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An Interview With
Ambivalenthysteria
by alnilam
| alnilam | Why did you choose "ambivalenthysteria" for your editor name? |
| ambivalenthysteria | It's a bizarre name. I always come up with bizarre names. I believe I'm the only person to have ever registered the domain psychoticickything.com. |
| alnilam | What is your favourite part of the Arts/ hierarchy? |
| ambivalenthysteria | Why, Movies of course. I did build 98% of it ;). |
| alnilam | True, true. What's your favourite editor's tool? |
| ambivalenthysteria | If it counts, the Add Section Wizard. I'd be lost without it now. |
| alnilam | Sure, it counts. |
| ambivalenthysteria | Good :P |
| alnilam | What is your favourite movie, as an Arts/Movies editor? |
| ambivalenthysteria | Now that's a tough one... probably Ghost World... or Fucking Amal. |
| alnilam | :| That's an acutal movie name? |
| ambivalenthysteria | http://open-site.org/Arts/Movies/Titles/F/Fucking_Åmål/, http://dmoz.org/Arts/Movies/Titles/F/Fucking_%c5m%e5l/ |
| alnilam | LOL Alright, you got me... |
| ambivalenthysteria | :P |
| alnilam | What would you do if a new editor asked you for help? What advice would you give them? |
| ambivalenthysteria | Depends on the category, really. If it's in Arts (such as Music, Television, Movies)... find a good site and mine mine mine... If it's anywhere else, I wouldn't know - all I've done outside of Arts is ontology work. |
| alnilam | What about using the editing interface? |
| ambivalenthysteria | Learn how to use the Add Section Wizard, and as the great meta Alnilam once told me, use the title feature. It makes things look more professional, and boosts your edit count :P. |
| alnilam | What do you like best about Open-Site? |
| ambivalenthysteria | It's small, and you (and others) can actually notice the work you do. It's a smaller community. How many times has any non-metas talked to any of the DMOZ roots? ...never. it's that closer community which is stealing me from DMOZ. But it would be even better if more people would read the forums :). |
| alnilam | Do you prefer Open-Site over the ODP then? |
| ambivalenthysteria | Oh yes. Where else could you be promoted to top-level after actively editing for two months? |
| alnilam | Would you recommend to Open Directory editors to join Open-Site? |
| ambivalenthysteria | Certainly. We need all the more editors, and with them, they bring expertise. Though it is different, I think if you enjoy a closer editing community, then joining open-site is certainly worthwhile. |
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