Complaint [split from ODP editors are so slow]

[PMojo]

thanks jdaw1...

 

just look at hutcheson's comment.

 

i think i clearly stated my opinion while he/she brings up something completely irrelevant like differences b/w editors and non editors. what does it matter in the big picture.

 

perhaps they should just stick to reviewing the sites and stop trying to write (what they think are) witty comments.

[hutcheson]

PMojo, you're welcome to waste your time anywhere on earth ... except here. Goodbye.

[motsa]

In my opinion, the editors waste their time writing lengthy and mostly oxymoronic replies instead of actually reviewing submissions while sites with crusty content are already listed in DMOZ.

What we do with our time is no one's business but our own. If today I feel like spending 0 minutes editing, 10 minutes posting here, and the rest of my time doing stuff completely unrelated to the ODP, your site, or the Internet in general, so what? How I spend my time isn't your concern. And, let's face, however much or little editing I do is more than most people on the planet are doing so yay for me (that was the crux of hutcheson's post, BTW). You're also presuming that editors who post here are doing so at the expense of editing they could be doing and that would be incorrect.

[spectregunner]

You're also presuming that editors who post here are doing so at the expense of editing they could be doing and that would be incorrect.

 

 

Motsa is so correct in this that it almost hurts!

 

I log onto the web from a variety of places throughout the day, but there is only one place I edit from: my home computer.

 

The answer is simple: dual monitors. I find it exceptionally cumbersome to edit while using a single monitor. Why am I telling you this? Because it is but one reason why a person would participate here while not taking away from their wilingness to edit.

 

And, addressing this to no one in particular, what we often see in this forum is projection.

 

Visitor A, upon becoming an editor, would immediately mess with his competitor's listings, so Visitor A proejcts that all real editors would do the same.

 

Visitor B, who believes that the ODP should be a listing service, projects that all editors not handing submissions/suggestions in unethical/lazy/incompetent.

 

Visitor C, who has no real understanding of how our proejct works, but knows how to keep the pople in his company in line, projects that we should immediately fire any editor who does not meet an artifically-set number of edit.

 

Visitor D, who is into group hugs and kumbayah, projects that and editor who gives a plain-spoken answer is being "mean".

 

Visitor E, who never read the submission guidelines, and never read the on-screen acknowledgement that the system generates, projects that we lack customer service skills because we did not send a personalized e-mail.

 

Visitor F, who is a big deal within his/her company, projects that we are in grave need of his/her management and visionary skills, and proceeds to tell us what is wrong wih the project -- without bothering to understand what we are and what we don't.

 

And the projection goes on and on and on....very day in different ways.