jackstar said:
Okay then please do me a favour and give me the link of the post where a Meta stated that the application was accepted?
. Maybe it is a possible answers but it is never used.
There aren't going to be too many threads on this forum where a person comes here to ask the status of their application, if their application has already been accepted. If an editor's application has been approved, then they are sent a letter with their login information, and instructions on how to get started editing. They are directed to the main editor dashboard, which is on dmoz.org, not resource-zone.com. New editors seldom come to this forum until after they have read through some of the information in the ODP
internal forums which have absolutely no relation to this forum. Very few editors actually participate on this forum, until after they've spent some time editing.
So the only people who are going to be asking for the status of their application are people who have not received either a denial or acceptance letter. The only response there can then be is that it is waiting to be reviewed, or that it was declined and for some reason the person did not receive the e-mail stating that. Every now and then someone comes here who didn't receive the acceptance e-mail for one reason or another (spam filters usually), and we are more than happy to tell them that they have been accepted, and to send them the log in instructions - that's pretty rare.
For some reason though the declined application e-mails tend to go astray quite a bit. They seem to get picked off by spam filters by many of the larger free-mail services. (We should probably be running those letters through a spam tester at some point to see why - but that's a topic for another thread).
That being said, using the "stats" from this forum to make the statement that we accept very few new editors is not a good idea. In December we actually accepted 288 new editors. November was 292, and October was 515. We accept a lot of new editors, it's just that they generally don't run out and announce that they've been accepted
