I apologize, I took this to mean that you put a lot of effort into getting sites (plural) listed. Even spending great effort to get a single site listed implies spamming, so I guess I just don't understand what you mean. If you submit only the website of the affiliate program you manage and you only do it a couple of times, then that's not a problem. But, it also doesn't seem like something I'd consider spending great effort. DMOZ really isn't about marketing, so the fact that you're going to get your next customer from google and not from DMOZ is true, and it's ok with us. The system is working.
If you were / are a DMOZ editior why not just write the person in charge ??? You came to DP to post about your responsibility over at DMOZ???? It is starting to smell like BS in here Anyone else need hip waders????
Yes, he would surely be banned, Again. I hope someday he'll trust me enough to give me detailed information so I can work on it. He's given many clues, but I'm not as savvy as he is. I need it all spelled out for me. me/ hands gworld a nice freshly baked cookie
You're right about DMOZ having a purpose other than marketing. It does well in certain areas indexing the material but not every category is well maintained. Some are unfortunately spammed and others just neglected. Perhaps if it became commercialized and could afford to hire and pay people to do the work it may have become a much more successful library of info.
Not everything in this world has to become commercialised to be successful. As far as most honest editors are concerned the purpose of DMOZ is anti-commercialism, removing money from the equation so the end result should be an unbiased resource of original content. Unfortunately the execution of the concepts has identified many flaws in the plan and DMOZ is structured so as to actively prevent radical shifts in policy to overcome the flaws. What it needs is professional management and refocusing on those areas it does well at, which tend to include non-commercial categories and parts of Regional. When you introduce a commercial directory way of doing things DMOZ simply becomes another Yahoo directory. Does the world need another Yahoo directory? No, it has the Yahoo directory for that.
Having that cash directed to charity would make lot more sense, editors would get that warm fuzzy filling that they are actually doing something useful each time they review a listing and webmasters would give that extra cash they don't know what to do with on someone that really needs it. It would attract many new editors wanting to do some charity work and webmaster would finally get there listings in normal time - everyone would be happy and World would be a better place.
No, it still introduces a need to pay and ability to pay negates the purpose of something like DMOZ. There are other ways of attracting new editors, many of them. Wherever the money goes it still introduces the idea of DMOZ providing a service to webmasters and that is the opposite of the basic concepts. The listings are not there for the benefit of webmasters, only for the benefit of surfers looking for unique information. Switching off submissions to all commercial categories, removing altogether Adult and other high spam categories, those would be a start. Complying with COPPA in the interests of protecting kids would be another good move.
Paying could be limited to commercial/spam categories and/or if you wanted your site reviewed (not automatically listed) ASAP - it would be a simple method of cutting down on when is my site going to be listed spam. Allowing people to defended themselves before removal... not for me, this is just one of gworld alias anyway (as is brizzie, annie, poptalk, ministrel...).
The fact about Dmoz is true that just submit your site to dmoz and forget as it took a long period of time to get listed. But there is one shortcoming in dmoz that if you submit your site again you get black listed.Phew!is there any method to get listed easily on dmoz. If any please free to post it here.
This would be nice if it happened but there was no such thing while I was editor so unless they introduced it during last three months...
One re-suggestion won't cause a site to banned. It takes excessive and aggressive re-suggestions for a site to be tagged as a spammer. Spammers will aggressively be banned.