Just asking a question. Are you the Mustang Guy at RZ of DMOZ who applied to be an editor who wants to edit the Mustang Category?
I have applied before to the Ford Mustang category along with local categories in relation to my hometown. I have 3 posts on the resource-zone.. so I doubt its me. http://resource-zone.com/forum/showthread.php?t=41331&highlight=mustang Is that what you are talking about? If so then no that is not me. What does me applying for the Ford Mustang category have to do with the current editors in charge of the Ford Mustang category being insanely to slow for such a big category?
What I really want to know is which ones have the Q, and exactly how long is it? Are we talking the gents at the intermission of a Billy Connolly show or the corkscrew at alton towers bank holiday august 18th?
The web maybe growing but Dmoz surely isnt, unless you count the editors personal sites that are added. You know I hate to keep harping on this but its simple math, the real issue is here that a majority of the editors are either lazy or only interested in adding sites of theirs, family, friends or clients. To only require 3 listings a year to be performed by an editor is a JOKE. I am amazed that Dmoz is still a functioning directory with guidelines such as that. You cant say upkeep is taking a great amount of time. One of your biggest categories isnt updated hardly at ALL ( Real Estate )..so that is just a typical BS Dmoz statement to redirect from the primary issue of why it takes so long for sites to get listed. Minstrel is right this and other issues is going to be the downfall of Dmoz.
Really? I understand someone went through the Las Vegas Real Estate category within the last couple of weeks. Unless there was some other real estate category that you're monitoring? Google Directory vs DMOZ Google shows 266 real estate sites, while DMOZ shows 215 - so the category has been updated within the last month or so, and pretty significantly too.
The agents section has been updated within the last 2 weeks. It has gone from 155 agents listed to only 124 now, so for agents it has been reduced. I do not keep up with anything other than the agents section of the category.
Oh but I can say that upkeep of existing listings is taking an increasing amount of time! And it should be obvious that it will. Anyone who has links on their site knows that they need checking periodically if you don't want your visitors hitting dead ends, redirects, hijacks and the like. As for the many users of this forum who are running directories themselves - they could tell you that the bigger they get, the more time you have to put into tending them. So you are running to stand still. In fact, considering that removing dead links reduces the size of the directory, it's like running up the down escalator. Amazingly, despite all that, the Open Directory is actually growing. See the statistics for yourself: http://resource-zone.com/forum/showthread.php?p=210499
If links were being checked often than why was the category that I referred to had not been updated in over a year. The only time it received an update was when I pointed out several dead links and other sites that didnt meet Dmoz guidelines? Once again I point to simple math, 7000 editors x 7 sites per week ( Avg ) = 2,548,000 sites listed or reviewed per year. IMO if an editor cant average 1 site a day, who needs them. Its like minstrel pointed out. If you were a mod on a forum and you only came in 3 times a year to moderate the forum, what good are you to the growth of that forum.
can't give you an answer, may be somebody else wants to try Now, I don't know what others are doing. Your "simple math" is a little bit too simple. Like many others already tried to explain, it is not only about listing/reviewing. Since I became editor roughly 2 months ago, I added less than 30 sites. My categories are killing small, so I am hunting down all sites that might be worth a listing. This is way more time-consuming than you would immagine. Had to count my bookmarks after reading your post, this evening I ended up with 75, 2/3 of them still need to be reviewed and sorted. I am working, I have friends, family and I am trying to organize a new category. This takes way more time than I ever immagined. So please give me a live and don't repeat posting your "simple math".
This is exactly what I mentioned previously, the real number of editors in my estimate is about 500-1000. The people who actually have the power to make a change in the systems is significantly less than that. The whole paranoia atmosphere in DMOZ has only paralyzed the organization while keeping the real volunteers out and keeping the corrupt editors in. Spammer, spammer is the excuse for all the failures in DMOZ but in the mean time there is no willingness to discuss and fix the problems. With all so called concern about abuse, the abuse prevention methods are just a joke.