No luck getting listed with a primo site... been told my competition is moderator

DP ban without evidence and without any way of appealing. How would you know the process for either DP or DMOZ, Q? All secondhand, like most of the information you try and distribute about DMOZ, but suitably twisted no doubt.

 

So you are talking about ODP bans from first hand knowledge? Or maybe from DP bans...

I know you have been banned from here, and I have not been banned from either. I am open here and then and do not have anything to hide. You HAVE been banned from here and seemingly have something to hide there (you do post Anonymously)... so do tell... is your banning information first hand?

 

Criminals got more rights then newbie DMOZ editors, criminals are actually allowed to defended themselves in front of neutral judge and jury and punishment usually fits the crime, not to mention they are actually allowed to know what crime have they committed in the first place and hear evidence against them, at DMOZ editors are kept in the dark while metas play judge, jury and executioner beacuse there is only one punishment - removed forever.

And if you dare to raise your voice against it metas will abuse guidelines to write bogus excuses or blatant lies in order to delete or at lest keep in unreviewed forever any website editor has - it is really amusing how by the same guidelines I was able to get 9 deeplinks before I even become editor but now by abusing those same guidelines almost all of them are gone - it is interesting that people who are suppose to be doing their best are the ones who are doing the abuse, kind like real world politics.

Only thing they really care about at DMOZ are meta's ego.

 

While I agree with rest of your post, I can not totally agree with this part, since they also care about controlling commercially attractive categories and making money by listing their own sites or selling links on freelance sites.

 

Sites are listed and/or removed for the end user and the actions of the webmaster has NOTHING to do with it. This means that the geocities pages listed in those categories are worth checking out while your original content properly hosted is not. Just making sure you understand the editor mindset

 

They are doing it for the good cause, all the money goes to Cayman islands account so that when evil AOL decides to shut down DMOZ they can buy it and save it!

Or maybe we should just report them to IRS, I bet they would be happy to see if someone is making extra cash without paying taxes, same as Al Capone - tax evasion is worse crime then murder.

 

Does DMOZ ever let you know whether or not you were accepted? Does anyone know how long it takes for them to make a decision? 6 months? Just guessing here. Thanks.

 

No, but if you annoy, I mean ask the editors 3 times a day when you will be, they will likely get really giddy and just list you.

 

No we do not inform people if they have been accepted or rejected. People make suggestions we review them when an editor works in that area.

Taking Mia's advice could get you banned as a spammer though, if you want a quick way of being rejected.

 

Oh come on, you know that always works...

(for those editors at DMOZ that are really fucking clueless about anything and everything, here is a nice link listed in DMOZ that deals specifically with SARCASM: http://search.dmoz.org/cgi-bin/sear...&cs=UTF-8&cat=Society/Subcultures/Anti_Social)

 

I see my post got penalized as Attacking/Harassing Other Members, I wonder if metas had to add some spam listings in exchange for moderator service?

Using that method I should have reported markhood posts as making personal attacks with false accusations.

 

" Attacking/Harassing Other Members "

Generally means that you have likely offended a pal of a moderator, or just said something they disagree with.

 

Yes. Talking about what DMOZ really is seems to be itchy for some people with moderator profile. In fact, former DMOZ editors are allowed to insult other members using the reputation tool.

 

Got another one for older post, they really don't like truth to be told, since they can't shut me up with nonexistent evidence they've turned to censorship and finding some moderator pals to do the their dirty work...

I wonder what will be next? Hiring some local thugs to beat me up? At lest I'll join club of several politicians and journalists who got trashed for daring to expose corruption which is tied to highest positions in our government (which works very similarly to meta forum ) and of course police somehow never manages to solve these crimes.

 

Mafia is mafia into government and into DMOZ.

 

I still wonder why we even give DMOZ any credit for any contribution to anything on planet earth or beyond? At this point are they really a factor with regard to search in any capacity? Does their content lend any influence what so ever to Google or any SE for that matter? Do they matter? Are they even relevant anymore?

I'd have to say, probably not at all. Seems to me DMOZ is dead. Dead in the sense that its content is outdated, non-existent and or just crap for the most part. Dead in the sense that its no longer properly maintained, if maintained at all. Dead in the sense that nothing in it is fresh or new.
Dead in the sense that being listed there carries no more weight than being listed in any other directory with equal or less caliber.

 

I agree with you, Mia. Neither do I know whether DMOZ has any impact on SEO today. But even if it does, it's getting weaker every day. Large directories are dying or being abandoned today. In a couple of years there will be specialized directories only.

DMOZ is dying as its traffic has been declining in the last years.