AWOL Editors

[bryanmichael]

It seems there are editors no longer doing anything for dmoz but yet still own categories. Are there any requirements to stay an editor in terms of activity? If an editor no longer does anything for say, over a year (or more), does anything happen? (Besides requests to the editor being ignored

 

thanks,

bryan

[spectregunner]

1. there is no such thing as an AWOL editor.

2. no editor "owns" a category.

3. editor accounts timeout after a specified period of inactivity -- approximately 120 days.

4. most requests to most editors are ignored by design.

[crowbar]

Editors are required to make one edit every 4 months in order to keep their editing privileges, but, even then, if an editor times out they can request reinstatement.

 

You have to remember, we are volunteers who do this freely in our spare time, not employees. We all have real lives with real jobs, and we don't own the categories we edit in, we just have permission to edit in them, . How much time we spend doing it is totally up to us.

 

Also, an editor in a higher category can edit in every category beneath him, so, even if there is no named resident editor for a category, there are many editors who can and do edit there.

 

Even when there is a named resident editor in a category, that doesn't stop other editors from editing there also.