They sure do. It's really f-ing annoying when you are an editor and some crap ass robot thinks it's a better "human editor"...
What are you talking about, ViciousSummer? At dmoz, we use robots to find bad URLs. Nothing more. What were you smoking when you thought you saw a robot delete or edit a valid listing?
Aren't you needed at the Resourceless Zone or somewhere, orlady? Paraphrasing Bill Murray in Ghostbusters, "You don't need to hang around here insulting people... you have hundreds of people waiting to be insulted...", and the Resourceless Zone is definitely the place to do that. Better hurry... it's been a long weekend and Hutcheson must be getting tired by this time...
Accountability---thanks. You are the best. Can you change that for me...and look into putting my site into one of the meaningful cats while you are at it?
Uh Huh...right. Orlady, you are either ignorant to this fact, or you're trying to cover dmoz's a$$. Let me do a little research here...When I go through the editing logs for my category and check out the edits by "system", the following types of edits show up: unreview & modify. The "unreview" edits would jive with what you are saying, but what about the "modify"? Now, if you click on "system" it brings up the robots profile which reads: "This is the robot account used by staff to run maintenence-type tasks on the system -- bulk edits, fixing listing errors, for example. More information is available in the forums. There is even more proof that dmoz robots modify listings in the forum, but I don't have time to post all that info right now (unless you want to continue to argue with me)...Time for surfing!
Shit this is getting good, I think they should replace all editors with robots, that would be progress to me, AOL should just dump the humans and install a spider and get the BS overwith Well that is after they hire me as Chairman of DMOZ
Apparently they will also come over here to respond to things you asked them at RZ. LOL.. touchy bunch, if only they spent this much time actually reviewing sites, or coding some kind of automated notification system for additions/rejections, then people wouldn't need to ask when their site was reviewed, or if it had been rejected. Guh... so stupid, if I may say so.
nddb, what pisses me off is when editors who are members on my real estate forum, get contacted within DMOZ to edit the posts they have made in my forum, also the DMOZ section gets an unusual amount of visitors from guests and the same IP addresses I am starting to see again and again (and they are not bots).
roar: that sucks buddy. im with you. accountability: haha. maybe you're right. those bastards. minstrel, thanks so much for spending the time on reviewing that! i really appreciate it. i made a few updates so far. i will try to work on a few header titles with more words. about the tons of links on there, i did that temporarily to help our google rank. and maybe its in my head, but after i did that, combined with spreading our link around the net a bit, our rank went from like page 12 to page 2 on google. whats your thoughts? i dont think its kosher but hey it seemed to work. also, that DMOZ description is okay but they gave us a 2nd one too...its so long that it doesn't even all fit on google when it shows up in search results!! thats why im upset....thanks again. vicious summer: really? how did you find that out? thats bullcrup. sitetutor: well maybe he is christian, but he's being a jerk, i'll tell you that much...or whoever is ignoring my pleas!!! Orlady: you're just a sucker to the system!! don't believe their lies!! this is what im talking about!! DIE DMOZ DIE DIE DIE !!! unbelievable...i hope the dmoz mafia is indeed reading this. maybe they will piss their pants and start putting power in the hands of webmasters again. hmmm....Orlady? relay THAT to Mr. Machine would you? =P
here they come again, 6 guests DMOZ DMOZ DMOZ DMOZ ... hehe I hope some of you guys are in there as well
Anthony, ok you want it you get it: there are so many good DMOZ editors but if you wanna make a difference, IMO you need to step things up and really do something, otherwise it's a waste of time and they win.
I don't like the tone in some of the DMOZ threads here, it is insulting the many editors who spend countless hours doing something they believe in. I suggest going for the big ones, otherwise this will just be a venting place like resource zone is to them, not any better, only reverse. We all know what threads we are talking about. It's not a good idea to keep on bashing without having any power to make any kind of positive change. When there are bash fests, it will only empower the bad ones over there to say "look at those idiots" and they are laughing, trust me. If you want this to be a joke, fine, but leave me out of it. People get hurt, the good editors and the webmasters who want to find some real info how to get their web sites listed
We have brought out better ideas in our "Bashing threads" than anyone at DMOZ could come up with on their own, so I really don't know what you are talking about