>There is no specified editor for: ... I am looking to see if a higher up editor can please review the catagory.
The reality is 7 compass points away from where you're looking. In fact, the "higher-up editors" do the vast majority of all listings (probably over 95% of them).
[Aside: this is a significant part of why the ODP works so well at what it does -- the most productive editors, the ones who like it and do it well, are allowed to keep on doing it, instead of being appointed middle managers and project leaders and high school coaches and ... other people who are kept too busy to get anything done.]
When this fundamental principle is being violated -- a named category editor is doing too much of the work -- we restore cosmic equilibrium simply by making him a higher-level editor.
So then, what happens if a category is neglected by higher-up editors? Theoretically, if it is really interesting to surfers, new surfers will becom editors to resolve that imbalance in the cosmos. (And if not, then ... it really doesn't matter anyway, does it?)
So, we're always trolling for a few good editors. Want to edit Activism/Pacifist or Society For Violent Creative Anachronisms? Fine, it frees up the higher-up editors to edit the neglected Shopping/Guns or Literature/French categories. Or vice versa. Or even something they're personally interested in.
[Aside: which is another reason the ODP is so good at what it does: sampling the interests of thousands of editors, and weighting each editor's interest by how hard he's willing to work to advance it, focuses the work on what really matters to surfers in a way unimaginable to people used to the Pharoah-and-pyramid-block-dragger-teams (or Beloved-Leader-and-massed-syncopated-gymnasts) approach.
Oddly enough, spammers do the same thing. Get thousands of website proprietors (each focussing on spamming the spite out of some particular Google search results of interest to them) cooperating, in their own way, without centralized leadership or guidance or management or coordination or even any commonality of interest at all, and what happens? Remember....
They wiped out all the big search engines before Google; and now even many Google results are solid affiliate/anonymous promotional doorway spam -- despite Google's spam-detecting technology that was unimaginable even ten years ago.
Effective social engineering to solve a technical problem, yes. Predictable, manipulable -- no. And that's a benefit, not a problem, so far as the surfers-turned-editors are concerned. (In other words, we're not looking for a solution to it. We'd like it to be even more resistant to malicious manipulation. And, if you think about it, that means even less predictable. Because if you can predict something well enough, and you can have any effect on it at all, then you can begin to manipulate it.
, I'd hope that I might get REALLY LUCKY and have my submission accepted. 