How could someone get listed in the virtual pets category if there's no editor? http://dmoz.org/Games/Online/Virtual_Pets/
All editors listed at the top level of Games can edit in that category, as well as about 200 +- editors who can edit anywhere in the directory.
Last update: 19:15 PT, Monday, September 27, 2004 - edit Do you know how long it'll take to get a site listed there?
So, if we go with the above statement, and looking at my current stats, I must have edited 28,000 and added 9,000 new Lions Club listings since all I have is a Lions Club site. Wow, I didn't know there were so many.
How is that at all a helpful answer to the question? That's the kind of Resourceless Zone crap that creates antagonism toward DMOZ.
And had she said "There is no way of predicting when a volunteer editor will perform a review, so it is impossible to predict how long a wait time will take." she would have been accused of using another typical editor textbook response. Both answers would be correct but neither will be appropriate to those looking to find only the negatives. Could it have been worded differently? Perhaps, but for reading it objectively there was no antagonism intended. It was just a way of answering the question truthfully without being accused of being the old dmoz editor textbook responses. Damned if you do, damned if you don't
No, you're wrong about that. The way you worded it points to obvious problems in how DMOZ does business but it provides some information in answer to the question. The way lmocr worded it was a typically condescending Resourceless Zone response which basically says, "We are editors. We are gods. We don't tell puny humans anything because they have no right to that information - only editors do."
The way Shadow worded it does not point to any problems with the way the directory works. Both the way I worded it and the way Shadow worded it identify "how" the directory works. Obviously you don't like the way the directory works - and there's nothing anyone can do about that except you. You infer emotions into a simple statement that don't exist - because you don't like the answer to the question. Here's an even simpler answer to the OP's question: "No one knows." Honestly now - which answer gave more information to the OP? My first answer or this second answer?
"HOW" the directory works, is the PROBLEM. Unless you do not think that lack of organization, procedures and general incompetence are problems.
None of your post-hoc spin alters the fact that it was a typical unhelpful Resourceless Zone response, as you know full well.