My family will not start the dishwasher until it is completely full or we have otherwise run completely out of clean dishes of some category that they want to u

My family will not start the dishwasher until it is completely full or we have otherwise run completely out of clean dishes of some category that they want to use. Tends to stink quite badly eventually, yes. I have failed utterly to persuade them to do otherwise, so mostly handwash my own dishes and let them do their thing.