And here lies biggest DMOZ flaw, there is very little difference on how porn, pills, ringtons, travel categories are treated compared to totally obscured niches, culture etc., local editors have to work hard just to get another category with little difference where it is located. Any unpaid volunteer will quickly get bored with this hierarchy system in which you not only have prove yourself but prove yourself over and over again at lest until you become meta since then your on the top of the food chain and to get yourself removed takes a lot of effort. So unless some drastic changes are made there will be very little progress done and backlog will just keep getting bigger and bigger...
Well there are many editors and editalls who have been around a long time and have not got bored. Perhaps we need to get a life, but then less of those sites that Webmasters complain about which don't get listed will get listed. Count my stay in years not weeks or months and like Brizzie said somewhere, I don't want to be a meta, thanks.
So we should place bets on how long until you join removed editors clan since anyone not wanting to be meta is immediately suspicious and has to be investigated because who would want to pass on a chance to taste meta power over life and death - they say its better then any combination of alcohol, drugs and sex.
What utter bilge water you pump out sometimes, it is probably more suspicious when people do want to be a meta, under your theory, because it would threaten those in power.
If you want power and you can prove your worth to them why would you be threat? It is the reformist who want to change things that are dangerous not power hungry individuals.
Power over what? A bunch of volunteers who can't be directed to do anything they don't want to do? Power to influence the Internet in some way when it is clear a DMOZ listing is really of no value? Those in search of power really need to look elsewhere for their thrills. Oh I know that some senior editors in DMOZ try and throw their weight around, but it isn't really power in the sense that it has any effect whatsoever on anything of significance. If you are really driven by the sort of power you might obtain within DMOZ as a meta then you are probably clinically insane.
Beats me, I'm not meta. I have seen many such persons as forum moderators, Wikipedia admins etc. so I doubt DMOZ is exception especially with everything that has been going on.