Oh it would be way more than half. As I mentioned in another thread here, I found and added over 20,000 sites to the directory when I was an editor, and I doubt that more than a thousand or so were suggested by non-editors. The ODP invites suggestions from everyone, as a way of helping volunteers find sites meeting the selection criteria, but editors are encouraged to look for good sites in all sorts of places, and the pool of suggestions is merely one place that can look if they want to. Nothing more.
I´m Editor for Dmoz.org Please read this: Dmoz.org/help/submit.html is your read this your site add good
I got added in 2 hours after I submitted my site I was just roaming around in there and suddenly saw my site was listed right then and there
Depending on the category, your great grand children may see your backlinks if your site is willed to them.
Hi, We cannot predict on how long it will take to get listed on Dmoz. You have to read the guidelines carefully and submit the site accordingly. Regards Indu Nair
lol not quite that bad. Throw 200,000 marbles on the floor. Could you predict which ones would be picked up first and in what order? Add to that, the fact that editors aren't acting as a listing service, but building useful categories for the web surfer, and that editors do not want all sites, and will not list all sites in doing that, and you get a different perspective. So, you've got two barriers to pass. First, is your site one we actually need to build the category, and secondly, when will an editor be working in that area and see it. Some editors edit one small category (usually the newer editors) and some float over hundreds or thousands of categories, like a butterfly. When and where they land can be very random, unless they're deliberately working in one specific area. Why is that? Well, hell, look at the numbers, 600,000 categories, 6,000 editors, over 5 million websites, we ain't magicians ya know. Best advice? Quit yer bitchin and become an editor. Do 20,000 edits, then you'll have a right to bitch at yourself for not doing more, , but I think your perspective will change after the first 50 edits, lol. I wasn't happy with my own performance as an editor so I just fired myself again, but I have the right to do that. Maybe in two or three years, when I have more spare time ....
Well said, crowbar, although I'm sorry to hear you've decided to take another break from editing. Maybe it won't be as long as 2-3 years before you are ready to go back. As for me, I'm moving a step further away from ODP by leaving this forum. It's been a pleasure doing my little bit to answer questions and provide information, but it's time to move on. Thank you to those who refrained from being rude to me, and to those who even went so far as to be friendly. Not what I expected at all. I wish you all the best.
Right behind ya, makrhod, I just come here for my amusement anymore. Sorry I ever bought a computer, I used to do a lot of reading. I think I'll grab a few books and spend my free time out by the water garden reading them, .
Refer the site at my sig to him please. How come you can become one? My english is better. No!! LOL That is totally absurb.. plus unfair unless of course if your website is really cool something like have around 1Million results in Yahoo and Google, PR7?
More than half the sites that get added to DMOZ were never submitted in the first place. Do you think that is absurd as well?
I think the point was they dont need to.... they have plenty of submited ones in the 1st place. hence this thread.
Actually, editors don't need to use submitted sites at all. We're perfectly capable of finding them out on the Internet ourselves. Fairness has nothing to do with it, and PR and traffic are non issues that are never considered, they have absolutely nothing to do with whether we want or need the site in that category. We do not give a rats behind about your wants, needs, or desires, it's a non issue. Editors build categories of useful sites (in their opinion, not yours) for web surfers looking for certain information. It has nothing to do with you, it has everything to do with them. We may or may not find your site useful to list, there is no "my turn", you either have what we want or you don't. We have total discretion over who gets listed, and we'll look at it or not look at it in our own time frame, not yours. Editors work if and when they want to, and they are only accountable to the Directory and each other, no one else. No one, who is not actively working to build the Directory, has any right to bitch about the work that others are doing freely in their spare time. Grab a shovel and dig a few ditches, and you'll have the right to make a few informed comments, but even then, your knowledge will be so limited that you should take care in what you say.
DMOZ is taking such a long time. I've submitted my site nearly 3 weeks already and no response. I need to bribe somebody.. LOL
Nice of you to give notice, much faster to ban people when they're honest about their intentions. Hey, at least you won't have to waste your time waiting anymore.
You don't have to worry about me, I'm no longer an editor, 6 years is enough, . But, there are meta editors who hang out here, and they take such things very seriously, .
Pretty informative stuff here fellas. I added myself a few months ago, but it's nice to know that I might be added someday.