Can you remove editors that are inactive?

Hi,

I have been trying to get my site listed at http://www.dmoz.org/Games/Gambling/Sports/Tipping_and_Handicapping/Soccer/ for many years.

My site is a real authority in that field, but I have seen that not only is my site not listed, generally there has been hardly any activity in that category for a very long time, so the editor is obviously completely inactive.


I have tried to write to him via dmoz's send-message-tool:
http://www.dmoz.org/cgi-bin/send.cgi?toeditor=sgvictor
but I get a 502 proxy error (I tried it several times during the last 6 months) so that one would be a good fix too by the way.


But my question is, when will dmoz finally remove an inactive editor and assign the category to someone who is willing to do the work?

please advise
Florian

when will dmoz finally remove an inactive editor and assign the category to someone who is willing to do the work?

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- The accounts of editors who don't edit for 120 days time out automatically.
- We don't assign categories. If they are interested, editors volunteer to edit them.

All categories can be edited by several hundred senior editors. A low activity editor in a category doesn't prevent others from doing work there.

There's no need to contact an editor directly because the website will speak for itself. Bugging editors to demand priority processing isn't productive.

I get a 502 proxy error ... that one would be a good fix too by the way.

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I take it you did not bother to read the many explanatory posts on this subject?
If you had, you would have understood that directing complaints at volunteer editors is completely pointless, because such matters are solely in the hands of AOL staff, who will presumably work on this according to their own schedule, not ours, and certainly not yours.

More importantly, I hope you did read the instructions on the suggestion form, clearly warning of the consequences of excessively repeated suggestions?

Thanks a lot for your answers, certainly I did read all the instructions (several times in the last 4 or 5 years), and I wouldn't regard submitting my site once or twice a year excessive.

I only wanted to know if he even reads his messages and edits submissions. What for is the contact editor link then anyway?

However, obviously nobody is taking care of suggestions in that category, but I guess you can't do anything about it. I can imagine there are so many submissions everyday so I admit it's difficult to separate the good from the bad when time is scarce, but if he can't do it, he should let someone else taking care of it.

I wouldn't regard submitting my site once or twice a year excessive.

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So presumably you missed the part of the instructions that said:

http://www.dmoz.org/add.html said:

Please only submit a URL to the Open Directory once. Again, multiple submissions of the same or related sites may result in the exclusion and/or deletion of those and all affiliated sites.

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...but if he can't do it, he should let someone else taking care of it.

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You're rather misunderstanding how the ODP operates here. An editor being listed as an editor for a particular category in no way stops any other editors from working there too. So it's not the case that any editors who (in your opinion) "might not be pulling their weight" are stopping other editors from taking up the slack. Editors have permissions to edit in particular categories, not sole ownership and responsibility for those categories. The only reason someone else isn't editing any particular category (with our without a listed editor) is that no-one who's suitably qualified in terms of editing skills has volunteered to do so.

So presumably you missed the part of the instructions that said:

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Heck, when he said

but if he can't do it, he should let someone else taking care of it.

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he'd even missed my

All categories can be edited by several hundred senior editors

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If the OP isn't going to read our replies, there's no point wasting time continuing the conversation. Closing.