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The results will show you a 'cooled" site, the one with the star icon.
Read the guidelines.
Read them again. This is what the editors do.
Then submit to the category with the best fit. Write a clear and concise description. Two sentences.
Title should match you site.
Make the first sentence a description of the site, short, no hype. The second sentence, what's on the site.
Example:
Widgets-R-Us
Offers services and information related to widget technology. Newsletter, mission statement, order form, links and contact information.
Copy and paste it into a spell-checker before you submit.
It won't get you a Pulitzer prize but you're making it easy for the editor that reviews the site.
That helps.
VJL: Thanks. I had a good look around the site but did not come across that bit. Looks like most of the answers I seek are contained there. Thanks again!
In short, do what VJL told you. Read the guidelines. This is especially true if you want to become an editor yourself.
Read the guidelines a few more times in that case... ;)
Your association with a site doesn't have to get into the way of becoming an editor of the category it is listed in, as long as you're honest about it, and are capable of writing fair descriptions of all entries there. Many good editors have started this way (and many others were kicked for self-promotion, after starting from the same position).
I do not have meta privileges, so I don't make these decisions...
However, I believe:
1)If you are knowledgeable about a subject...
2)If you can describe your site, and other sites like it, impartially.
You are editor material.
VJL
Bird: Thanks for tips. That's a lot of good advice I didn't pick up from the Dmoz guidelines.
VJL: I applied to be an editor. I'm just waiting to hear from them now.
Cheers.
Just to be nitpicky, and to furtherly stress what Bird said...
ODP Guidelines say that words in the title should not be repeated in the description.
Should you therefore have a site title like "Blue Elbonian Widgets", the description should not contain these words.
Keep it in mind both as a submitter and as an editor :)
etorre, what if the description will read: Offers widgets for home, agricultural and industrial use... etc. and "Blue Elbonian Widgets" is actually the company name?
The description would read funny without the word widgets, and the title would have to be shortened to Blue Elbonian to eliminate the word, cutting short the company name.
Also, the description could appropriately say (for example) Products for home, agricultural and industrial use... etc. or "Varieties for ..." "Sizes for ..." and so on, depending what fits a widget!
My application to become an editor has been successful! I just logged on for the first time and have 34 sites waiting for editing!
Looks like I've got a mentor from this forum as well!
I will never look at a 'pen' the same again!
:)
VJL
Short of becoming an editor for that category yourelf, making sure your description is properly written and that your site does qualify for the category you're entering it into, I don't know what you can do.
I was going to email the editor, but that's discouraged when you click on their name. There's nothing else to be done then?
