Domain tagging - how to clean it up and improve the process (my suggestions)

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denis111

December 14, 2017 15:38

I was browsing the domain tagging the other day and noticed that roughly 19/20 domains in the "pornography" category are incorrectly tagged. I'm not sure why it happened, but the outcome is that we now have way too many domains tagged as pornography with most of them tagged incorrectly for whatever reason. As a result, people who want to help by approving pending domains become immediately discouraged and simply go away.

I think it's time to improve the process and clean up current mess. Here is what I suggest:

- Sort all domains in this category so that everything that contains suggestive words comes first. For example, if domain name contains words like "jav", "hentai" etc, it is very likely that this is indeed porn. This way the approval process will be significantly accelerated.

- The second problem is incorrectly tagged domains that are already there. This is also relatively easy to fix. Just an example from the first page. One of the domains here is "wellnesscafe.hu". I opened it and it appears to be some sort of Hungarian online magazine about health. Nothing to do with pornography, whatsoever. This domain was submitted by a fellow named "farmscott". On the same page we see other domains submitted by him - "qm120.com" and "inch.com". Neither is porn. So, what you should do is take all his "pornography" submissions, which are not yet approved, and remove them straight away. The fellow obviously doesn't understand what he's doing, and his submissions have zero value.

This way the number of domains will be reduced to a manageable size, and from this moment the community will start playing a more active role in tagging. 

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  jlefebre December 14, 2017 15:59

  I too wish the domain tagging was actually worth something, but there are moderators like you mentioned running around approving categories that are completely incorrect - causing issues with businesses paying for this product, yet you have to open a support ticket specifying the domain for any action to be taken.

  I was hopeful when I found the domain tagging section, but it's a huge letdown. Finding that there are hidden categories not even displayed in our reporting is also extremely frustrating. 

   

  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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  denis111 December 14, 2017 16:51

  Well, supposedly, if the number of undecided domains is relatively small and users are more involved in the tagging process, the moderating problem should become less pressing. Besides, I hope that at least with some categories, determining the correct tag should be pretty obvious.

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  rotblitz December 15, 2017 14:54

  There have been more such ideas in the past, and you may want to vote them up.

  https://support.opendns.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/220012547

  https://support.opendns.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/220021667

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  denis111 December 15, 2017 15:29

  These are not ideas, but simply statements that the current situation is unacceptable, nothing concrete there. In contrast, my post actually includes very concrete steps that can be taken to change the situation for the better.

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  whoelse January 01, 2018 05:23

  Here is another one.

  https://support.opendns.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/220015047-Add-tool-to-suppress-domains-in-tagging-pages-submitted-by-spammers

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  whoelse January 01, 2018 05:28

  https://support.opendns.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/115010728186-Old-and-incorrectly-tagged-domains

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  __ob January 23, 2018 21:32

  Solid recommendation and suggestions Denis111

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