Let's Red rep. DMOZ editors.

Fryman, you're slacking...



'Let's red rep DMOZ editors' - Get over yourself

 

Did my post above deserve yet another red rep from some DMOZ nazi?

Dear non-crackhead DMOZ editors. It's the ones like this fella that give you a bad rap and cause people like gworld to wage war against the entire DMOZ establisment.

 

Maybe because he gets what this thread is about and you don't.

 

I have applied as well to become a dmoz editor. The category I applied for does not have an editor. Yet I understand the thoughts behind making someone an editor where they have an interest in that category.

It was posted today that most people dont like to edit in real estate categories so why not bring on someone who is more than willing to edit that category. The problem is that those who hire the editors believe that all individuals who apply to a category and have an interest in that category only wants it so they can manipulate the category. I may not be the brightest or the best as an editor but I know that I am fair, plus I have a lot of experience in real estate and feel I would make a dam good editor with some training. Yet my app was denied as well.

How do we try to help change things other than bit-hing in this forum and others if we cant get accepted as an editor. If there are 30 of us complaining about dmoz on this forum ( everyone knows who we are ) about certain categories and we are made editors, then nothing gets done with those Cats then who looks like the fool..

Shawn you are respected in the internet community and I am sure even before this forum you had a lot of respect, so this is one reason it is easy for someone like you to become an editor and maybe make a difference.

 

Money??

 

LMAO!! There WAS that guy selling his editorship on ebay before they shut the auction down (bidding was up to near a thousand!).

 

So at what point did you start losing interest in being an active editor and why?

 

Since we're on topic, what do you see happening in DMOZ's future, Shawn? Hope or none?

 

If you knew there were 1000 people also editing those listings it would be much easier to get things done.

If you see 50,000 listings and wonder if anyone else is also editing them that would sure make you want to log off

 

If you manage a directory you know how painful it is to go thru listings. I've given up on doing any edits to submissions. For every 100 I get, maybe 1 or 2 have proper grammar, spelling, titles, are in the right category, are not MFA/affiliate sites, or even workable/functioning URLS. Its totally nuts.

I can only imagine DMOZ gets a billion times that many submissions every day.

 

Well that is just absurd. What kind of system do they run that puts a workload of thousands of sites on just a handful of editors?

 

Same here with my little directory, it's rediculous what some members submit (and they are supposed to be experienced webmasters).

I totally agree that DMOZ, Netscape and AOL are leaving the good editors hanging. There seems to be absolutely no real support system and/or proper supervision.

 

Do you think charging for submissions would make it easier?

 

How can it not be their fault?? Who's fault is it then?? I mean, isn't there one person with more than 2 braincells over there that can say "hey, we need to do some changes here, this is getting out of hand, lets change this and that and this other thing and that should help to make approvals easier"? I just can't understand how there can be a problem and no one able to implant a solution.

 

Obviously you are describing a non functioning broken system, doesn't make you wonder with so many people and so much resource involved, why there is no interest to fix it?