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I do not know what to do anymore, maybe my site does not meet there standards. Can Someone help me please. I also understand on how important it is to be listed in DMOZ.
I did notice in my logs something from DMOZ, but it seems like they only looked at my main page and stopped there.
Fustrated Newbie :(
Check your StickyMail. :)
I got the same problem too..... this happens everytime I submit.... wait a month, nothing, wait 2, weeks write an editor.... wait 2 weeks, nothing.... wait another week, resubmit... wait 2 weeks, write another editor...
I think they ought to let you see your number in that list, to let you know what your situation is.
....DMOZ BIZEX WHERE ARE YOU?
Now, all top level categories have unreviewed numbers with 4 and 5 digits. I have run across submissions in rarely-trafficked pockets which have been there 9, 10, or even 12 months.
The fact that many people still resubmit after two weeks only exacerbates
the problem.
By all means, sign up to be an editor. As long as you are fair-minded, reasonably intelligent and have enough common sense to follow along with the community, you are welcome! :)
...I guess I'm out:) rofl
But I guess it depends on the editor.
Aha! Another example of DMOZ corruption. You should have made yourself wait at least four months!! ;)
That is a very informative page about getting listed in the ODP.
>We've gotten so many questions about submitting around here
VERY true Maybe you should have the ODP as a fourm of the week.
It is true that Dmoz is backlogged, which is why you often see editors recruiting. If only all of the editors we got were altruistic and capable, we'd be in heaven. However, that is not the case. We do indeed get many editors who join simply to self-promote, which takes the form of cooling sites with which they are affiliated, listing mirror sites, deleting keywords from their competition, or even deleting listings entirely. We also get some editors who just don't understand what we're doing. "Bad" editors need to be cleaned up after, no matter what their motives, and that detracts from time other editors could be using to add new listings to the directory.
Obviously, that is not acceptable.
Metas have many jobs, including "hiring" new editors, giving existing editors new categories, and investigating reported abuse. It is, in fact, the "job" of all editors to report abuse, which still isn't enough. Some abuse goes on for many months before it is discovered.
So yes, metas will often delete existing links and change descriptions, and re-list those links that should be in the directory. They also start the process which removes abusive (or just plain bad) editors.
Having said all that, I need to point out that this is not the appropriate forum for airing complaints about ODP. This is a forum about how to get listed in directories.
If you have complaints about editors or metas, those are properly taken up in the internal forum if you are an editor, or by contacting staff@dmoz.org if you are not. There are also numerous forums for ODP detractors which I am sure you can find using almost any search engine, but bringing them here is counterproductive both for your purposes and the purposes of this forum.
Thanks,
the Gnome
Okay, so I tried to be ambitious and went for it..
But my request to be editor was rejected. But at least they were fast and they gave a reason.I.e tthey didn't want to give a new editor like myself such a high level topic.
Fair enough, but I suspect the current topic I applied for isn't really "high level", it's looks that way merely because the editors were trigger happy enough to create new sub-categories, each with only 2 listings..
Just wondering do meta-editors consult editors of the relevant categories when deciding whether to accept new editors? Or is that hidden policy?
Is there anyway I can read more about being a dmoz editor and rules? Besides "the being a editor page"?
When you receive such a message, it usually means that the meta editor who reviewed your application was inclined to accept, but felt that the category being applied for was too large or high in the category tree for a new editor. When there are subcategories, we'd prefer that new editors start there.
>> Fair enough, but I suspect the current topic I applied for isn't really "high level", it's looks that way merely because the editors were trigger happy enough to create new sub-categories, each with only 2 listings.. <<
That's possible. Sometimes subcategories are created for reasons other than a high number of sites, as when they are needed for @linking purposes. I really couldn't answer the specifics of the question.
>> Just wondering do meta-editors consult editors of the relevant categories when deciding whether to accept new editors? Or is that hidden policy? <<
While reviewing new applications, sometimes we do, but usually not. There are simply too many of them.
>> Is there anyway I can read more about being a dmoz editor and rules? Besides "the being a editor page"? <<
Reading and posting to forums such as this one is a good start. There are a lot of people here, many with good information. Don't be discouraged. If you were asked to apply for a deeper category, do that. Once in, with good editing and some honest work, you'll be able to move up soon enough.
i'm not very familiar with ODP policies so i have this question .. if a site was sitting on, say, the 26th rank for quite some time (about 3 mos. +), then suddenly drops about 20 levels down so that it is now somewhere in the 40s, what could the possible reasons for that be? do you penalize for submitting the site again when it is already listed?
hope you could enlighten me on this one .. :)
There have been some recent enhancements to the search algorithm. The new one is supposed to do everything the old one did, but it still does not introduce any ranking. Results are (differently) deterministic and indeterminate. That is, the order is consistently different from the old results, and nobody knows why yet.
Moral: the only semantically meaningful way of using the words "ODP" "search" and "rank" in the same sentence is like this: "ODP is not a search engine, so nobody cares that its search smells like rank roadkill."
As for punishing people for resubmitting sites that were already listed....I wish. But no, there really isn't any way to do it -- and if there were, we'd have the slimier SE Obfuscation professionals resubmitting their competition!
So go ahead and do what you must. But the morals here are better drawn from Aesop's "The Boy Who Cried 'Wolf'" and "The Dog in the Manger."
