Get listed in DMOZ in a week

LOL. You oughta go into motivational speaking. You're a natural.

 

I always submit my site to DMOZ and sometimes they get listed, other times they don't. When they do get listed it usually takes a few months.

Are the DMOZ editors all volunteers or are they paid? Maybe it depends on the speed of the editor reviewing the submissions.

 

Maybe they should work on figuring out some sort of compensation for the DMOZ editors to give them a little motivation. I guess I can't blame them, it is hard to do something for free.

 

I apologize for saying the editors were lazy. Before I said that I thought they were getting paid. No hard feeling guys.

 

Just razzin ya a little, dadougalee, . I know a lot of you don't understand why it takes so long, and waiting for anything drives me nuts too, but, we do sympathize with you, and wish we had more help.

But, believe it or not, there are bad guys out there, so the Directory has to be careful in granting editor privileges, as much for your own protection as for the Directories protection. That's beyond my simple paygrade to discuss, but a bank manager has to be much more careful about who he hires, than perhaps a factory manager has to be. The trust has to be there, before it's given.

 

Sure if ODP want to motivate me with money about a thousand bucks a review ought to be a starter, forget it for less. Now to do it because I want to do the review, I enjoy doing the review, I get great satisfaction from building the directory and all for free as a hobby, well I'll settle gladly for that anytime. I just sometimes get afraid they moght discover how much we enjoy doing all this and start charging us to be editors.

 

Omg, if they charged the editors to review sites, there would be no hope for anyone!

 

By bad guys, do you mean so many of "senior" editors who are busy adding their own sites and selling links?

If that is beyond your "simple pay grade" and you have nothing to say then why do you even post? Is there something in your pay grade that says praising the "leaders" in internal forum, RZ and the new DMOZ blog is not enough and you should do it in DP too, so you can get a higher "pay grade"?

 

Nice try, but I have no buttons you can push, .

 

I thought I hit a nerve earlier. Good to see I didn't offend you.

 

Life is too short to get offended, . Now, tell me I can't have any supper, and we're on, .

 

I know, I was just asking a question.

 

seems like something like that would prevent you from getting listed, ...

 

I never look at who the submitter is, t2000q, and insulting editors on outside forums doesn't have any effect, one way or another, on the listability of a site suggestion submitted to us.

Each site is judged only on it's content, not it's ownership. Anything less would not be considered unbiased editing.

All kinds of reasons and speculation are given by non editors as to why a site might not have gotten listed yet, or what might be wrong with a site, when the truth of the matter is that ghosts are being seen where there are no ghosts, an editor just hasn't reviewed the site suggestion yet.

 

Thats interesting...

In another thread you say:

Sites are most certainly removed even if there was no content change... But it does seem that the change of ownership is grounds for a sites removal. So who owns a site is certainly important to you and DMOZ in general, and does play a roll in the way the ODP works.

 

As Q stated your statements change from thread to thread...

With such moral authority editing at DMOZ we can sleep safely.

Don't forget they are also keeping a list of ex-editor websites - nope ownership has no influence at all.

 

I have try many times submitted my blog.. But never approved.. I don't have money to pay for editor.. Now I am tired..

 

It's not a consideration for me, personally, because it's not part of what I do when editing. It's totally irrelevant.

I have no personal knowledge if sites are delisted because of a change in ownership or not, but it's certainly a very logical step, in my opinion, and I'm all for it. I think the content on a site possibly changing to something else is a very good reason to delist and investigate it. Not deleted necessarily, but delisted temporarily for investigation.

Sites are reexamined all the time, it's a normal QC issue. Mainly looking for expired urls, parked sites, hijacked sites, and redirects (if a site has changed urls and left some breadcrumbs to the new url).

There's no contradiction in statements I've made, if you look at them in context because I tell the truth as I see it, and I'm always willing to be corrected by other editors, and I'll openly admit to any mistakes or misinformation made by myself, but I don't see any in this case.

It's more important to me to be honest and accurate, than to have any false pride, .

I'm not familiar with the blogs section of the Directory, Overclock099, but if you click on "Descriptions" on the page you submitted to, it should give you some good information about what is or is not accepted there.

I can tell you that submitting the same site over and over again would be considered spamming the Directory. It's not appreciated, it won't help you get listed, and it may even cause you to be banned.

Attempting to pay an editor will gaurantee a ban.

 

Is it possible to see if there's a pending request on DMOZ related to a certain website?
Thank you

 

I think they are. Or maybe they are waiting for....hmmmmmm....you know what I mean.