DMOZ is dead or is it? Please post if you got approved lately!

Well I'd love to be proved wrong, but unfortunately I'm right! It seems that the Open Directory Project is heading to the bottom, and all the Search Engines that use it don't seem to care. It is so sad to see that Volunteer based project such as the ODP are not capable of managing their editors and even their own website. I just wrote that I found today the DMOZ website is down, maybe for good, who knows.

Please share your experience with me here. I'd love to know if someone got approved lately. Please post your categories (to know that there are still editor out there).

I'm waiting for your replies!

Thanks!

Venetsian.

 

It's not dead, but take a long time for review.

 

DMOZ is quite strict with site quality, thus the editors will take a long time to audit - maybe it would take 6 months to evaluate? Just be patient~

 

Many hundreds of editors are active all over the directory every day, finding and adding new sites, improving quality, accepting or helping new editors, discussing changes, and doing the many activities available to volunteers (depending on their level of experience and their permissions of course).

As reviewing suggestions is only one of those activities, and not at all a priority, it would be foolish to try to assess the activity of DMOZ by looking only at the time taken to review a suggestion.

I am one of many volunteers who spend several hours most days on DMOZ, but I might only look at suggested sites once or twice a week, and even then it is rarely that I see one I feel like listing.

 

Hi, Its great to hear that there are still people out there. I just wonder why when I tried today to submit a link I got a proxy error. Is that something for particular categories or editors only?

Thanks for explanation in advance.

Venetsian.

 

The site suggestion feature is working fine, as far as I know. Not all categories accept suggestions, of course, instead requiring you to look for a more specific category, but in those cases there is no "Suggest a URL" link.
However there is currently a long-standing problem with sending external feedback to editors (we are still waiting for AOL to fix it), so maybe you were trying that? Perhaps you did not realise that you can't ask specific editors to review sites? No editor owns a category, and the site should be suggested to the most appropriate category, whether or not an editor's name appears there.

 

It seems like the suggestions are being evaluated extremely slowly. I thought it was dead too. I guess I was wrong. Thanks for the information.

 

I suspect the vast majority of people who's sites get listed do not frequent Digital Point.

 

I applaud your sincere efforts to be the "Tape Recorder of the Year" for the Mozzie Awards. But you said in the other thread is a contradiction of what your saying here. No Queue. No Waiting

 

You should really hire this guy, he would be prefect spokesperson for DMOZ he symbolizes everything DMOZ stands for.



I'm really surprised DMOZ is still alive, Jason and Freddy are nothing compared to DMOZ, nothing can kill it, it will exist even after Google, AOL, wikipedia are gone and forgotten by history while DMOZ will continue its existence like a vampire feeding on its victims - naive webmasters who want to get listed and naive newbie editors thinking they can change something.

 

The ideal new editor - one with enthusiasm for the directory, lack of self-interest, and a willingness to learn.
I'm delighted to say that with ongoing help and guidance, many of these go on to become productive editors who help to build the largest human-edited directory, so don't knock them!

Well, if they feel like victims it's only because they refuse to understand that DMOZ is not a listing service. (Can I hear an echo? )

 

DMoZ would become irrelevant in a year if enough webmasters pulled together a new open source directory with quality standards behind it. It does not seem that any such inertia exists, however, and it would have to come from a lot of webmasters, with a lot of respected sites behind them.

 

Not true. I got reviewed within the hour i applied. I think it depends on what catgory your applying for.

 

lol !!

I have been around SEO >10yrs and would hate to count how many times that has been mooted. Either it never gets off the ground or if it does, it fails very quickly.

 

If you mean you applied to become an editor, then yes, it is quite possible to get accepted (or rejected) within an hour.

However, it is simply not possible to apply to have your site listed, regardless of the category you choose, because that is not a service offered by DMOZ - see my last post just a couple of hours ago where I reminded everyone for the umpteenth time that DMOZ is not a listing service.
If you suggested your site for review, and a volunteer just happened to be looking at the suggestions, and just happened to see your site and feel like adding it to the directory, then that might be seen as good fortune, or pure coincidence, or whatever, but it still has absolutely nothing to do with what category was involved.

 

You mean zero self-esteem, willing to worship metas as gods?

You mean mindless familiars following orders? Where is Blade when you need him.

Yes people get confused because crap gets listed and useful website don't.

 

i submitted 1 site 2 years ago and get approved after few weeks.
later time about 8-10 months ago it suddenly get deleted. no reason was given. i'm sure not break their rule cause it's a widely used reseller store template. and lots of same site are listed there.
2 months ago i'd submitted my current http://www.rmvalues.com site and still waiting for approval.

 

Many sites are taken out of the Directory by automated QC tools if there is a problem with the url. They haven't been deleted, they are waiting in unreviewed for an editor to investigate the problem and resolve it one way or the other. If the site is back up or has moved to another url, it will be readded, if the site is 404, it will be deleted.

 

So none of those millions of sites are useful to you? That's a shame.
Never mind, we'll keep listing worthwhile sites for everyone else.

 

Speak for yourself.