Bluesplinter

I admit, it's grand notion... to resign from a category when you get higher permissions, or if you aren't as active in the cat as you once were, to entice new editors who might be hesitant to apply where another editor is listed. And, we're encouraged to do just that. However, in practice, it just doesn't seem to make that big a difference. In my time as an editor, I've resigned from a dozen or more cats, and not one of them has been picked up by another editor. There are just so many categories in the ODP, that a few editors hoarding cats just doesn't affect the overall picture much. It's certainly far from "ruining the ODP". I sometimes feel sorry for my little orphaned cats... they must feel so abandoned... <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" alt="" />

Sigh, I guess you're right. Besides, I certainly don't want her job! <img src="/images/icons/grin.gif" alt="" />

Hmmm... "monster editor".... kinda cool! I like it <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" alt="" /> Can we make that official? <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" alt="" />

So how do you really feel about it, hutch? <img src="/images/icons/grin.gif" alt="" />

I've also been having trouble getting in via the dmoz.org "editor login" lately, but if you go straight to http://dmoz.org:8080/editors/ you can bypass the slow public side, and get to the swift editor side. <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" alt="" />

>> This is a good read << Cool! Thanks for the link. And that was 2 1/2 years ago... when they just added a 3rd data center. According to this FAQ... Google Update FAQ They now have several data centers with at least 10,000 individual computers (I believe there are 7 data centers). That's an awful lot of crunching power <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" alt="" />

Well, Google was funded by venture capital (I know of one round of $25 Million, I don't know if there were other rounds or not), plus they make oodles of money from search agreements they've signed, AdWords, etc. All that money allows them to buy a fair bit of processing horsepower. I know of 10 or 12 servers accessible to the public, and I don't doubt they have many times that for internal data massaging. ODP has some very nice hardware, but nothing like that.

Yeah, everyone please note for future reference, that this is a common (and getting more prevalent) method of affiliate tracking. If you see any URLs like this, they are invariably affilate URLs.

I just got bumped to Editall (only), so please change my status. Thanks!

Wow! That was fast work, thanks! Steve

Hey Folks, Please bump my account to "editor" status, too. Thanks <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" alt="" /> Steve