Contacting editor question

[scorpion]

What is the procedure for contacting an editor for following up your site submission? Do you just use the feedback form at bottom of all categories?

Also is there a tool that tells you where you are in the review 'queue' at dmoz? It would be nice to know...

[Laisha]

Welcome, scorpion!

What is the procedure for contacting an editor for following up your site submission?

At the bottom of the category, there is a line that says "Category editors:" followed by a list of the editors in that categoty. Click on any of those names, and that will take you to that person's profile.

At the top of the page, directly under the name of the editor is a link for feedback.

If there are no editors listed, go up one level, and so forth until you find someone listed.

Don't get your hopes up too high: many editors do not answer correspondence from submitters.

Good luck. :)

[martinibuster]

I've written to one editor, and this one answered me. And I've answered a couple emails sent to myself as well. Of course, be polite, don't argue and limit yourself to one communication attempt.

Probably the reason an editor won't answer you is if they'd had the unpleasant experience of communicating with someone who won't quit NAGGING until they have it their way, rude, etc.

[multex]

The "feedback" goes to staff--which is a supervisor, a programmer, and a bunch of poorly fed hamsters running the servers. You may confidently expect not to get a response from 99.999% of the mail sent there.

Contacting an editor is less certain. Some editors never respond, some sometimes respond. They are volunteers, and they volunteered to edit, not necessarily to correspond. If you don't get a response in 3-4 weeks, nobody will think ill of you if you e-mail an editor in the parent category. (and so on.)

[Finder]

I actually had a good experience. I updated my listing and waited two months without seeing it change. Since my category had no editor, I went up one and wrote a very polite email to that editor. I got a reply in a couple of days and he thanked me for bringing it to his attention. My listing was updated immediately.

Hopefully Google will refresh their odp data soon so I can cut down on some 404's. :)

[scorpion]

all i can say is, <edit> dmoz and go with Yahoo! For a free service like Dmoz you get what you pay for: lousy, iffy service. With Yahoo express you get guaranteed 7 day review and from my experiences with it, almost 99% chance of inclusion. Plus you get just as good google ranking from Yahoo as from dmoz, if not better.

[edited by: NFFC at 1:56 pm (utc) on Sep. 18, 2002]
[edit reason] Edited extreme rudeness [/edit]

[Quadrille]

Ignoring the gratuitous insults ... ;)

Plus you get just as good google ranking from Yahoo as from dmoz, if not better.

... Does anyone know the truth of that?

[ettore]

Trying to ignore the gratuitous insults, or avoid the possibility of being insulted in following emails, is actually one of the many reasons for most editors prefer not to engage in direct correspondence with submitters.

In most cases you get what you paid for, in some cases -- unfortunately -- you get what others didn't really pay for, but were so nice to make it happen...

[shelleycat]

When I was wondering about the status of a site I submitted, I followed some advice I found here and went to the ODP forum (http://resource-zone.com/) and posted a polite query in the appropriate place. I received a quick and informative reply about my site within half an hour :)