callivert - 12:03 am on Jul 20, 2007 (gmt 0)

None of the DMOZ supporters or editors who have made appearances on this thread have addressed the original post.
The claim was very specific. One category- main shopping- is shrinking, despite the fact that this is a large and important category. Is this true? We keep getting unsourced "word of mouth" stats about how DMOZ as a whole is expanding, which doesn't address the specific claim of the OP.
If main shopping is static, then one or both of the following factors may be at work.

1) insufficient editors (of that category, not DMOZ in general)
2) corrupt editors (of that category). Excuse my bluntness, but I'm just stating outright what others are insinuating- and I'm only saying that it's a possibility.

Both of these possibilities are concerns - valid or otherwise - held by many about DMOZ in general. That's why the issue is interesting, as this may be concrete evidence of more widespread problems.