Category Editor's Page

Fri, 04/25/2008 - 07:54 — gizmo.richards

Category Editors

Category Editors are responsible for maintaining the reviews of one or more software classes on this site.

Category Editors are privileged users who have have the power to approve, disapprove, or modify contributions by registered users. They can also contribute content themselves without the need for moderation.

How to Become a Category Editor

All Category Editors have generously volunteered their time to help support this free website.
We welcome knowledgable users who would like join us in this enterprise.

You don't need to be an expert to become a category editor. You should, however, be an experienced user and have good general familiarity with Windows software. You also need to be prepared to dedicate at least 15 minutes each week to the project.

If you are interested, first check this list of vacant categories currently requiring an editor. Alternatively, you can contribute by creating and maintaining a new category.

I also suggest you read the "Responsibilities of Category Editors" section below.

If you have the time to contribute, then contact Elizabeth, our volunteer editorial co-ordinator with a little bit about your background and in particular, whether you have any commercial affiliation with products in this category.

If you are currently logged in, you can contact Elizabeth directly by clicking here, if not then click here.

Responsibilities of Category Editors

The primary responsibility of Category Editors is to ensure the quality, accuracy, and currency of the review sections which they oversee.

Very few Category Editors need to write the reviews in their section from scratch, although there is nothing stopping them from doing so.

More commonly, Category Editors inherit a set of reviews from a previous editor. Their initial task is to bring these reviews up-to-date, ensure they are in the correct format, and then change or add content as needed.

Editors are completely free to change reviews based on their own knowledge, but normally this is in response to suggestions made by site visitors.

Responding to visitor suggestions is an important part of a Category Editor's responsibilities.

Editors are expected to login to the site at least once a week to check and respond to any new comments, and to approve/reject any online edits made by site visitors. This may take anything from a minute to 15 minutes depending on the activity level for the particular software category.

Editors are not expected to respond to user comments individually, although they may if they wish. Similarly, Editors are not expected to enter into correspondence with users who have made wiki-style edits, although again they may do so if they so wish.

Editors are expected to delete any out-of-date or unwanted comments. That is, comments that are inaccurate , contain commercial material, or do not comply with the site rules (see below.)

At least once a month editors are expected to update their categories by incorporating into their reviews comments and suggestions made by users. This may involve downloading and testing suggested products. This make take anything from fifteen minutes to an hour or more, depending on the number of suggestions made.

So if you budget for a average time commitment of one to two hours per month you will be close to the mark, bearing in mind that in individual months this could be greater or less.

If you have the time to contribute, then contact Gizmo by clicking here.

Site Rules

In assuming the role of Category Editor you agree to abide by the following site rules:

No swearing, and no obscene, blasphemous, or libelous content.
No content that promotes or encourages illegal activities.
You will maintain a civil relationship with other editors and not abuse or vilify them or their work
You will not use your reviews, comments or forum postings to promote products or services for your own financial gain other than as permitted by this site's back linking and self promotion policy.
All material you contribute will be original and not in violation of another author's copyright.
You retain copyright to any original content you contribute, but agree to assign to this site and its successors perpetual and unlimited license to use your content free of charge.
You promise to be good and shower daily :>

Any violation of the site rules or other inappropriate conduct may result in your Category Editor account being cancelled. If this happens you can discuss it with Gizmo, but his decision is final and is without appeal or other recourse.

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