“How difficult would it have been to take the 30 seconds that it takes to sign up for casinogames to view the content of the website?”
Less time consuming than including a password for an editor! deliberately wasting another person’s time is not the way to anyone’s heart. Also, what sane person gives out their email address to just anybody. These types of things are an easy way to get spammed, everybody does aknowledge that hopefully. And it is silly to suggest that an editor should create a new email account every time a webmaster doesn’t include a password to a password protected site. The main thing though is editors are supposed to evalute the web content they see, which in this case is nothing.
“Not only did I get rejected within hours, I didn’t even receive the courtesy of a note advising me why.”
That is a physical impossibility unless you are suggesting they called you on the telephone!
Once again, you applied for a category that has a subcategory. It is extremely unlikely someone would get approved in that scenario since it is pretty presumptuous. Apply for the smaller category. Or apply first to edit the category for schools or hospitals or whatever in your home town.
To be rejected you have to get an email. It’s just a form email, and maybe some dick of a meta editor should have included a reason, but so what? You just going to curl up into a ball and die? Take the next step. In this case, Randy, if you would have read a bunch of the apply to be an editor resource zone forum it would have been apparent that you should have applied to a smaller category.
I said before I’m not an editor. I’m a gambling webmaster and do SEO, which is the same thing I suppose. My principal interest is the search engine related stuff. Content and all that takes care of itself.
“Please correct me if I am wrong here.”
You’re wrong. There is nothing that prevents a webmaster from being an editor in his/her interest area. But you have to bite off a small piece first. There was one guy on resource zone a few months ago offering to volunteer to do a security alarms category, something like that. Problem is the category was enormous, 300+ listed sites and hundreds waiting for review. But the guy was too stubborn to apply to a smaller category that didn’t interest him much first. You can’t just become Pope. You gotta rise up through the ranks.
DMOZ adds 4000 sites a day and is the Internet’s biggest human directory. It’s literally the place search engines start crawling the Internet. (I was wrong in the other thread too, Inktomi starts with DMOZ too.) Perhaps it’s got more than its share of weenie librarians, but again so what? Either don’t care about it, or do something about it. Complaining doesn’t serve any purpose.
The DMOZ gambling categories are in pretty good shape, but it could use a dozen or more editors. And those potential editors need to understand, well, much of the rest of the world doesn’t like gambling (or adult) webmasters so you are held to a higher standard than others, so you have to start small and slow and work up to greater responsibility and trust. Maybe that sucks totally, but that is how the world works.
Randy, if you do want to edit that category fairly and well, why don’t you apply to edit a category for your home town or area first? I don’t do anything with roulette, but it would be great to see someone committed enough to earn the privilege of being that editor.