hutcheson - 8:20 pm on Oct 2, 2007 (gmt 0)

One of the most important elements of QC is ... public review. All the listed sites are visible: the ones that shouldn't have been listed, the ones that were repurposed immediately upon being listed, the organizations (or businessmen) who died last week (or last year...)

It's hard to talk about what "quickly" means in such a context, but reports of bad listings are pretty consistently reviewed within hours or days. (Obviously the RESPONSE doesn't always come as quickly, but in clear-cut cases, the first response may be repairing the directory.)

This is worth emphasizing for several reasons.
(1) ANYONE can help. You don't have to show linguistic fluency, or establish trust. All you have to do is look, and report what you see.
(2) The response is (for all practical purposes) completely public--anyone can see what was done, and anyone can watch for patterns of repeat damage.
(3) These kind of problems are both the most common and the most serious problems the directory has--beside these, all other problems are insignificant in number of occurrences, and in severity per occurrence.