Quality Control Feedback
You can report quality control issues and generic abuse reports with no mention of specific URLs, editors or categories here.
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Affiliate site breaks all the rules and gets in!
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The following website: http://www.queerposters.com is listed in the google directory under: http://directory.google.com/Top/Shopping/Niche/Gay,_Lesbian,_and_Bisexual/ Now I know the google directory results come from dmoz or am I mistaken? This site is purely an affiliate site - has hidden black text and links at the bottom of the pages and has pages and pages of nothing - yet it has a huge pagerank and is in the directory - how on earth did this site get where it is
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these sites need removing from dmoz in my opinion, either dead links or no longer trading category http://www.dmoz.org/Shopping/Clothing/Undergarments/Lingerie/ sites http://www.adamsrib.net/ http://www.bellalingerie.com/ http://store.yahoo.com/bodyhints/ http://www.theworldoflingerie.com/ category http://www.dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/Business_and_Economy/Shopping/Clothing/Lingerie/ sites: http://www.brasbras.com/ http://http://www.joycebrookslingerie.co.uk/ http://www.classy-lingerie.co.uk/ http://www.laetitiaallen.co.uk/ http://midnightstyle.com/ http://www.sulis.co.uk category: http://www.dmoz.org/Shopping/Clothing/Undergarments/Li…
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Credibility
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Hello everyone, I have been wondering how to establish the credibility of a website/domain? As a SysAdmin, I've seen what a good designer can do with minimal data from a client... My walk-though ODP shows, listing of higher credibility websites - ones with an equally strong offline presence, as online. Looking for suggestions how to evaluate a presentation before accepting the information provided or purchasing a product / service....
Last reply by hutcheson
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# Twist Image Multimarketing Studio - Marketing and communications, brand strategy, technology, graphic and web site design. Includes portfolio of clients. -- http://www.twistimage.com/ Business: Business Services: Design: Graphic Design: Designers: Multi-Discipline: North America: Canada: Quebec (1) # Twist Image Multimarketing Studio - Marketing and communications, brand strategy, technology, graphic and web site design. Includes portfolio of clients. -- http://www.twistimage.com/ Regional: North America: Canada: Quebec: Localities: M: Montreal: Business and Economy: Advertising and Marketing (1)
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Editor adds his own site but what about sites like mine and other sites that added their links before him? I was there as dmoz started in the late 90s and over time things have degraded. It's hard to be an editor...you have your own life work and then you need to contribute some of your time to add/decline new sites to a category. I understand it's hard...that's why some editors ignore a category for years. In my opinion, if an editor does not do work for 6 months they should be dropped. That's not my issue though...my issue is when a competitor signs up for a category and adds his own site ahead of others. I added my site with no promotional language, keyword stu…
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Hello I wonder if anyone can help direct me? If a site description in a category shows something different to the entry in the index (i.e. when you search on the domain name the index holds a different description and category to the directory listing), how is this fixed? If a defamatory entry is removed from a category but remains in the index (when a more accurate category listing exists), how is this fixed? I understand that the forum charter says: "It's in plain sight before you enter this forum: Generic discussion on types of abuse with no mention of specific URLs, editors, or categories. Specific cases will not be handled here. Please report them to …
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DMOZ has an incorrect URL associated with our Corporate Name: Candy Crate, Inc. (incorrect URL says <url removed>) The correct URL should be <url removed> Thanks
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Affiliate links inform
by Guest eerasa-
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The following links are affiliate links of http://www.hotelclub.net and http://www.stayxs.com http://china.hotels-reservations.org http://dmoz.org/Regional/Asia/China/Travel_and_Tourism/Lodging/ http://new-zealand.hotels-reservations.org http://dmoz.org/Regional/Oceania/New_Zealand/Travel_and_Tourism/Accommodation/ http://portugal.hotels-reservations.org http://dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/Portugal/Travel_and_Tourism/Lodging/Hotels/ http://philippines.hotels-reservations.org http://dmoz.org/Regional/Asia/Philippines/Travel_and_Tourism/Lodging/Hotels/ http://cambodia.hotels-reservations.org http://dmoz.org/Regional/Asia/Cambodia/Travel_and_Tourism/Lodg…
Last reply by bldarter
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Hi there... For the last 6 months I have attempted to get a site title correction! But, nobody is home in the editor category. Can someone look into this? http://www.dmoz.org/Shopping/Antiques_and_Collectibles/Clothing/ see the site misnamed: <title removed> Thanks!
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Two URLs, Very similar content. Acceptable by ODP?
by Guest emhcaer-
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If a company has two different sites with almost identical content, would ODP accept both URLs? I noticed that both www.rival.on.ca and www.rivallift.com have been accept in ODP and both have been developed by the same company and are really selling the same stuff. Actually they own other domains such as http://www.rivaltransfersystems.com and http://www.rivalinventory.com/
Last reply by pvgool,
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Dear Editors, I would like to know why some reports are looked at while others receive no reply or attention. In addition, a friend of mine referred me to this forum and was told to take a look at several listings in the gambling category. I discovered the same things he discovered, so I would also like to know why your metas dont go ahead and do a proper cleanup. Sites in the gambling category change at a very rapid pace, so certain links have changed as well, in addition to certain sites having numerous deeplinks that don't quite fit the model of being exceptions to the rule because of special, unique content. This indicates that either the editors are 1) not awar…
Last reply by jtaylorj,
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http://dmoz.org/Home/Consumer_Information/Electronics/Televisions/ deep links here, are these sites that good they get mulitple links in various categories? they are already in the product review category, isnt this enough?
Last reply by hutcheson,
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I was going to report something under Society: Religion and Spirituality: Esoteric and Occult: Chats and Forums and on the report page, this comes up --> There is a site under chats & forums that seems to be a spring board for selling furniture, rather then something Esoteric_and_Occult. This is not a yahoo issue, it's a dmoz issue...correct? I've no clue if it' breaks the rules of YAHOO (I can't stand their groups system set up, and find it mind boggling why there are so many submissions for them).
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I reported a clear-cut case of abuse where the meta willfully and maliciously hurt the business interests of a company without justification. The meta manufactured wrongful and hateful accusations to aid her business interests with editors in the categories. Just a cursory view substantiates the situation. Quite clearly she was protecting editors in the categories who already had multiple domains and pages throughout DMOZ. After doing a thorough investigation to document the matter I submitted it to the public abuse system and received a tracking ID. Ten minutes later I decided to enter the tracking ID into the system. The response was matter resolved and we can’t giv…
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Hi, I was wondering if someone could shed some light on my situation. My site has been list on Dmoz for over a couple of years and i have just notice that our listing has been removed? I would like to understand why this would happen? As the purpose of the site has not change only that we have made it more user friendly with better navigation and features. <URL deleted> It worries me to read in the quality control forum that sites are being remove in mass without being validated is this true? Regards, Matthew (very concerned)
Last reply by pvgool,
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not sure where to report this, but i figured it could fit abuse cause editor probably misrepresented him/herself i was just going through category Top: World: Srpski and visited pages such as http://dmoz.org/cgi-bin/add.cgi?where=World/Srpski/Kompjuteri http://dmoz.org/cgi-bin/apply.cgi?where=World/Srpski/Kompjuteri and text on those pages is definitively not in serbian, but croatian, which is a different dialect, and not even people of serbian heritage from croatia speak like that. I would consider this a HUGE blunder, IF the goal of this section is to cater to serbian visitors. And to top it off, those pages are FULL of spelling errors (in either dialect …
Last reply by informator,
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I had one site listed at: Regional: Europe: United Kingdom: England: London: Business and Economy <url removed> # Russell Lodge on the day 2006/08/13 - 16:18:31 London Hour one ODP editor visited the site and now is gone. Any feedback on this situation please. Cheers
Last reply by nea,
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Hello. this website gamesbox.com is listed in http://www.dmoz.org/Business/Aerospace_and_Defense/Defense/Military_Equipment_and_Parts and http://www.dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/Business_and_Economy/Legal_Services/Lawyers_and_Law_Firms/Intellectual_Property but this website is a games flahs.... Is posible delete gamesbox.com to two categories listed ??
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Well, I'm back...my forums have gotten realy popular and I kind of slide away from here...anyways... Remember when I said I found a lot of sites that shoulden't be in the directory...well...I diden't find all of them, but I did happen to come accross some (sorry, coulden't find the abuse submission for catagorys so I am just posting here...sorry) NES Price Guide - Price guide for NES 8 bit systems. on http://www.dmoz.org/Games/Video_Games/Console_Platforms/Nintendo/NES/ --linsk to some porn site.. The NES Forums - Contains forums. on http://www.dmoz.org/Games/Video_Games/Console_Platforms/Nintendo/NES/ --links to some site completely unrelated to the specified …
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Hello, No. 1 = listed at http://dmoz.org/Sports/Soccer/UEFA/England/Stadiums/ Awayguide.Net - A guide to Premiership and Nationwide League grounds for away fans. http://www.awayguide.net/ appears to have become something other than a readily accessible guide to anything. No. 2 = listed at http://dmoz.org/Sports/Soccer/Players/England/ James, David - Includes a history of his career, profile and images. The listed URL http://digilander.libero.it/1dj/ seems to be on instant divert to http://digilander.libero.it/_ppricerca/index.html which is nothing to do with David James (a well known English soccer player) No. 3 = listed at http://dmoz.org/Sport…
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Ideal Real Estate - Provides services to buyers and sellers, also services in construction and design. Includes listings with photographs and prices. -- http://www.idealhouses.net/ Regional: Middle East: Turkey: Provinces: Aydin: Districts: Kusadasi: Business and Economy: S&R - Adviseur voor een woning langs de gehele West- en Zuidwest kust van Turkije. -- http://www.secondhouse.net World: Nederlands: Regionaal: Midden-Oosten: Turkije: Bedrijven en Economie: Vastgoed Real Estate Advisers - Kurze Beschreibung der Immobilien an der türkischen Süd- und Westküste sowie der Boote im Angebot. -- http://www.secondhouse.net/deutsch/info.htm World: Deutsch: …
Last reply by hutcheson,
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I've been writing/rewritig my first website for 3 months and finally put it up last Monday, tweaked it on Tuesday, submitted it to DMOZ on Wednesday and was listed by Friday! Ok so perhaps I was lucky enough to submit it at the right time (though I think the editor for the West Sussex/Bognor Regis category is quite active) but the speed means that the editor thought it was good enough to review immediately - what a compliment! I am still on a high. You have made me very happy John
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2 identical web-sites in one Directory
by Guest goo3-
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Good Day. From 21 sites presented in this section http://dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/Ukraine/Arts_and_Entertainment/, 2 web-sites with different names of domains have absolutely identical maintenance, that is, on 2 different domain names there is the same information, from the same company. {:http://meet-ukraine.com/:} {:http://artmam.com/:} From the same company in this category presented ADULT site: {:http://east-erotic-portal.com:} Trying to find in thematic section of Dmoz a site that is interesting to us - for several times we get on the same sites which are listed above... As far as I know, it contradicts rules of Dmoz. It would be desirable, that thi…
Last reply by nea,
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Please let me know if this would be, else where, an appropriate place to discuss an SEO company who's falsly advertising the ability to "get around" DMOZ and misleading prospective clients. I emailed them based on their claims, and to put it midly, they stepped all over it. Unethical practices by such scam artists takes away from the hard work of DMOZ and sites legitimately listed there IMO. Thanks in advance for your time! w®m
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I had submitted an update to our description last week after noticing Google was using the inaccurate DMOZ description for our company. Today I noticed there was no editor listed for the category we're in so I attempted to contact the editor one level above - his contact page returned an error message. I went another level above that editor and sent a note asking if he could help. Two hours later I notice our site has been removed from DMOZ. This jogged my memory, I remember now the diatribe I received in an email from this same editor when I contacted him back in 2006 because our site had been submitted eight months earlier and was never listed. It was a nice li…
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