We have been trying to get our company's website into the DMOZ for 3 YEARS. We should live in Restaurant Equipment Suppliers. Our so-called editor jwmoore lists his experience as "25 years in the horticulture business" and says he likes "motorcycles"... Have you experienced the arrogance and indifference of the DMOZ editors? FTDMOZ!
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Editors have permissions to edit in a set of categories not an obligation -- since all editors are volunteers, trying to force editors to work to someone else's schedule isn't likely to be very productive. Moreover the presence of an editor in a particular category in no way prevents any other editor doing some work there.
While jwmoore is listed in Business: Hospitality: Food Service: Tools and Equipment he's certainly not the only person who can edit there. All those listed in a higher category (eg Business) can, along with the 200 or so editors with Editall permissions.
Conversely, Business: Hospitality: Food Service: Tools and Equipment isn't the only category that jwmoore has permissions in. See his profile for the full list. With permissions in so many places (including all their sub-categories), it's clearly unreasonable to expect him to process all the public suggestions sent to all the categories in which he can edit.
Don't you think it's a bit unfair to criticise one particular volunteer editor, when he's not the only one who can edit that category, and you've no idea what he is or isn't doing editing-wise in his many categories? Judging by his permission level, he must have volunteered a lot of his free time to do a lot of good editing.
I'm afraid I fail to see any comparison between the ODP and Wikipedia in your post. The two projects are trying to do very different things, and hence use different approaches.
The Directory exists to help web surfers find sites, not as a listing service to webmasters. As you can imagine we get a lot of public suggestions, and only a finite number of editors to review them. Furthermore, adding new sites isn't the only thing that editors have to do to build and maintain the directory, and public suggestions aren't the only source of new sites available.
Rather than just complaining, have you thought of volunteering to help, by becoming an editor?
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