When "Open" is closed

So, you have a lively discussion about the shortcomings of the ODP site submission process (see Last update: 21:47 PT, Saturday, July 30, 2005), you touch a nerve regarding the "Social Contract with the Web Community" and "open" becomes "closed"!

From motsa, R-Z Administrator:

OK. We're repeating ourselves and you're not actually listening so I'd say this thread has reached the end of any usefulness it might have had -- I'm going to close it.

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That's a lot of power for one individual to decide who is "not actually listening".

Open, if you bothered to read any of the ODP documentation or the dozens of previous threads on this topic, means that the data that the ODP produces is Open for anyone to use it for their own purposes.

That is, download the freely available RDF files and make your own site from ODP data. Just remember to give attribution as to where the data come from.

Oh, and I doubt that "one person" decided "alone" to close your previous thread.

It seems to me that

you're not actually listening

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is still a valid statement.

That's a lot of power for one individual to decide who is "not actually listening".

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That is called a moderator as any good forum should have.

It might be usefull to read http://resource-zone.com/guidelines.php

>That's a lot of power for one individual to decide who is "not actually listening".

Ray, when every single respondent claims that something IS working, doing exactly what it is supposed to, and YOU claim that "we all" agree it's NOT working, the veriest idiot could see that you're not listening.

Go back, read the replies, read them as many times as it takes until you understand them. I think it'll take you at least a week, so I've closed your posting privileges until then. But if that's not long enough for you to achieve understanding, take as much time as you need. Then, and only then, you're welcome to come back and apologize for wholesale misrepresentation.

At that point, and not before then, you're welcome to enter any of the many genuine dialogues in this forum.

So, you have a lively discussion about the shortcomings of the ODP site submission process

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It's not a lively discussion when one side isn't paying attention to what the other side is saying. It becomes just plain old repetitive. Do you really need another 5 pages of the same old same old?

By the way, my closing of that topic was not an invitation to reopen it in a new topic. Nor is my closing of this topic an invitation for you to restart the "discussion" in a new thread.