Your experience with DMOZ

**San Diego Web** · 06-23-2009, 09:04 PM

Many times the categories are edited by competitors making it absolutely impossible to get included/listed

**ranter** · 06-25-2009, 01:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Anonymously

It can help to become an editor, but if the meta editor reviewing your application gets the impression that you are ONLY interested in listing your own site you will not be accepted.

Are you kidding me?
Of courser the only reason some one is going to sign up for slave position is to add their sites to Dmoz index
Why else would anyone do such a idiotic thing and donate precious seconds of their lives instead of using them in more productive way?

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Originally Posted by Anonymously

One of those instructions which badams seems to have failed to read or follow is when submitting a site do it only once. Submitting several times only overwrites the earlier offering, and for those who look through the suggestions pool in order of submissions, means it goes to the bottom of the list they will look at. Too many submissions can get a site branded as spamming the directory and barred.

And how smart is that?
I call it stupid because it opens doors for abuse by competing parties.

Lets say I want to make sure my competition never gets listed in DMOZ and all I have to do is to visit DMOZ once per month and submit my competitors sites and soon enough they will be banned, curtsey of DMOZ for good.

Don’t you think that this kind of doing business is counterproductive?

BTW, you still have to answer my question
http://www.v7n.com/forums/1126062-post115.html

**Anonymously** · 06-25-2009, 10:08 PM

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Originally Posted by San Diego Web

Many times the categories are edited by competitors making it absolutely impossible to get included/listed

If you have any belief that an editor is including their own sites to the detriment of their competitors, PLEASE report it there is a button on every page to do so.

Whilst I do not conduct investigations I know that any report is thoroughly investigated and on the very few occasions that we have found editors abusing their position they have been booted for ever.

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Lets say I want to make sure my competition never gets listed in DMOZ and all I have to do is to visit DMOZ once per month and submit my competitors sites and soon enough they will be banned, curtsey of DMOZ for good.

I am sure that this issue gives you real concern Ranter, so rest assured that we do undertake several checks, editing is not just about listing sites.

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Are you kidding me?
Of courser the only reason some one is going to sign up for slave position is to add their sites to Dmoz index
Why else would anyone do such a idiotic thing and donate precious seconds of their lives instead of using them in more productive way?

I don't have a site and I have done over 20,000 edits in DMOZ.

Some people like collecting stamps, some like collecting shells but some like collecting and collating web sites. It's called having a hobby, that's just what editors at DMOZ are doing, pursuing their hobby and for all the editors I know, and we do have editor meet ups, that's how they like to spend their time. Perhaps that's hard for you to believe, Ranter, but all this talk of preventing or even removing competitor sites is nonesense to all the editors I work with and know. Apart from the fact that it is highly likely we will discover them. New editors are watched carefully and why on earth would I jeapodise my being an editor when I have poured hundreds of hours into something that I have and continue to love doing? A position a senior editor faces if they suddenly start doing stupid things to competitor sites.

**ranter** · 02:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Anonymously

I am sure that this issue gives you real concern Ranter, so rest assured that we do undertake several checks, editing is not just about listing sites.

Please stop being ridicules. You won’t be physically able to over see the thousands of editors no matter what you do and even if you are going to have 48 hours day. But then again there is an issue with: who is checking checkers.

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Originally Posted by Anonymously

Some people like collecting stamps, some like collecting shells but some like collecting and collating web sites. It's called having a hobby, that's just what editors at DMOZ are doing, pursuing their hobby and for all the editors I know, and we do have editor meet ups, that's how they like to spend their time.

Surely you do realize that having collection means to have something tangible. I have friend who’s traveling a lot and his hobby is collecting air from places he has been visiting. His collection has over thousand of jars and bottles filled with air and even thou I laughing at his hobby, never the less he has collection of something tangible but you my friend in the end of the day have nothing on your hobby shelf which makes what you’re doing is a job which you are doing for free.

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Perhaps that's hard for you to believe, Ranter, but all this talk of preventing or even removing competitor sites is nonesense to all the editors I work with and know. Apart from the fact that it is highly likely we will discover them.

Maybe elite group of your colleges but there is another one that can kill competition by simply applying description like Company Information or Official site or use their 1 added site per every 4 month obligation and to keep the rest of sites away till next year or next 3 years. What about them? Are you in control of what they are doing and how?

**AdBirds Design** · 06-26-2009, 03:39 PM

Have been waiting 2 months for DMOZ. Yahoo! has did not take that long.

**Anonymously** · 06-26-2009, 07:33 PM

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Originally Posted by AdBirds Design

Have been waiting 2 months for DMOZ. Yahoo! has did not take that long.

Can I ask if you paid Yahoo.

Can I also draw your attention to the post of mine which says we are NOT a listing service. You offered a site for review and possible inclusion. Thank you but it may take from a few days to a few years for that review to take place. Editors attempt to build categories and use whatever resources they like for that, sometimes it will be a site from the suggestions pool but it might just as much be a site from another site or a newspaper or.....

You have offered your site now forget it and promote your site somewhere else, there is nothing more you can do with DMOZ, especially not re-submitting.

Ranter

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Please stop being ridicules. You won’t be physically able to over see the thousands of editors no matter what you do and even if you are going to have 48 hours day. But then again there is an issue with: who is checking checkers.

Another attempt to scramble a post of mine. Please read the contexts. I was commenting on your concern that someone could get a competitors site banned by submitting many times and I said that we conducted many checks when sites had multiple submissions, so we do weed out if anyone tried this stunt. But we do not have thousands of editors actually working, the figures quoted on the front page mean all the editors who have contributed to the directory over the years.

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Surely you do realize that having collection means to have something tangible. I have friend who’s traveling a lot and his hobby is collecting air from places he has been visiting. His collection has over thousand of jars and bottles filled with air and even thou I laughing at his hobby, never the less he has collection of something tangible but you my friend in the end of the day have nothing on your hobby shelf which makes what you’re doing is a job which you are doing for free.

Is that why we have a collection of over 5 million sites? I am proud of my contribution, especially the categories that I have built up exclusively and represent only my work.

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Maybe elite group of your colleges but there is another one that can kill competition by simply applying description like Company Information or Official site or use their 1 added site per every 4 month obligation and to keep the rest of sites away till next year or next 3 years. What about them? Are you in control of what they are doing and how?

Whilst I said above that I have built categories by myslef, that situatiuon never lasts long, soon someone comes along and finds an issue with what I have done, or wants to add or remove a site. You see there is NO category that does not have an editor and NO category that has only one editor. We do have over 200 editors who can edit anywhere in the directory, every editor can edit in any category on the tree below them. So if we had an editor preventing competition by not adding them, that can suddenly change when an editor from further up the tree or one of the editors who can edit anywhere pops in and does some listing. Yers a bad editor could remove them, but then you are drawing attention to yourself with no defence. We are not fool proof, but I reckon we catch them in the end. Then kaput, editing over and their site banned for ever.

**ranter** · 01:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Anonymously

Another attempt to scramble a post of mine.

Good point

I must say that if you ever decide to apply for position in Propaganda Department of Chinese Communist Party, you won't have any problems to get that job. It just amazing how hard you are trying to promote ceased to exist reputation of group of people who are living in the past and don't understand the changes in Directory and Search Engine Industry in a past 5 years.

I will refer you to example you fail to justify or even simply explain no matter how hard I tried to have your justification and yet you are talking about quality of your categories and editorial integrity as if you have even some idea what is that suppose to be.
http://www.v7n.com/forums/1124718-post110.html
Why don't you tell us to start how come you are listing spam in your categories and then we may give you a benefit of the doubt and listen to what you have to say.

I am not scrambling your posts, you do it on your own. I'm only reminding you about your, Mao would be proud of you, PROPAGANDA and making sure others understand what you are trying to hide in between the lines.

**Anonymously** · 06-28-2009, 07:04 PM

There is a lovely line in one of the Dirty Harry Movies it says
"Opinions are like *** holes, everyone's got one"

And you are entitled to yours.

**ranter** · 06-29-2009, 04:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Anonymously

There is a lovely line in one of the Dirty Harry Movies it says
"Opinions are like *** holes, everyone's got one"

And you are entitled to yours.

I'm providing undeniable fact and all you have to do is to read your own posts again to see holes in your own crying for attention useless life

**LadynRed** · 06-29-2009, 04:10 PM

Guys.. that's enough. If you have a personal argument, take it somewhere else, it's not going to continue here! Both of you, mind you manners and our rules!

**ju4nm4** · 09-29-2009, 06:19 PM

i still waiting to be approbe

more than 8 month

**pumpfootwear** · 10-08-2009, 05:30 AM

i have seen many people saying that .... it take years to get listed on dmoz , and about my experience i tried to add one of my website but that time i was not having any professional experience with website designing so it was not upto the mark ... so it was rejected that time.