I don't know anyone in the public who uses DMOZ or who has even heard of it -- and I've worked in the online business going all the way back to dialup bulletin boards. The only people who discuss DMOZ are people on forums like this one who manage their own sites. I submitted a site more than a year ago, and it hasn't gone live. OK, I understand they are backed up or it wasn't good enough. Then I submitted an application to be an editor and was rejected without reason. I submitted a second application for another category, and this time I received a polite response from an editor. He said that the category I applied for was too large at 117 listings. Six months later, the category still has 117 listings. OK, I understand it's human edited and they get plenty of submissions. But don't encourage submissions and not act on them; don't encourage editor applications, reject them and leave the category dead six months later; and don't encourage the likes of Alexa, Google directory and others to use only DMOZ, which gives the "in sites" a huge advantage over the outs. I have no doubt there are good people working on DMOZ, but in truth the way the site is set up encourages a fair amount of frustration and even some hostility. BTW, the page in DMOZ where my site belongs has a PageRank of 0. The same page in the Google directory has a PageRank of 5. I suggest that DMOZ just isn't worth the worry anymore.
Who says they dont act? They just didnt accept your submission, but what about the numerous others that were accepted?.....there is a difference. You would certainly have been provided a reason, either generic list or a specific reason, as you mentioned about the category being too big. The hostility comes from people who dont get what they want. So how is that the fault of dmoz? It isnt! Its only a link. They dont care about PR and serps, just the building of a directory. Its webmasters like you, that get worked up about the PR issues.
Oh I thought that RZ was run by DMOZ, oh well. Frankly I think that refusing people who are genuinely interested in helping and making excuses about backlog is hypercritical.
They did not give me a reason for my rejection otherwise I would be able to pinpoint the issue. Also a generic list is not good enough, they should be more helpful to potential volunteers.
<sigh> Yes they did, I checked. It's at least one of the ones in the list of common reasons that was included in the email. Let me remind you of what I already told you in item15 of this thread.
Its ran by DMOZ editors, but if you look there is a disclaimer on the site saying that it in fact no more official then any other forum ran by DMOZ editors (Like DP for instance... this forum is owned by a DMOZ editor). Any place that editors post is just about as good as any other place. The only difference is with editor applications, as most editors will not give you two bits about your application status in any place other then RZ... The only official ANYTHING for the ODP has to have DMOZ.ORG as the domain....which pretty much means, it's guidelines (with no place to comment at), the directory itself (with an unofficial 'contact the editor' link in an editors profile), and their blog (which you can reply too, but heh, have you seen it?)
Jim, they gave me a canned response containing a list, that is not a reason to me. How do I know the actual reason was on the list? I don't! Sorry if I sound like a paranoid conspiracy theorist but I still think that not giving a personal comment which takes about ten seconds to write is unreasonable and downright rude. Frankly I really don't believe your quotation at all, my application should definitely had been accepted (in my opinion) if that had any truth to it.
Well for me getting in dmoz is next to impossiable.. I think they only send out rejection letters all day lol.
Well I am agree with Q. Everyone wants his/her site to be listed in DMOZ so there are a lotz of submission on daily basis And this may cause these things. But the editors are really doing well.