Anyone here become DMOZ editor before? If yes, what is the benefits? Please let me know as I want to apply too. Thanks
A few editors visit here The benifits................ You get to catalogue the website for surfers and enjoy a hobbie that is not only fun, but also helpful to other people. The downsides..........constant emails from webmasters begging for assistance and then abusing you when you dont reply to them. If you're really lucky you get accused of being lazy, corrupt, listing only your own sites and not publishing your competitors, listing spam and deleting really good sites, except when they are "down" or under construction. That's on a GOOD day
It's a challenging and satisfying hobby but the benefits are entirely in ones mind apart from getting to borrow the black helicopter occasionally.
Only if you are accepted to work in that category. Great to build a new category of sites which are about subjects that you know something about and have a passion for.
And you can obviously only publish your own site if it complies to the guidelines, is not unfairly promoted and is clearly declared as being a site that you are affiliated with
First you should know that if you are become Editor, DMOZ request you never release that you are. If not, they might canceled your account forever.
So how come none of the editors who identify that they are editors have had their accounts cancelled? Are you making this up?
Thanks! I m Although many times I try to sleep only in U.S. editors do not have accepted that recommendation?
Hello everyone. The benefits are just the personal satisfaction. It is possible that if you edit a section in which you are interested, you have a website or work on something, you may benefit in some way: by listing your site, and / or eliminating competition sites, but there is always meta-editors that monitor the movements of the new editors. I think, as I said above that the only reward is personal satisfaction.
Personal satisfaction and a sense of "power" that some people like a lot. It is a position of power, you choose the fate of the websites of people that are really keen on satisfying your standards.
Not really, cause half of the sites that i publish would never even of heard of DMOZ. We do it because it can be fun, i spend heaps of time surfing and browsing sites of interest and i can publish a well organised list of websites in case someone else needs information. It certainly isnt a power trip...... Lets say you want information on a cancer support group in Australia cause your Mum is sick. Google it up and you probably get a lot of not so good spammy sites, but look in DMOZ and you get the best sites for your perusal http://www.dmoz.org/Health/Conditions_and_Diseases/Cancer/Organizations/Oceania/Australia/ Building a cat like this is fun, its also helpful to web surfers
There are no benefits. I reflect with sadness on the months that I spent adding categories and links that no one will ever visit. All this work emptying queues, writing descriptions, taking on more categories, working on collective projects on categories I knew nothing about... for all intents and purposes I might as well have spent this time in a jail cell - I might have done something more useful to society by embossing license plates for $5 a day. The value to society of wasting the precious time of your life away is ZERO. The value to yourself is minus 100%. It's not an accomplishment. I look back at that period in my life with some shame and embarrassment. I wish instead that I would have read some good books, worked more in the garden, or learned Icelandic. The benefits are entirely in one's mind alright, like figments of one's imagination... you can borrow the black helicopter on occasion, but there are tinfoil hats for everyone. Especially if anyone but yourself has laid eyes on it since 2002, which is highly doubtful.
Snooks, your example is definitely an unsettling one and I agree with you. I was just referring to the sites that are in fact submitted by the public. You decide whether they are accepted or not. And obviously some very experienced editors do not see it as a power trip, but the fact is the following, you (or we, I might add) are in a position of power amongst the normal internet users. It is not in vain that this forum is filled with posts about DMOZ and its editors. That you in particular dont feel the need to recognize that position of power, doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Anyway, just clearing up my point, I do not wish to question you, you are most likely a higher ranking and better editor than myself.
For it to be a position of power, it would have to have power over something of VALUE. It's not the case. It is not a position of power. It's lording over something at once useless, and meaningless. The whole ODP is completely inconsequential.
Useless and meaningless? As others have pointed out, there is a reason for Google´s recognition of the value of ODP. There is also a reason why thousands of editors voluntarily give their time to that task. If it is inconsequential to you, I deem it harsh for you to place zero value on the work of so many editors during so much time. If DMOZ had an initial public offering and became public, do you think no one would spend a penny on it? Even if this example has problems, I can bet a great deal of money on the fact that "valueless", is not a word that should be used to describe ODP/DMOZ.
Google doesn't recognize the "value" of the ODP. It's not because it's keeping an antique directory deep down in its website basement that never sees any visitors, that it's worth something - it's probably a reflection that it doesn't cost anything. Because it's worthless. Editing ODP is a lot like playing an extreme lo-tech, 1995 version of World of Warcraft. The ODP has no visitors. No one views those precious categories you're wasting your time on. And you're not helping those sites with extra PR juice, either. The truth is harsh sometimes. One day, after you've transferred your time wasted on the ODP to a more productive, and therefore satisfying activity, you'll thank me.
And that is why G. removed DMOZ from top search results 3 years ago, right? I hope you are not saying that they just have no personal life Nobody is taking away from them what they are doing at DMOZ. The issue in here is how. As a part of AOL, DMOZ is a public offering DMOZ value is limited to 1 backlink and nothing more fastreplies
well I am waiting for submission of my site http://www.sportsstatsblog.com/ since last year but nothing is happening! I redesigned, re uploaded content but still result is same!