Faster Domain Tagging And Approval
Currently it's taking very long before tag sites become approved if this could be improved.
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"the improvement should be that it takes faster to be approved especially for unpopular websites."Ok, that is not concreate enough, I expected real proposals more in detail. Given the domain tagging process (http://community.opendns.com/domaintagging/faq/), what exactly should be changed to speed up the approval process?
Btw, this is also up to you. You could apply to become a domain tagging moderator...
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You can contact the Support Team https://dashboard.opendns.com/support/ --> "Open a Support Ticket"
They will approve your tag in one or two days.
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"a mechanism that automatically gets it done, once a domain is tagged especially if it's tagged with inappropriate categories."
This isn't going to work. A majority of users simply submit any sites they don't like under porn, just to get it blocked... :(
For many this category is a catch-all for anything they don't like. This is not a joke, but facts, after my experience of 6 years as OpenDNS user. -
I just want to point out that there are no automatic mechanisms. Every submission is reviewed by a human once it reaches a certain threshold. That threshold is determined by the number of votes for/against a particular categorization, the weight of each vote, etc. Certain categories (such as many of the "adult" categories) have a lower threshold then others. Once a tag reaches the established thresholds, it is visible to our moderation community for approval. OpenDNS employees can accelerate this for specific tags/domains.
We are always looking for ways to do this better and faster, but we don't wont to compromise the data in order to do so. If you have specific suggestions, please let us by creating an idea for them.
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Very diplomatic! ;-)
As I said already, it is up to you (and everybody else) to apply as domain tagging moderator. This is the only really reasonable way to speed up the process. So, if you are unhappy and take content filtering very serious, you now know the way to go. Don't be shy!
Any automatisms most likely decrease the quality. Only increased human engagement can improve the speed by retaining a high level of quality.
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Brian, Another two examples
news12.com it was tagged from 2009 it has 6 votes
brooklynpaper.com it was tagged from 2008 it has 16 votesAs mentioned I do see constantly many of those instances of popular sites with a lot of votes going back years ago and still do not have any categories applied to them.
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@ykadmin... To put some perspective in what you are asking... each day over 100,000 new TLDs are registered. What do you think is an appropriate length of time to tag each of those. How many votes should be required to "tag" a site. How do you ensure voting at those levels. What about efficiency? How many OpenDNS users go to "news12" or "brooklynpaper" (6 votes... really?). What tagging priority should those sites receive, in contrast to sites seeing significantly greater OpenDNS traffic/voting.
How many OpenDNS employees and volunteers might you think are able to keep pace with that TLD influx (and those numbers don't count the existing TLDs that change hands daily some of which are repurposed in new ways), and ride herd on the voting process.
I'm sure your familiar with 80/20 principles. They apply here as well. If you're concerned about the 20%, you probably need to invoke your own processes to manage those. That's a reason why OpenDNS accounts offer white/blacklisting. An overlooked tool that every PC user has that can compliment OpenDNS is the HOSTS file.
Tagging will always be "too slow".
Food for thought...
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Here's another example for investigation: https://support.opendns.com/entries/22000745-I-tagged-a-domain-about-two-weeks-ago-and-no-one-has-voted-on-it-How-long-does-it-usually-take-for-t
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One of the things that slow me down is voting on sites that no longer exist. I go through the list, click on the link and find out the site is parked or not accessible. This usually takes a lot of time. One way to reduce the list to go through is to automatically check whether sites still exist and are reachable, or otherwise remove from the list (and maybe keep on a separate list and check again after a while). That way voters waste less time.
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"I go through the list, click on the link and find out the site is parked or not accessible."
Well, for parked domains simply tag them with or vote up for the "Parked Domains" categoriy which is helpful too.
And yes, I agree, for domains generally no longer existent in DNS or no longer found via WHOIS an automatic process could run through to remove those.
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"Another idea"
You are right. Therefore open a new thread in the Idea Bank section, so that we become able to vote on this idea...
It's a good idea! Although you may want to expand on what date you mean, e.g. when the domain was submitted or what. Also, you may want to name a reason about the advantages this would have for the domain tagging system.
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Thanks rotblitz for the feedback. I have added this as a new idea. (https://support.opendns.com/entries/22264669-Sort-undecided-domains-by-date)
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I believe those 9 simple steps is a good start.
1. Every top level domain to have a category
2. Every domain with more than 7 votes to get a category approved
3. A domain with already a category to need 15 votes to get a category approved.
4. Each day the most popular 500 domains with no categories to become catheterized.
5. Redesign the tagging system to be easier to use.
6. Have a separate category for sites which cannot be blocked or voted like opendns.com.
7. Remove all current clotted Moderation sites.
8. Assign responsible individuals to watch out for each category in Moderation.
9. Administrators by just voting on a domain to be approved in that category immediately. -
"1. Every top level domain to have a category"
TLD? E.g. org, com, net, info, biz, mobi, name, ... and all the country TLDs? Why that? Or isn't that what you mean by TLD?
If you do mean this by TLD, you'll be using your always/never block lists."4. Each day the most popular 500 domains with no categories to become catheterized."
Who will be doing and decide this categorization?
"6. Have a separate category for sites which cannot be blocked or voted like opendns.com."
Why this? You can't do anything with that category anyway.
"9. Administrators by just voting on a domain to be approved in that category immediately."
This is there. You open a support ticket.
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