glasshound said:
I've read ALL the guidelines but there's NOTHING stopping an editor from arbitrarily delisting a web site...there's no checks and balances to stop this from happening...and since editors do not have to answer for their actions this just exasberates the problem..
Yes..I will make a formal abuse report and hopefully somebody will eventually have to answer for their actions OR we're right back to where we started.. a "dictatorship"....
Blair
There are tons of checks and balances, the abuse report being just one. Every editor is constantly being monitored by their peers, by the editors in the categories above and around the ones that they edit, by the Meta editors, and ultimately by the Admins and Staff. If an editor is doing something bad, they will be caught and booted.
But just because you think that a situation is abuse, it doesn't make it abuse. The Open Directory is not a "dictatorship" (that doesn't even make sense in this context), but it's certainly not a democracy either. And it's never claimed to be a "democracy". The ODP is a human built directory of web sites. We add the web sites that we want to add, and we ignore the ones that we don't want to add. No one has ever been promised that their web site will be added to the directory and that it will stay there until the end of time. The directory is not a listing service for web site owners. If more people would come to understand that fact, more people would not be so dissatisfied with the "service" that they are receiving
