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I've submited 2 feedback report in the past, but nothing has ever happened. Has anyone ever had feedback from the feedback form, and what sort of timescales should I be looking at? thanks.
I didn't know about the resource zone....I do now :)
Please fill out this form instead, and it will be looked into.
1) Send a PM (its like a sticky mail) from resource zone to a Meta/ Edit all. Don't even think of droping URLs in resource zone complaining about spam or abuse!
2) Write to the Editor's of the main categories or/and the root category i.e. Arts, Business, Computers etc. (the one listed on home page of ODP in bold)
The cat. that I took over recently at dmoz (no editor previously) had one site listed no less that 6 times!
That was not editor abuse - the 6 listings had been added by several different EditAlls over a period of time. They were just cloaked URL's to the same set of pages.
For someone who does not regularly edit a cat. that can sometimes be hard to spot.
It's foul play by the webmaster, not a dmoz editor.
TJ
Now thats only to report a Editor abuse.
Not necessarily. To begin with, oftentimes a large amount of abusive sites listed is due to editor abuse.
But more to the point the abuse report form can be used to report both editor abuse and abusive listings. Since all abuse reports are stored in a central repository, every meta editor can access it. It's more effective than PM'ing a single meta, since that particular meta may not have time to look into abuse at that moment.
I wouldn't say so at all from my experience as an editor at the ODP. Sometimes it is just a lack of experience, and sometimes it's just really hard to spot cloaked/mirror/affiliate sites/etc... Webmasters are getting better at doing this every day, and it is one of the key things that slows down the submission process at the ODP.
Plus, if there is suspect of editor abuse, the links above provide an avenue to have the issue looked into and resolved. The staff, metas, and editors at dmoz don't just let people get away with abusing the directory. I also think that this is not the place to be discussing the issue, so I'll end my commentary here. :)
Yes, please! And there's a good reason for this: Often, you simply don't have any way of knowing whether it's editor abuse or submitter abuse. And even if we figured out, we wouldn't tell you...we just want to hear about it, to get it _fixed_, whatever caused it.
2) Write to the Editor's of the main categories or/and the root category i.e. Arts, Business, Computers etc. (the one listed on home page of ODP in bold)
Not the answer you wanted but...
Why not try and get multiple DMOZ listings too?
You can spend every day of every week watching your competitors. Put in the time and build more and more content and make sure they spend *their* time watching you.
Smiley
I can see the reasoning from a submitter's standpoint, but *please* note that this is one of the many reasons editors become so bogged down with sites to review, and could be a colossal waste of your time and ours if the deeplinks are for any reason not listable under the ODP guidelines.
Um, the submittal policies give some concrete reasons why not. Would you, in the worst instance, enjoy having all of your listings, and all the listings of anyone who appears to have done business with you, removed? permanently?
There is a gradation of penalties for, um, passive-aggressive types (passive on the content creation side, that is, and aggressive on the promotional side), and we don't often "shoot the varmint and the horse he rode in on" -- we just do whatever it takes to protect the editors and let them get on with building a directory.
Um, the submittal policies give some concrete reasons why not...
The next paragraph is:
You can spend every day of every week watching your competitors. Put in the time and build more and more content and make sure they spend *their* time watching you.
Reading the two paragraphs together, I understood the post to be sarcastic.
No?
Not the answer you wanted either but... why not spend the time improving your own site and SEO instead of seeking ways to grass on others (whose advice by the way you may even be asking for on this message board!).
It's bad enough with people rushing to try to squeal to Google like teachers pets because they can't beat their competitors, but now the ODP? Jeez!
I frankly hope that you continue to get absolutely nowhere in your totally negative efforts.
I'd say that 90% of the time a webmaster cries "abuse" though, it ain't. It's either sour grapes or sloppy editing. In this case it sounds like the latter.
