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I felt my services were of value, being a "just the facts, mam" type of guy and afterall I was an expert in the category.
A senior editor, stamped on each additon I made to the directory.
I wrote the senior editor to find out what I was doing wrong and after no response, I silently dropped out.
Lately, submitting a site to the OPD showed no response, according to my log files. I honored the request not to resubmit until three weeks.
Rather than submitting to the same category, I shopped around for a new category that had a different editior.
I submitted to that category and was VERY pleased with the results.
The OPD volunteer program is a great concept, yet when many of our (and most of all our clients) livelihoods rely on its actions, it (should) must perform to its mission.
In all fairness, I have had problems with "pay for services" but what really irrates me is the arrogance and neglingence of SOME of the OPD editors.
Any Volunteer Progam requries a tremendous amount of dedication and a commitment of the senior members to nurture new members. Its a big job, but the OPD has taken in on and my hopes are that improvements are on the way.
We are not a forum for airing grievances with the ODP. That is not us. If you have a problem - take it up with them - not here. This is a friendly place. We are a forum dealing with submission of sites to the ODP and how to achieve the best results as it relates to webmasters and site administration.
Specially with posts about ODP editor complaints, ex-editors complaints and complaints about other peoples listings. This is my suggestions to those who feel that they want to air their feelings over those issues:
ODP editor complaints - Write to the editor above that person or contact one of the meta editors.
Ex-editors - There is at least one forum that is made for that. I do not post the address, dunno if it is OK or not?
Other peoples listings - If you think some one elses sites are treated unfair (key word stuffed titles, descriptions or deep linking) Write to the editor above or to a meta editor.
Editors, and complaints and all that ODP business related stuff is for the ODP, not us. Sure, that leaves some gray area, but issues involving greivances with ODP policy and/or editors is for the ODP, not here. Same is true for Yahoo and Looksmart.
No, don't do that. As someone with an inside view of the ODP you can help us all to make sure that our submissions hit the right spot and not throw up flags.
Help everyone here with getting their submissions right, why not throw a post in the "Thy Shalt Not" [webmasterworld.com] thread. When you were editing what used to *really* tick you off about a submission, what sites were a joy to list etc etc.
