Ok Ok Ok, so I have engaged in conversations where I debated the virtue of DMOZ, heck Ive even blogged about it (please note I have never personally said I disapproved, or accused DMOZ of being cr*ppy) But during January, no less than THREE of my sites got a DMOZ listing... without being applied for. thats 7 or 8 now that have DMOZ listings that I own, and thats something Im quite happy about. so thanks guys, a big hug from me, keep up the good work. *** SEE SOME PEOPLE ARE HAPPY ***
You got listed without submitting your site you must be the luckiest webmaster on the planet go to the casino dude
LOL, I run online casinos mate for a living..... so I just cant lose I guess LMAO! But, all I can recommend is having a good site
Some of my very old sites were listed automatically in DMOZ without ever applying but those I applied never managed to get through
I see a lot of posts mentioning that such and such site got listed and it was never submitted. I also hear that Editors do not have to even review their queue. The other thing I hear a lot is that such and such a site that WAS submitted never made it in. While I think that some of the problem is that many sites submitted are simply not worthy of being added in ANY directory, that certainly can not be all of the problem. I think that the fact (some?) editors do not bother with the Queue may be compounding the issue... It often makes me wonder just how many worthy sites are over looked in the queue, and just how many sites that are/were in the queue are found by editors on the net and added, regardless of the queue. All in all, this can make some wonder if the queue is even needed, and that possibly that 'submit' link is only there as a pacifier for the wayward webmaster... and if that is the case, then heh, it seems to not be working all that much I wonder what the actual statistics are for the number of sites added vs. the number of sites submitted.
Nice post, Q...some sense here - sure you wrote it? Well, I DO NOT HAVE TO DO nothing. I have to follow our Guidelines - not rules. Personally I added around 3500 sites /not all are mine ones / and from them less than 400 are from submissions. One of the reasons is that I prefer to "hunt" for good ones, the other is that where I can edit there are not a lot of submissions, and the last reason are "spammy" submissions. They made me nervous...there are categories - huge ones - without single pending site, there are also cats with a lot of "greens". Thats all. Its very common to see that "hunted" and listed sites are in the queue... Yes, it is. Long queue is indicator for senior editors to take attention about. Regards
Believe it or not, I actually am FOR the directory rather then against it...I just have an odd way of going about things some times... Yeah, that's confusing as well. Kind of makes some people wonder if the guidelines are even needed.
Some people wonder about a lot of things...about politics, Democracy, Eternity, sport scores...we cant help them. Before applying for editor I read and understand the idea of these Guidelines. After becoming editor understand them better. Havent problem with them. Dont know why you have, in case that you are part of these wondering people...
this is the third or fourth time that this has happened to me, why is that every discussion about the ODP has to degenerate into an argument about some aspect of it. The original post: Im happy, I got more sites listed, I never even asked. Let me just bask in the glory people, lets not argue, just spread the love
Sorry about that, but heh, as far as things go in this thread, it was pretty much friendly banter I was not planning on pressing the issue, and I'd assume either was budalata. Bask away And congrats on your listing.
no need for the apologies guys! I will reapply to be an editor one of these days and hopefully I will be able to contribute something to the community from the inside! cheers!! MOG
From several days to a couple of years. No, and they won't tell you if you've been accepted. Look at it this way, there's a couple of hundred thousand marbles laying on the floor, you own one of them, which ones gets picked up next is impossible to predict. The good news is that you have an equal chance right along with every other marble. They're all on the same level playing field.
Assuming the hundred thousand marbles are on the floor scattered, how do you pick them up one by one or would you use a tool to do it or would you use human volunteers to clean up the scattered marbles to open up the space ? Would there be a timetable as you won't like someone or somebody slipping the floor and having an accident.
I've listed sites that had been submitted just a few days before. Some editors can only edit in one small category, like a small city or a small specific topic that they have an interest in, such as watergardening or rock and roll muscians, and others, like myself, might edit in very wide areas where we're dealing with 100,000 sites. In the first case, they have very limited access to sites, but they do have the opportunity (if they want to, not all do) to expand those editing permissions to wider areas, and they are encouraged, but not required to. They do have to show an understanding and ability of editing to be granted further permissions. In the second case, an editor with wide permissions, has many other tasks and responsibilities to take care of besides just reviewing site suggestions that have been submitted, including trying to mentor and encourage newer editors to take on wider permissions, creating new categories, links between categories, resolving dead urls across a wide area, spell checks, moving misplaced sites down to the lower categories where those smaller category editors can reach them, hunting down mirrors and redirects, engaging in projects with other editors, giving opinion and help on editing issues that come up, and many other Directory related issues. Even when someone like myself decides to review site suggestions, I'm presented with tens of thousands to choose from, across the width of the United States, and I'm easily distracted from that when I find problems with a category that needs to be taken care of, mainly because you never know when another editor may visit it, so it's best to deal with it right then. Then, the phone rings, or a customer pulls in, and I may not get back to editing that day. I do have a real life and real bills to pay, .
Then you should prioritize what to do in a day. When you brush your teeth try to finish brushing it, don't get distracted and let the brushing be unfinished or putting a deodorant in one of your armpit getting distracted would leave only one armpit with deodorant and the other none. It is a bad habit.