Monthly Report for August

It's reassuring to see how involved the admins are...

 

You are looking at Staff accounts. Not everyone on the list is an Admin. See http://dmoz.org/guidelines/admin/ for the actual names.

 

See my post above. The ones I listed are identified as admins.

 

Those accounts are actually former staff, not staff, not admins. They are misidentified on the report because...... well, I really couldn't say because I don't know.

 

Because it's DMOZ and like everything else with DMOZ even their staff directory is years out of date?

 

Hmmm, 17th September and still no August report. I see chris2001 is logging on so is not on her holidays. There must be some really bad news to try and explain...

 

It is funny, I was thinking the same thing couple of days ago. May be the monthly report is just getting too embarrassing for the management.

 

Do they get embarassed ?

 

23rd September and still nothing. Speculation only but is this maybe a case of if you suppress the information you will suppress the criticism and what people don't know won't worry them. It might work if it were not for the fact that the raw data can be extracted quite easily from sources in the public domain.

All we have to go by in the meantime is what appears to be an appalling dip in listing productivity far beyond anything to date, which would also seem to indicate another fall in editor numbers. It would be nice to see the official statistics and explanations to prevent speculation.

 

<The zone where normal things don't happen very often aka The Twilight zone mod>

It is The Curse - every company I worked for and which didn't pay or fired me suffered problems! Hosting companies I used which pissed me off had also some big problems. This also covers people who decided to stab me in the back or con me in some way - there lives become miserable.

OTOH people who like me will have good luck.

So you all better be nice to me or I'll make you go to the cornfield!

</The zone where normal things don't happen very often aka The Twilight zone mod>

 

People are volunteering for more useful, higher-profile and more rewarding projects like the Wikipedia or in my case, Google Co-Op.

I don't think any amount of editor attrition, or any amount of approaching doomsday statistics, is going to stop the snooty, pompous editor rejection process. The doors are closed. But the horse has already left the barn.

 

They can't live forever.

 

Hmmm - seems there is in fact a very serious problem with the number of listings going the wrong way.

These are today's figures. I have only checked sample branches but

ARTS------------ 288,139
BUSINESS-------- 254,691
COMPUTERS------ 137,763
GAMES----------- 61,069
REFERENCE------- 65,493
REGIONAL------- 1,105,439

These are all lower than the August figures in the opening post.

WORLD---------- 1,762,925
K&T-------------- 41,329

These are the two branches that have been holding up the numbers but the increases there are marginal only.

There is still a week left but it doesn't look good for September either.

 

And this does not augur well for October, November... as well as 2007 and 2008.

Probably it's going to slip down and down, until it levels off, with maybe 10-20 active editors tending to much fewer listings.

I predict that in 2010, the ODP will be all caught up to 2003.

 

You're a hopeless optimist, helleborine.

 

Wow. That's like the Homeland Security backlog on Immigration.