Then they ignore you

What is in Ohloh is not relevant. The point is what you promote in your press releases and fundraising materials. The point is the public claims you make, how you represent your project in your official communications.

If Apache was issuing press releases claiming a core developer community count based on HTML editors or other non-coders, then you would be quite correct is calling that out as improper. But they haven't done that, have they?

(And btw, AOO goes into some detail on their Stats page about their Ohloh stats: http://www.openoffice.org/stats/)