Anyone edit DMOZ in here?

[hdpt00]

I'm finding it impossible to get listed. Can anyone that is an editor there now possibly help me out, I am in a Health category. I have a very good, informational site, but it seems there is no editor for my category, so maybe someone else higher up can help out or bring it to someones attention.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[mopacfan]

I do, but I've suggested a few sites that are not in my category and they never got added (that I know of). I'm just a small peon editor so I doubt I'll be able to offer a great deal of assistance.

[sarahk]

Editors are not allowed to influence other editors decisions. Have you considered becoming an editor?

Sarah

[hdpt00]

Of course I've considered becoming an editor. I tried to become one in the category I specialize in, with about 10 other sites and no editor, oh guess what, REJECTED. Yah, I love DMOZ and how they want to make SERPs better.

[Jenny]

I've been listed in the DMOZ for several months now, but my client's craft site was mistakenly put in the sewing category.... Can one of you DMOZ editors fix that?

Her url is http://www.littlechickadeecrafts.com/, and she's in the

Top: Shopping: Crafts: Supplies: Fiber Arts: Sewing: Patterns

instead of the

Top: Shopping: Home and Garden: Accessories: Handcrafted: Country and Rustic

section she should be in, with a 6 word inaccurate description!

I can't tell you how frustrating it is to be a webmaster and try to work with the DMOZ in a less-popular category. No feedback, no way of tracking a submission, no way to guarantee a site will even be reviewed, much less a problem corrected. Any assistance is appreciated!

[sarahk]

You'd be best to ask here: http://resource-zone.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=22

[chachi]

I would be sure to read the posting guidelines BEFORE you post in the forums over there. Not much slack is given to people who do not want to read.

[Old Welsh Guy]

Have you considered becoming an editor?

Sarah


Oh Sarah thanks you have made my day, best laugh I have had for ages. :)

Mister Netscape would probably get turned down to become an editor in DMOZ ;)

[sarahk]

Don't know how I slipped through the net then!

If it's any comfort being able to track your submissions doesn't help your morale. All you see is them not moving anywhere, not being touched. It would appear that commercial submissions are less interesting to edit so get left to last.

One thing I've noticed is sites being submitted and then 2 months later the owner cancels the domain. D'oh, why put the effort to submit in when you're not even committed to having a website.

[hdpt00]

D'oh, why put the effort to submit in when you're not even committed to having a website.

D'oh, why put the effort in to become an editor when you don't add sites?

[sarahk]

D'oh, why put the effort in to become an editor when you don't add sites?:confused: In the early days I didn't edit my own cats.

[caroline]

I am an editor in a small video games category and they won't let me take up any larger categories because I don't have enough edits. The thing is, the game whose category I edit was released in bloody year 1996. How am I supposed to find MORE sites about the game? :mad:

[Jackobo007]

I'm tryibg to add Http://www.Shaislighting.com for ever and they never added it :(

[Old Welsh Guy]

I got regected, had my application written for me by a meta ed, and it was still rejected. The whole system is flawed, sorry there are people who are empire builders there, who are protecting their own little piece of power. The sooner Google either buys it, or drops it the better.

I am good enough to be a Google researcher, but apparently not good enough to edit a poxy category with a handful of sites in.

Crap I am afraid.

[sarahk]

I am an editor in a small video games category and they won't let me take up any larger categories because I don't have enough edits. The thing is, the game whose category I edit was released in bloody year 1996. How am I supposed to find MORE sites about the game? :mad:Find a local webdesigner who has their "portfolio" online, but who doesn't submit the sites. Use Xenu or something similar to get the list of sites into a spreadsheet and start adding them. Noone ever said the edits had to be into your own category. They just want to see that you know how to a) describe a site and b) find the right cat for a site.

Good luck

Sarah

[sarahk]

I'm tryibg to add Http://www.Shaislighting.com (http://www.shaislighting.com/) for ever and they never added it :(It can take years particularly if the category isn't "sexy". Ask at resource-zone.com for an update every so often but read the FAQs first.

Sarah

[schlottke]

Could be a lot of reasons- I honestly believe many editors refuse to add competing links.

[macdesign]

Post #1 it seems there is no editor for my category

See http://dummies-guide-to-dmoz.org/categories_with_no_editors.htm
and http://resource-zone.com/forum/faq.php?faq=odp#faq_no_editor

Post #5 http://www.littlechickadeecrafts.com/

For sure ask about it in http://resource-zone.com/ - but as stated be sure to read the posting guidelines, since it seems nobody does, and it gets frustrating to keep telling posters the same thing day after day.

[malcolm1]

thier isnt editors in most of the catagories by what i see

[sarahk]

then you misunderstand how the editing works. You are assigned a category and every subcategory beneath it. Your name is only shown on the top-most category.

[Old Welsh Guy]

yep, I am with Sarah.

Oddly enough, with regard my never getting accepted. I worked through an application for a friend, he applied to be an editor. Was rejected as they felt 'he would would be better going for a larger categoryt'. We applied for a category a step above the one we applied for, and he got accepted. All within a day or two.

So, Safe to say that it is is ME that is being rejected, not my ability to do the job. Which is sad :(

Sarah is spot on though. I edit Skaffe in the Uk which means I can edit any of the hundreds of categories below the 'UK' level. I go in and if there is no editor there I deal with it immediately, if ther IS an editor I check to see how active they are, and if it is not at all, I deal with the submission on their behalf.