do you really need reviewers anymore

[Tommy]

well i never ment they would get listed blindly

the submits would go thru a bunch of filters before getting listed

the filters could check the movies and pics and the # of ads etc etc

with the paid partners my site is very quiet as far as cheaters go

[LowryBigwood]

I bet you could automate it enough where you could get by with 1 reviewer, but I'm not sure about no reviewers. But, I'm not on your linklists' level so I probably don't know what I'm talking about.

[Preacher]

As Lowry knows, dragonlists has two levels of accounts, active & partner.

I've often thought about setting partner accounts to automatically list instead of going into the review bin. I can't remember the last time I rejected a partners freesite, as they build good clean sites and double-check everything. That would cut down my reviews by about 40%.

The thing is I'm very anal about the descriptions, so if I didn't manually review -- even just the partner's sites -- about 50% of the submits would have no punctuation and about the same amount would have sentence fragments.

Is it worth the hassle?..

[LowryBigwood]

Originally Posted by Preacher

As Lowry knows, dragonlists has two levels of accounts, active & partner.

I've often thought about setting partner accounts to automatically list instead of going into the review bin. I can't remember the last time I rejected a partners freesite, as they build good clean sites and double-check everything. That would cut down my reviews by about 40%.

The thing is I'm very anal about the descriptions, so if I didn't manually review -- even just the partner's sites -- about 50% of the submits would have no punctuation and about the same amount would have sentence fragments.

Is it worth the hassle?..

Exactly right Preacher. In fact, I do have my partners set to autolisted but i do surf for quality control.

For me, it saves a lot of time and as you said the partners are pretty good about building quality sites that hardly ever need policing... .02

[virgohippy]

Originally Posted by Tommy

well i never ment they would get listed blindly

I knew exactly what you meant. I don't take you for a fool.

Originally Posted by Tommy

the filters could check the movies and pics and the # of ads etc etc

Seems to me that if you have all this in place, assuming it works right, you could reduce the review work load rather then eliminate it all-together.

I suppose by making the system auto-list, the quality of your site will be dependent on reviewers independent of quantity. With individual submits reviewed before listing the quantity of your site is dependent on reviewers, but quality should stay stable. Does the contrast of the two make sense?

Maybe I'm just a pessimist who thinks that because I can't program my own brain into a machine (yet ) I wouldn't trust any machine to work correctly with the possibility that a bunch of humans might try to abuse it. Then again...

Originally Posted by Tommy

with the paid partners my site is very quiet as far as cheaters go

This is your #1 filter, so I imagine the other filters wouldn't have to catch as much as a site with completely open submits.

[Greenguy]

Originally Posted by Tommy

well i never ment they would get listed blindly

the submits would go thru a bunch of filters before getting listed

the filters could check the movies and pics and the # of ads etc etc

with the paid partners my site is very quiet as far as cheaters go

I can sorta see why you'd think this with the "partner only" thing, but even if I was, I'd still want to have a human look at the site before it was approved.

There's a lot of things that a bot can not see.