I just did a test submission and its working fine. You did know you were supposed to type identical characters in the little rectangular box? No sure why someone who doesn't give a damn about submitting to the ODP would worry about whether or not the captca works.
To someone with -4 eyesight like me those characters are very difficult to read, plus if I'm doing mass submission to empty DMOZ categories I have to do it over and over again. I guess DMOZ doesn't want help from public in building its directory since then editors actually have to do more then single edit in three months.
Ah, but mass deletes take much less time, so you're wasting more of your time than ours, lol. I think it's one edit every 4 months. You'd have to try really hard to time out, so I think that shows we try to hang onto editors, even when they aren't all that active. If an editor adds even one site in that period, the Directory has improved by one site, if they haven't then they've probably lost interest in editing altogether. Even then, they can and do ask for reinstatement and many times receive it. You can't really put a quota on volunteers. That would be like the Red Cross saying,"No, if you're going to donate money to us, we expect you to give us at least $20 every week, not $1 whenever you feel like it." I think you can imagine what the reaction would be, and there's no reason to think volunteer editors wouldn't react the same way, . Many sporadic $1 donations from tens of thousands of people does a lot of good, mandatory donations would yield much less. When they work properly, they're kind of fun, when they don't they're a royal pain in the fanny. Unfortunately, mass submissions of spam force these kind of inconveniences on everyone. You'll be happy to know it doesn't affect editors one iota, so you might say, you reap what you sow.
So what your saying is that all my submission of unique content rich websites which I happen to find while working on Skaffe are being deleted? And you wonder why people think DMOZ is a joke. I think you have missed a comparison if someone volunteers to Red Cross and says he wants to go to Africa to help out and after he gets there does only the minimum which is required from him isn't really a volunteer but a lazy bum.
In that case the Red Cross Valunteers prefer to be in DP - not in dmoz editing web sites. What's the use of captcha, anyway, if most submissions are ignored? Any failed securtity guard, traffic warden or policeman can make a fine dmoz editor
Actually, I haven't felt much like editing at all, and I may cut back even further, . What with the holidays coming up an all, January or February looks good.
This nastiness is a very poor reflection on the ODP, don't you think? I think we all know how to use captcha, but when it's broken it's broken. I have a nice list of sites with good descriptions that I was trying to submit to various subcats of http://www.dmoz.org/North_America/Canada/Yukon/Localities/ and http://www.dmoz.org/Regional/North_America/Canada/Northwest_Territories/Localities/ but gave up because of trouble with the captcha. Someone really ought to build up those localities... Yes, I know it would take less time for editors to mass delete submissions than it does for users to submit, but I would really hope that wouldn't happen. Maybe the captcha could be tested more than once before editors dismiss the problem by throwing out condescending remarks about it. And maybe it could be fixed so good submissions could get through? And no, the sites I tried to submit do not belong to me, I have no affiliation with them.
Actually, I was thinking about the old days when there were 10 copies of the same site sitting in unreviewed and 9 of them needed to be deleted, .