Will DMOZ notify you if your site is accepted?

Since DMOZ has reopened for submissions I went ahead and submitted to them, but I didn't recieve any type of auto-confirmation email to the effect of, "Hi, we got your submission please wait for us to review it."

So, I am wondering if they will even send an email if/when/ever it gets listed?

 

I would like to know this as well.

Col

 

I never got any communications from Dmoz before. Why would they suddenly start opening communications now?

 

No. DMOZ will not notify you whether they received your submission, or it has been rejected nor if it is approved. I know for sure.

 

If the site is approved you will know because it will appear in the category most suited to it...

If when you submit you get the acknowledgement screen it means they received your submission. If you are that bothered then print it out, though it means zilch in terms of when the review might happen or the result.

A very small number of editors a very small number of times will contact a submitter concerning a submission - if it is particularly good maybe, or they want to list the site but can't on a technicality the webmaster can fix.

The only time an editor has semi-official encouragement to notify a submitter is if the site is selected as a "cool" site - one that is considered the definitive source on the category subject matter. The editor's form has an option to send an email and space for text.

If the site is rejected then it will usually be for either having insufficient unique content, because it is already listed somewhere (maybe under a different URL) or for breaching DMOZ rules on affiliates and mirrors. It is assumed the webmaster knows if their site has sparse content, is already listed, or is an affiliate or mirror, and will therefore be rejected - no email notification is needed.

 

hmmm. I also submitted recently. I haven't got any reply from them.

 

What sort of reply were you expecting?

 

you should sue them

 

Submitters are so rude! I've listed thousands of sites but do the owners ever bother to send a thank you note? NO!

It's not just the editors, bwahahahahaha

 

some have auto reply enabled and if the site contains accepted send a reply with Thank You Very Much .

 

If it was known to me whom actually listed my sites, I'd gladly send them a thank you note. But it's not public info, know what I mean?

 

they don't even notify you, if their site is closed/hacked.
Itz like chavez of Venezuelan

 

I've always notified the site owner when I come across a hacked site. This is information that really can make a difference. Also, all editors are not the same.

 

dmoz will not notify you when your site is accepted or rejected . you must check it

 

I want to thank Motsa for a great job.

 

DMOZ will not notify you.

And most editors don't want to receive email from site owners, as they are too busy to handle them.

And most emails just follow the lines of "Why hasn't my site been listed, it better than those that are listed" or "please drop everything and immediately list my site"

If you really want to help, volunteer to be an editor. But don't expect to use your editor status to promote your sites or you will quickly become an ex-editor.

Sorry, guess I'm tired as I'm usually not this direct.

ezgoing8

 

Quite right. But if their sites were listable then they will certainly stay listed since to remove a listable site is against guidelines regardless of how it got there. Nice reward. The way to make self-promotion a bit more painful would be to punish them by removing the sites they added that they were connected to regardless. I once had an editor beneath me in the branch openly tell me he was there only to list his son's site, no intention of doing anything else, timed out, and the site remained, untouchable. The only thing I could do about it was to list as many others as I could in the same locality so to diminish the advantage but he was pretty specialised. Being removed once a self-promoting editor has achieved their objective is no punishment at all.

 

/me now applies to be editor so as to list my not yet born kids site only... talk about muaaahaaa Those who want to get their sites listed contact me in near future (100 to 200 years from now) i will see what i can dooo....

 

Now I'm even more puzzled as to reasons for my removal since my website was already listed (9 times!) before I applied to give helping hand with constant URL changes my website is going through all the time. In the end I've listed almost 500 "competitors" beside two more deeplinks which would have gotten in on there own anyway... okay one wouldn't since category was missing.

And to think I could have only added my links without wasting my time on "competition", I could have simply created a dozen profiles and applied to them to each category I need site listed. Yep something is really wrong in how DMOZ handles things.

 

While it may be true that valid sites listed by an ex-editor will remain those sites that resulted in the editor being removed will also be removed at the same time the editor is removed.

The guidelines are quite clear. Self promotion will not be allowed, regardless of what level of editing you achieve nor how long you have been an editor.

Sites are removed from the listings for multiple reasons. Abuse by an editor is only one of them.