, etc. and seeing some reference to pornography at example.com and rather than checking it out, makes the submission?
I disagree with this overall concept. There are sooo many domains to sort through for tagging that a great many will be lost before they get enough votes for tagging and will need to be resubmitted.
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You may be thinking of the same fellow I noticed, the one who was dumping a HUGE number of domains (over 70,000!) into the "Health" category. But it looked to me like most of those were valid.
I don't think the problem is the high volume of domains. I think it's that the domains are not being organized and prioritized in a helpful way. If they could be sorted by existing number of votes, number of hits on the domain from OpenDNS generally, or something like that, that would be better.