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Acknowledgments The authors of this document wish to note their grateful appreciation to the authors and past maintainers of the original Dmoz FAQ. The information and structure found herein is a direct reflection their hard work and intuitiveness, and we hope that the members of the Chef Moz Restaurant Guide do them justice in the formation and continuation of this version.


1.0 General 1.1 What do I get in return for being part of the Chef Moz Restaurant Guide? 1.2 What features are planned to be added in the near future? 1.3 Who owns the copyright to the Chef Moz Restaurant Guide? 1.4 How can you expect to effectively coordinate thousands of volunteers to edit a web directory? Won't it be a mess? 1.5 These safeguards won't protect against .... 1.6 Who are the staff members of Chefmoz? 1.7 Can editors resign at any time? I have some free time now but I'm not sure about later. 1.8 I was an editor, but my name doesn't appear on the category page anymore. Why not?


2.0 Editing 2.1 How do I edit restaurants? 2.2 What if the town/city I want to maintain doesn't exist in Chef Moz? 2.3 What if the town/city I want to edit already exists, or already has an editor? 2.4 Can a town/city have more than one editor? 2.5 Some of the text next to my category is red and green. Why? 2.6 Why can't I find my edits when I search for them? 2.7 I saw another site on the web that has a guide just like Chef Moz. Is it okay to use the reviews from there for Chef Moz?


3.0 Descriptions 3.1 Can I change a submitted description? An existing description? A link's title? 3.2 Do I have to list this review? I strongly disagree with its expressed view! 3.3 What should site titles and descriptions look like?


4.0 Editors Dashboard 4.1 What do I put in the request to be editor for another category box? 4.2 Why would I need to go to an editor's profile page? 4.3 Where does the editor support/feedback link go to? Who gets the mail? 4.4 What is the resign as editor of a category link? I'm almost scared to touch it! 4.5 The Tools for Editors link has a star next to it. Why? 4.6 The Tools for Editors link takes me to some strange page called the dmoz open directory project. What is that? 4.7 How can I find the E-mail address of the person who submitted a URL?


5.0 Meta/Editall/Staff 5.1 What is the list of meta-editors all about? In fact, what is a meta editor? What is a Root editor? 5.2 What is an editall and what can they do? 5.3 Who has editall access? 5.4 How can I become an editall? 5.5 What should I do if I have a problem with another editor?


6.0 The Forum 6.1 Posting a new forum topic. 6.2 Posting a forum reply. 6.3 What behavior is expected of me and how may I expect others to act toward me in the fora? 6.4 My topic is really, really important! Shouldn't I post it to every forum so people will read it? 6.5 Why is the forum forcing me to use my horizontal scroll bar to scroll the window left and right? 6.6 What does TOD mean? 6.7 How do I "splat!" someone? 6.8 How can I make smiley faces in the forum? 6.9 What do all these abbreviations mean in the forums? 6.10 How can I edit my posts? 6.11 How can I make hypertext links in the threads? 6.12 Does forum email notification work? 6.13 Will it let in people who aren't supposed to be able to read the forums, if someone puts a link to a forum thread outside the forums? 6.14 I have a bug to report, or a suggestion for improving an existing feature, or adding a new,feature to the Chef Moz Restaurant Guide. Whom do I contact? 6.15 What if I want to make a change within my category, but I have other editors who are also editing in that city/state/country? Do I just go ahead and make the change? What if one of the editors is inactive, or hasn't edited in a long time? Whom do I contact?


7.0 Just the FAQs 7.1 Who can add to/modify this FAQ? 7.2 Where can I go to discuss changes to this FAQ? 7.3 What is the history of this FAQ? 7.4 What is the best way to refer someone to the FAQ when they ask a question I know is answered there?


1.0 Editing 1.1 What do I get in return for being part of the Chef Moz Restaurant Guide? As a Chef Moz editor, you are responsible for specific categories (towns or cities, states, or countries) that you have been accepted into. You will be able to edit submissions by the public, correcting spelling, grammar and sentence structure, personally add to the directory by including restaurants from your local area, reviewing them yourself, or simply listing them for others to review and otherwise maintaining the category to ensure it represents a top-notch part of the directory. You will also be able to interact in a very unique community of editors that meet in the forums to discuss issues that affect the cities and countries in which they edit and the directory as a whole. And you will find a host of new and friendly people to call friends!


1.2 What features are planned to be added in the near future? We're adding features to the core set of editor functions, and this will continue throughout. Developing a system to allow thousands of editors to work together on a project of this scale is a daunting task, and we have a number of organization and coding challenges to face. Our vision for Chef Moz goes beyond creating the most comprehensive list of reviews on the web! And your input can help!


1.3 Who owns the copyright to the Chef Moz Restaurant Guide? Editors and people submitting reviews retain rights to their own material, but Chef Moz can use it too. When they submit information to Chef Moz, they grant Chef Moz a nonexclusive right to use or modify material they submit as necessary for the benefit of the directory. Chef Moz/Dmoz has a compilation copyright on this directory. Our goal is not just to provide the best Internet restaurant directory possible, but to build an online community of editors as well. We need to provide a structure and forum which will help avoid future problems during growth of the directory and the number of editors involved, while ensuring consistent editorial control, to the extent possible.


1.4 How can you expect to effectively coordinate thousands of volunteers to edit a web directory? Won't it be a mess? Chef Moz will have more entropy and anarchy than the equivalent centrally-run catalog. But it will also be much, much larger. And this vast army of human reviewers will provide a much superior directory to that produced by a small professional staff or single individual web site. Editors will not always agree, but you will be able to count on them for good suggestions. Chef Moz will provide a hierarchical organization for ensuring that editors are acting responsibly, and to screen new editor applicants. The overwhelming majority of editors are responsible, helpful and constructive individuals. Rollback and review mechanisms will allow the actions of any malicious editors to be contained. Chef Moz's volunteer staff will prove to be more scalable, adaptable and able to respond faster than other web indexing systems. The volunteer-run Editor Mediation tool will send any complaints about an editor to an experienced neutral editall, who will try to resolve the problem.


1.5 These safeguards won't protect against .... And we won't try. Chef Moz believes in taking an optimistic view of human nature and the desire to create. Addressing all possible problems before they occur is counterproductive. They will be addressed if and when they occur.


1.6 Who are the staff members of Chefmoz? Rich Skrenta - Engineering Manager. Autumn Looijen - Most of the code. Chris Tolles - Marketing. Bryn Dole - Search. Jeremy Wenokur - Business Development.


1.7 Can editors resign at any time? I have some free time now but I'm not sure about later. This is not a problem. Any effort put into Chef Moz will improve it, even if it is reviewing only a few restaurants or adding a few entries in your town using your local Yellow Pages! If you cannot continue to participate as an editor, someone else will be able to take over your category and build on the work you began.


1.8 I was an editor, but my name doesn't appear on the category page anymore. Why not? If you can still log on and edit in all your other categories it may be that you inadvertently removed yourself from the category. Go to the Meta-editors forum and post about the problem in the most current "Special Circumstances" topic. Then go reapply for the category again. If you can still edit in the category, but your name doesn't show up, that's a bug and you need to post about the problem in the Bugs & Features forum.


2.0 EDITING QUESTIONS 2.1 How do I edit restaurants? The answer to this question can be found at the beginning of the Chef Moz Guidelines, via the link on your dashboard. You can also access these at The Chef Moz Guidelines Page.


2.2 What if the town/city I want to maintain doesn't exist in Chef Moz? When you "add a restaurant" for a town/city that doesn't exist in the directory, it automatically creates that city's category for you!


2.3 What if the town/city I want to edit already exists, or already has an editor? No problem. You can still sign up and pitch in! Many larger [and even smaller!] towns can benefit from your contribution. Don't be scared off from applying to edit in a category simply because there is another editor.


2.4 Can a town/city have more than one editor? Yes. This is quite common with larger cities.


2.5 Some of the text next to my category is red and green. Why? These are special indicator icons which represent information you added for the restaurant. The red symbols are described as follows D = Delivery. You indicated the establishment will deliver food. T = Takeout. You indicated that food may be ordered specifically to be picked up for consumption elsewhere. W = Web Page. You indicated the restaurant has a web page. M = Online Menu. ... and the menu is accessible from there. ! = Unedited. This indicates a listing which has been placed into the directory, probably from the public side, and needs to be looked at to make sure it matches our Guidelines. The green symbols are described as follows $ = These indicate the relative price of a meal at the restaurant. A legend is located on the upper right side of each city screen as a memory aid.


2.6 Why can't I find my edits when I search for them? The search database is rebuilt once per night. Edits that you make will be visible in the search feature the next day.


2.7 I saw another site on the web that has a guide just like Chef Moz. Is it okay to use the reviews from there for Chef Moz? Sure. Just go to the city and link to the guide using the "Add Link to Another Online City Guide" option. You may also link to a restaurant's reviews on the restaurant's edit form, using the "Outside Reviews" box. However, you cannot copy and paste the description or reviews from other restaurant guides into chefmoz; that would be copyright infringement, and you could lose your editing privileges.


3.0 Descriptions 3.1 Can I change a submitted description? An existing description? A link's title?


3.2 Do I have to list this review? I strongly disagree with its expressed view! This is a volunteer organization. You are not required to do anything you don't want to do. If there is a review you disagree with, contact two or more local editors and discuss whatever problems you have. Just because a review doesn't meet your personal criteria is no reason it shouldn't be listed, but sometimes reviews may be submitted which are so far removed from any previous ratings that they may be suspect. Whatever you do, don't just delete it. It may be a valid review!


3.3 What should site titles and descriptions look like? There are no rigid rules about titles; it should relate to the restaurant it describes, and hopefully should encourage people to read the description. If you cannot think of an appropriate title, please reenter the name of the restaurant. A description is not a review, and should be as objective as possible. Remember that people will read your description before the review, so try to give enough information to help them choose where to eat. Try to avoid repeating information you have recorded elsewhere on the form, but do use it to expand on "tick box" items. For example, is the view really spectacular? Was it service slow or fast and friendly? Was the menu very extensive? Was the music too loud?


4.0 The Editors Dash 4.1 What do I put in the request to be editor for another category box? Make sure you include the parent category, the state category and the city category, separated by forward slashes or colons [/ or :]. An example of this would be, for instance, if I wanted to apply to edit Brisbane, Australia. I would type: Australia/QLD/Brisbane A preferred method would be to go to the public side, find the category you wish to edit, copy the category line, and then paste it into the request box, replacing the colons [:] with slashes [/].


4.2 Why would I need to go to an editor's profile page? An editor's profile page provides you with information about that editor, including their editing summary, the categories they currently edit, their real name [if listed], a short description of who they are [if listed] and a link to email them. They may also be on ICQ, or AOL Instant Messenger, in which case they may have list their contact numbers.


4.3 Where does the editor support/feedback link go to? Who gets the mail? Any mail sent through the editor's support feedback goes directly to staff.


4.4 What is the resign as editor of a category link? I'm almost scared to touch it! This is where you go to resign from a category, not from Chef Moz as a whole! If you feel you cannot take care of a certain city or town, simply go to this link and resign from that specific category. You will not need to state any reasons other than to tick off the categories you no longer wish to be listed as editor of. No questions will be asked and no one will think any less of you for it. So don't worry!


4.5 The Tools for Editors link has a star next to it. Why? This is a designation used in the Open Directory Project. It simply means that this site is "cool." It also makes that particular link "stand out", by bolding it. We've used this to let you know that the Tools for Editors category is a great source of information for you. We do not, otherwise, use this in the Chef Moz directory.


4.6 The Tools for Editors link takes me to some strange page called the dmoz open directory project. What is that? You can find out more about ODP here: http://dmoz.org/about.html


4.7 How can I find the E-mail address of the person who submitted a URL? From the editor side, click on the word "Edit" to the right of the restaurants name. The reviews should start being listed about half way down if there is only one review. Closer to the top if there are several. The name should be near the bottom of each review section. If a review has been written by a ChefMoz editor, their editor name will appear in lieu of an e-mail address. Some reviewers choose not to list their e-mail addresses, in which case there will only be an IP address, which can be helpful in weeding out multiple review submissions but generally does not provide assistance in determining e-mail addresses. If the submitting party wishes to include it, they will include it on the form.


5.0 Meta/Editall/Staff 5.1 What is the list of meta-editors all about? In fact, what is a meta editor? What is a Root editor? This link leads to a page that lists root, meta and editall editors within Chef Moz. You can contact them by clicking on their name, which will take you to their profile page and "send email" link. A meta editor is an editor who has been given extra responsibilities, such as editing privileges in all countries (editall) and the ability to accept or decline new editor and new category applications (meta). A root editor is an editor who is also a paid staff member.


5.2 What is an editall and what can they do? And a meta. I don't understand. Editall is just that, someone who can edit any and all of the sites in the directory. They are usually very senior editors who have a good grasp of the way things are supposed to work and are entrusted with the extra responsibilities to help anywhere they are needed. A meta is a senior editor with both editall abilities and 'meta' resposibilities, which include accepting or declining new category requests, new editor applications and keeping an eye on the "big picture." You will find many forum threads of interest to you in the meta forum. The"Complaints" thread is used to ask questions about a category that you may have been declined for. Metas will always take time to answer your questions in a calm, cheerful manner, and ask that you do the same when asking or replying. In the"Special Circumstance Category Requests" thread, you can lodge additional information to be considered when metas are looking at your application for new categories, such as experience in the field or other knowledge metas could not be expected to figure out just by looking at your editing history and the category. Find out more about what criteria metas use to apply to category requests for state and country level editor applications in "Country Editors?" A few others of interest: The announcement of new meta selections by staff in "Welcome our newest metas" The answer to the age old question,""Can I become a Meta?""


5.3 Who has editall access? That question is easiest to answer if you go to your editors dashboard and follow the link to the "List of meta-editors" at the right of your screen. This will give you a page where all metas, editalls, and root editors are listed.


5.4 How can I become an editall? Ask the staff. Be prepared to wait a long time. There isn't a definite set of requirements. An important factor is need - several editalls have been granted when it seemed that would be the easiest way to organize certain categories. The most important factor is the unquantifiable, trustworthiness - how likely are you to screw up another editor's work? Do you have a tendency to get into confrontations with other editors, or to peacefully resolve them? Are your own edits well described? Also, you might log on one day and find that you have all these new categories on your dash board. Don't laugh. It's happened.


5.5 What should I do if I have a problem with another editor? The preferred order of battle for conflict resolution is: Try to communicate with the editor in question. Don't assume anything. It may be that you are taking a perfectly innocent remark as an attack. Ask another local editor for their opinion. Sometimes a second set of eyes can see a way out, simply because they aren't as close to the problem. Request mediation. Basically, this is an official conflict resolution request made by you to one of the senior editors who has volunteered to handle editor problems. As long as mediation is between you, the other editor, and the mediator, it is not binding. If you don't like the way things are going you are free to request a different mediator. Just make sure you let everyone involved know what you are doing. There is a mediation form which must be filled out online located at [TBA-don't think Chefmoz has a form ... yet]. If the mediator cannot handle the problem on a local level (s)he will contact staff requesting their input and/or intervention. Once staff has been contacted all results are binding and final. Some editors who are no longer with us didn't realize this until it was too late.


6.0 The Forum 6.1 Posting a new forum topic. Before you post a new topic in one of the forums, look around a bit using the "Chef Moz Editor Forum Search Page," to make sure there isn't another thread with this same topic. Often, your question has already been discussed and answered. Another useful technique is to access the pop up "Show topics from last X days" menu, and increase the number of days. This allows you to see a listing topics from the past. If you still decide to post a new topic, choose a specific, explicit "Subject" header that lets people know what the post is about. People should have a good idea what your post is about just by reading the Subject, before even reading your post. Also, choose only one idea for each new topic. Don't try to post different problems, ideas, questions, and comments in one topic. These are all different ideas, and each one should have its own topic. Examples: "Search Results are Poor" instead of "Listing". "Listing Disappeared" instead of "Help!". "Removing Hype from Descriptions" instead of "Description". "[bug] No Edits allowed in Australia/QLD/Toowoomba" instead of "Edits". Two new topics, "New Mozilla Icon on Chef Moz Pages" and "Display of Categories on Main Page without Tables" instead of one topic, "Chef Moz User Interface". [This is extremely vague.]


6.2 Posting a forum reply. Stick to the topic. The person who began the topic should have ensured that topic covers only one idea. Don't try to make the topic cover more ideas, start a new topic of your own. If your idea is related, you post the URL of your new topic to the old topic. Consider whether you have something new to add to the thread. If not, consider not posting a reply. Consider whether your reply would be useful in general to the many readers of the thread. If it is not, consider directly E-mailing the few affected editors, instead of posting a public reply. Consider whether your reply will stand the test of time. Will you regret having your reply quoted decades from now? If not, consider not posting a reply. Once you've posted, you are honor bound not to change anything significant. (See "How can I edit my posts?" below). Try to keep your posts concise. Try to give all necessary information but keep the post as short as possible. In order to help others understand your point, use examples. When posting the name of a subcategory, use the complete category name. For example, post "US/PA/Montgomery". Don't post "Montgomery", "US/PA/M", or "US/.../Montgomery". These are too difficult for most readers to easily understand.


6.3 What behavior is expected of me and how may I expect others to act toward me in the fora? We have made an attempt to create an atmosphere here at Chefmoz which will be conducive to the free exchange of ideas. With that in mind, the simplest thing to do is try to live by the Golden Rule. Treat others as you would have them treat you. There has been a lot of discussion on this subject. One of the better discussions can be found at this forum thread. The Unofficial Chef Moz Flames Policy, created through discussion in the forums when Chef Moz began is as follows: A flame is a post meant to be deliberately hurtful, insulting, derogatory, abusive or used to incite another editor. It is OK to disagree with someone, however, please try to state your disagreement in a professional manner. If you want to ask the person to stop flaming, please send e-mail or contact a meta editor. Avoid public discussions of a editor's personality or posting style. Such discussions easily incite other editors to post unconstructive comments. Many editors here find this type of discussion rude and unprofessional. It is human nature for one to find themselves upset over a remark or situation. The very best thing to do in a situation such as this is to walk away. If you feel you simply must reply, take 15 minutes and grab a cup of coffee, go for a walk, etc. In other words, clear your head and find your balance once again. ChefMoz editors are trying to build and maintain a friendly, supportive atmosphere and flaming in the fora does not fit with their vision for this community. Staff is supportive of our efforts and will take complaints of flaming seriously.


6.4 My topic is really important! Shouldn't I post it to every forum so people will read it? No! Pick one forum for your topic, and post it there. If it affects several top-level categories, or affects all editors, post it to General. If you want to make sure staff reads it, send email to autumn@netscape.com. Do not spam the forums. There are several reasons to post a thread in one forum only. The Practical Reason. If it is posted in several places, people won't be able to follow it. Something important might be said in one forum, but missed by people reading the thread in another. The Politeness Reason. Many consider forum cross-postings spam. Just as it is rude to submit the same link multiple times to inappropriate categories, it is rude to post the same post multiple times to inappropriate forums. There is some exception for cross-references. In a merger involving different top level categories, you can post just the URL of the thread with the discussion in another forum. For example, you can post: New Discussion On Restaurant Ratings System. "Please respond at http://dmoz.org/forum/thread display.cgi?t=Forum16/HTML/000107.html" That keeps it short, and makes sure the discussion stays in one thread. Again, limit even this, don't post even the URL of a thread across every single forum. Most editors who read forums at all do read the General forum.(If you need more clarification on this, the New Editors forum is the place to ask it.)


6.5 Why is the forum forcing me to use my scroll bar to scroll the window left and right? Someone posted a long URL to the thread you are viewing. URL's are not split into multiple lines, they remain on one line. (Although there is a long limit past which the URL is forced to break.) This is not good. Besides being annoying, WebTV users cannot scroll left or right, the WebTV browser doesn't have that ability. I would suggest that you post no URL's to the forums which are greater than 64 (or at most 70) characters. One way to avoid posting long URL's is to place the URL inside some kind of quotes and replace any underscores (_'s) inside it with spaces.


6.6 What does TOD mean? TOD is a reference to DMoz, the Open Directory Project's main venture, from whence Chef Moz sprang. You will still find a great many editors from the ODP working happily at both directories, however, there will be those editors who are now working at Chef Moz full-time, as well as new editors who signed on to edit at Chef Moz from the beginning. When Chef Moz first began, a small core of fanatics...er...editors, dubbed the Open Directory Project "TOD", or, "The OTHER Directory," as a tongue in cheek reference to its much larger "parent."


6.7 How do I "splat!" someone? Simple! Just copy and paste this line of hypertext into the forum edit box: http://www.nwprod.com/odp/splat?editor (replace the word: editor) There is also this version: http://www.nwprod.com/odp/splat?editor+-type=double (replace the word: editor) Or this version: http://www.nwprod.com/odp/splat/?editor+-pain=extra (replace the word: editor)


6.8 How can I make smiley faces in the forum? You've probably seen others use smilies before in email messages or other bulletin board posts. Smilies are keyboard characters used to convey an emotion, such as a smile :) or a frown :( Our forum automatically converts certain smilies to a graphical representation. For example, if you type :o in your post, it will automatically be converted to - a shameful face. The following smilies are currently supported:


>:( or {upsetfrown}	upset frown
:( or {frown}	frown
:\| or {neutral}	neutral
:) or {smile}	smile
:-D or {biggrin}	big grin
;-D or {winkandbiggrin}	big grin wink
;-) or {wink}	wink
>:) or {evil}	evil
>:D or {bigevilgrin}	evil grin
:-p or {tongue}	tongue
>:p or {madtongue}	upset tongue
\|:o or {surprised}	surprised
:8\| or {look-away}	rolling eyes
B-) or glasses}	glasses
\|B) or {shades}	shades
(: or {upsidedown}	upside down
!{ or {bonk}	bonk
X-) or {toomuch}	too much
:o) or {bignose}	round nose smile
;o) or {bignosewink}	round nose wink
:-o or {embarrasment}	embarrassment
>8( or {meangreen}	green upset frown
8( or {greenfrown}	green frown
8\|or {greenneutral}	green neutral
8-)or {greenhappy}	green happy
8-p or {greentongue}	green tongue
>8p or {yuk}	yuk
8o) or {greenbignose}	green nose
-\|- or {phantom}	phantom
{:) or {nurse}	oznurse
^-^ or {vulcan}	vulcan
[\|:) or {hat}	programmer in black
88- or {shamrock}	shamrock
=^.^= or {cat}	cat
/O+AFw- or {penguin 1}	penguin
/0+AFw- or {penguin 2}	penguin 2
:>< or {penguin 3}	penguin 3
]:{ or {ill}	ill
]8>< or {owl}	owl
<moz>	mozilla
<^> or {canada}	canada leaf


6.9 What do all these abbreviations mean in the forums? Here is an incomplete list: (Note - please be reasonable using acronyms in forums - we've enough as it is!) FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions - if you haven't read them, you are now. BTW - By the way. LOL; lol - Laughing out loud. ROFL - Rolls on the floor laughing. ROFLMAO - Rolls on the floor laughing my ass off. IMO - In my opinion. IMHO - In my humble (or honest) opinion. OTOH - On the other hand. AFAIK - As far as I know. IRL - In real life (you know, that place with the trees and the birds... IIRC - If I remember correctly. TEOTWAWKI - The end of the world as we know it. RTFM - According to whom you listen, this means: Please read the manual... Read the "fine" manual. TOD - That Other Directory. General Computing: Note: This list could potentially get very long, so editors, please only add abbreviations that are reasonably commonly used, or amusing.] URL - Uniform Resource Locator, i.e. the address of a web page or other resource. WWW - World Wide Web (it's considered very tacky to talk of "World Wide Web Sites" these days - just say "web sites" or "sites".) IRC - Internet Relay Chat. ICQ - A chat program. AIM - AOL Instant Messenger. A chat program. NS - Netscape. IE - Internet Explorer. MS - Microsoft. Chef Moz Specific Cats - categories, not the furry ones Subs - subcategories; also - subcats. Dup - duplicate listing or duplicate. Neweds - new editors. That's you guys. Newbies - same thing, different version of neweds.


6.10 How can I edit my posts? To edit your post, click the "[edit]" link at the top right of your post. Please Note: To quote from 'Posting a Reply', "...consider whether your reply will stand the test of time. Will you regret having your reply quoted decades from now? If not, consider not posting a reply. Once you've posted, you are honor bound not to change anything significant." If someone else quotes from you, or replies to you, it is very bad form to change your post later. Changing anything which would affect the interpretation of other posts, and is, in effect, a mean spirited way to lower their credibility. This is frowned upon here at Chef Moz. Making insignificant changes to material which has not been quoted is always acceptable. This would include fixing spelling errors, making minor additions to your post, etc. It is considered polite, and good manners, to add "edited [date]" when adjusting the content of your post to include other information. Making any changes to material which has been quoted is almost never acceptable. It can be done, however, if an agreement has been reached with the person who had made the quote. In extreme circumstances, it is possible to delete a post by replacing everything in the post with a "[Post deleted.]" note. This should never be done if your post has been referenced (quoted or replied to) by others, unless they are willing to edit their own posts to remove any references to your post. Making significant changes to material which has not been quoted or replied to is usually acceptable, especially if you have only made the post a few minutes ago. However, you should note your edits. Noting Edits If you have made the post some time ago (such as a number of hours ago), you are honor bound to note any significant edits which you have made to your post. This can best be done by inserting an editors note. Editors notes are notes of changes that are placed within [square brackets], also mentioned above. For example: "[05-14-99 11:09 PM: Post edited by deleting references to mrdata.]"


6.11 How can I make hypertext links in the threads? Unless it is the very first thing in your post, if you type anything beginning with "http://" the forum software will make everything from that until the next space into a hypertext link. This makes things easier for the readers, they can just click on the link to see what you are referring to. But this also means you don't want to type "http://chefmoz.dmoz.org," - that comma will be converted into part of the link, and will lead nowhere. Leave a space after any hyperlinks before punctuation. If you screw it up, you can always go back and edit your posting (see above). Sometimes the forum software will convert a Chef Moz category typed with slashes (for example "Australia/QLD") into a link, even if it doesn't start with "http://chefmoz.dmoz.org". Sometimes this does not work, though, for no known reason. If you are discussing a Chef Moz category, it is always safe to write it in the http://chefmoz.dmoz.org/Australia/QLD form.


6.12 Does forum email notification work? Nope. Known bug. Specifically, in the "Post New Topic for Forum" page, there is a function: "Check here to be notified by email whenever someone replies to your topic." It sounds like a neat idea, but it doesn't work. Never has, since the beginning of the forum, and has been mentioned many times, so may well never be fixed. This may have something to do with the fact that our editor names aren't actually email addresses, but in any case it doesn't work. Such is life.


6.13 Will it let in people who aren't supposed to be able to read the forums? No. Don't worry. Any time someone who has not logged in as an editor, tries to access any "editors only" page on Chef Moz, the computer will ask for their user name and password. So uninvited visitors can't get in. :-)


6.14 I have a bug to report, or a suggestion for improving an existing feature, or adding a new,feature to the Chef Moz Restaurant Guide. Whom do I contact? The best place to note bugs, as well as to suggest new features, is the "Bugs and Features" fora in the Chef Moz Forums.


6.15 What if I want to make a change within my category, but I have other editors who are also editing in that city/state/country? Do I just go ahead and make the change? What if one of the editors is inactive, or hasn't edited in a long time? Whom do I contact? All discussions pertaining to ChefMoz should take place in open, public fora. It is the responsibility of any editor initiating a discussion requesting a major change to email any and all closely related editors with the URL of the discussion post. Anyone not responding to any such email after 7 days is automatically assumed to agree with everything decided. Non-delivery of email to the "Send to [editorname]" address will not be an acceptable excuse. All active editors are required to keep their "Send to" email address current.


7.0 Just The Faqs 7.1 Who can add to/modify this FAQ? Any editor with suggestions for improvements and future inclusion is encourage to take thos to the ChefMoz forum.


7.2 Where can I go to discuss changes to this FAQ? The preferred method is to post your new question in the ChefMoz General forum for discussion and mutual ratification before changing the FAQ.


7.3 What is the history of this FAQ? The "Dmoz.org Open Directory Project: Unofficial FAQ" (aka "the FAQ"), from which oznurse has ever-so-gratefully borrowed, then edited for Chef Moz, much of the material that he felt applied to both directories, was conceived of and developed by gruban. Thanks The Chef Moz FAQ was created by oznurse. The ChefMoz community is very grateful to him for compiling this document.


7.4 What is the best way to refer someone to the FAQ when they ask a question I know is answered there? At the top of the FAQ, there is a "Table of Contents". It consists of Web links that point to anchors (the locations of specific questions) within the FAQ. To reference a specific question within the FAQ: Find the appropriate question in the "Table of Contents." Copy the URL of the Web link for that question from the Table of Contents. (Most Web browsers will allow you to easily copy a link's URL by right-clicking on the link and selecting "Copy Link Location" from the resulting pop up menu.)