Open Directory Project? Why many people are having a tough time getting approved?

If you are unhappy about this, can I ask you why you are expecting anything at all from DMOZ (ie a listing)? What are you providing them in expectation of this service (ie a listing)? Why do webmaster actually expect anything for free and then complain when they don't get it? I do not understand the logic.

 

*boggle*

Thats because you are not an editor! You see, it's a hobby for them, and editors expect nothng less then to review sites for a listing. That's what they do! That's what they enjoy! The only payment they ever expect is the simple joy of collecting the best websites out there in a nice categorized fashion.

The FACT that is not actually how it works is the actual problem, and the problem does NOT lie with the submitter (webmaster or not). Want proof? Well, several editors here say over & over & over that they do not need to use the unreviewed queue to list sites...

So I guess, if you look at it with that in mind, the only expectation of the average submitter is to actually have their suggestion looked at in a timely manner... but then, if you look around at the editors that post here, that is simply too much to ask.

 

Very soon, the monoply of ODP goes away. My suggestion is - Google should stop crawling ODP because editors are corrupt and they lack attitude to reply back... pathetic

 

What monopoly does DMOZ have?

Have you volunteered to help at DMOZ? Why not? ...pathetic!

 

Says a fellow non-editor

 

I reported 3 dead URL's yesterday. I do help. Pathetic allegations you make.

 

Incorrect, one of you is an ex-editor and one a non-editor. By the way did you hear back if they wanted you again, Q? You seemed keen to rejoin if you applied for reinstatement. Fancy wanting to rejoin what you call a corrupt organisation based on editors wanting to get their sites listed as established by one of its founders, your ideas NOT mine, Still you did list your site last time and a couple of others, have you got some new ones?

 

Google does crawl it the ODP, as it should for any website, but hasn't given ODP special love since way back 10 full years ago. There is no longer a "monopoly" of the ODP. It doesn't matter whether editors are corrupt or not (and although many are over-the-top nutjobs, I believe very, very few could be labeled as corrupt), or whether they should have the courtesy to reply back.

A back link from a friend is easier to get and just as effective - with the added bonus that you might get referrals from your friend's site, when you're assured to never ever get any from ODP.

 

Had to do some work today with some DMOZ links. Man that place is a dump full of deeplinks (corrupt editors ??) full of old broken links anglefire ? haven't seen junk links like that scene the late 90s.

What a dive.

 

I don't know about corrupt editors, but DMOZ is indeed like a time machine. You can see why it would make sense for Google to ignore DMOZ completely, or at least give it no more than the same consideration it gives to any other collection of stale links anywhere on the internet.

 

What? Pathetic allegations? You are NOT an editor right? If that is a pathetic allegation, I'd hate to see what a substantiated one is with you *rolls eyes*

I help too... I suggest worthy sites, report broken ones, and report corrupt editors. I also have reapplied to be an editor and have yet to be officially declined.

LOL, what drugs to do you take? Seriously...

You say that as if listing ones own site IS a bad thing? I simply do not understand where you are coming from there. Look at the site founders and what they have listed. If listing ones own site is somehow wrong, then, erm, I'm following the examples of the leaders!

But then, listing my own site is a moot point is it not? Another editor removed it... now it's listed on it's OWN merit, so if I did something wrong, it's rather odd that it was allowed to remain for as long as it did, then when it was down for 15 minutes and an editor removed it, when it got re-reviewed, one would have thought it would have been rejected if there was something wrong with it... so lets get back to agent000's quote shal we?

Pathetic allegations you make.

If I did something wrong, then why do you defend Skentra & his 20k deep links? Seriously, put up ort SHUT UP! You are making the ODP look bad. You claim to be an edit-all, and you claim me listing my own sites is bad... yet I keep pointing out a sing le site based on the same thing yet to praise it? Funny you having double standards and all... must be you being a reverand?

 

Did they accept you back?

 

Are you ready to provide your editor name so as to back up your claims ?

 

What claims is that, I asked a question, you quoted it and Q has not replied. Please learn to read English.

 

Yes, I am an editor now. I have a profile page on the ODP and everything. Can you say the same?

Actually no... they have yet to accept me back. Yet they have yet to reject me as well. I would assume my app is sitting in the queue awaiting on editors like you that don't bother with the queue

But again, are you are editor? I keep seeing you say you are, yet I have yet to see anything to back that up. So if you can read english, put up or shut up?

 

Ask at RZ, surely you would like to put your public out of their misery of wondering.

 

DMOZ is absolutely unpredictable. One day you submit beginner 10-pages site and get approval in days, another time you submit PR4 high traffic 10000 pages web site and nothing. DMOZ is a monster now that doesn't know how many heads it has, what head is sic or dead. The truth is that nobody uses DMOZ for purposes it was made for. Our submissions just prolong this agony. Forget about DMOZ and let it die. RIP.

 

Ask what and to who? RZ is no more official then any other place that talks about the ODP.

I did have a meta editor contact me, we chatted for a bit, then he stopped replying without word one way or the other. That was MONTHS and MONTHS ago (as in early march). He tried convincing me that paid listings in the ODP did not exist just because there are completed transactions with positive feedback on sites like scriptlance. *shrug* I guess they simply would rather stop talking to me then accept the truth that there IS some corruption within their ranks...

So I guess, this all does tie in with the original question: Why many people are having a tough time getting approved? They are not using scriptlance?