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Everyone up to here, including ghormann, is done <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" alt="" />

Still in the queue waiting review <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" alt="" />

All done yagla <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" alt="" />

all requests completed <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" alt="" />

Feedback is certainly helpful, but I don't think this is the place to dispense it. The mandate of this forum as stated in the Guidelines is pretty clear. "This forum is here to provide an additional, unofficial channel of communications between the general public and the editing community, where advice on site submissions and placement, becoming an editor and other information about the directory can be dispensed."

I have to agree with apeuro here. I'm not sure what the benefit is to the submitters to tell them that they have invalid code. Aren't there other forums out there where people can discuss html code validation. It's a nice thing to give someone a heads-up, but is that really part of the mandate of this forum? I think that repeatedly telling submitters that their code is invalid only perpetuates a myth that we don't list sites if they don't validate.

I think I got everyone that was outstanding <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" alt="" />

ok - that everyone taken care of MorseRj fantasyf1 gregindy grtno7 quikblue All magically editors now <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" alt="" />

And don't assume that replies are not being sent to people just because there is a lot of discussion about it on this forum. I've replied to two submitter's email requests just today. They were kind, thoughtful, simple questions so I had no problem replying to these people. You just don't hear about the ones we do reply to because the people who like to complain a lot are a bit louder <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" alt="" />

Today is your lucky day <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" alt="" /> I edit the Society:GLB:Travel categories and I'm always looking for new listings that qualify for those categories. The B&B is now listed in Society:GLB:Travel:Lodging:Canada and updated in the Vancouver GLB category . The changes and addition may take a while to update to the public page. Thanks for the new listing. don

I don't see any applications in the queue for a user name of bannah (assuming that you used the same userid as on this forum), and I don't see any apps for any sci fi book categories. Best to resubmit. If your application was for http://dmoz.org/Arts/Literature/Genres/Science_Fiction/, then it probably would have been rejected, as that would be too big of a category for a new editor. Make sure you read and understand http://dmoz.org/help/become.html before submitting a new application.

We also have a totally internal message board which does a good job of letting editors get to know one another. There is no lack of chit-chat on those forums <img src="/images/icons/grin.gif" alt="" />

Re: Humble Suggestions: Improving DMOZ productivity & gr Your suggestions have merit, but they're not really new <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" alt="" /> These ideas get batted around often. It's just sometimes hard to implement change when you've got so many other things going on at the same time. It may appear that nothing is happening, but we do make changes. It's just a little slower than it would be in a non-volunteer organization. Personally I have one person who I mentor on a regular basis, I have my eye one 7 others at the moment who are new editors that I approved, I still have to edit the categories that I volunteered for, one of which is undergoing a major reorganization. I spend time every day looking over new editor application, and new category applications for current editors. Each new app can take anywhere from 15 minutes to an hour or two to investigate. And I also participate in the internal forums for the parts of the directory where I edit, and the meta and editall forums to discuss new editors, bad editors, spammers, abusers, and projects that we may be working on to improve the directory. All together it's pretty much a full-time job <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" alt="" /> As much as I would love to approve more new editor applications it's just one of the many things that I need to accomplish in a short period of time. And I think this prett much goes for all of the metas who are responsible for reviewing applications. It's just a bit of a vicious circle. No time to approve new apps, to find editors to help with the work, to give you more time to approve more apps <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" alt="" />

Your application is in the queue. Hard to say how long it will be before someone reviews it though.

Not sure if it's just me, but pages are taking forever to load.

Well the good news is that there are now only 700 sites waiting for review in that category, and yours is still there. It's up to individual editors to decide if they wish to respond to a submitter. With that amount of email that some editors get on high traffic categories, it's next to impossible for them to reply to status inquiries. Patience my friend /images/icons/smile.gif

Re: Hoping To List My Site. Your site was actually moved to the more specific category of http://dmoz.org/Business/Business_Services/AudioVisual/Recordings/Duplication/ It is still in the queue, and I would give it a couple of months before expecting to see it listed. There are quite a few sites waiting in the AudioVisual categories and only a few editors.

Your site is still in the queue. The most recent edits to that category were actually on Saturday, July 20, 2002 as you can see at the bottom of the category page. Sites that have died or moved are not always discovered and fixed as quickly as sites are added as we tend to concentrate on adding sites first before we go back and check through the category for dead links. We also have an automated bot that runs every couple of months that notifies us of dead URLs and at that point they get flagged for investigation by editors. Many of us wait until we see the red flags.

just_browsing that link didn't work for me - brought back an empty page. http://www.google.com/search?q=Teaching+should+be+such+that+what+is+offered+is+perceived+as+a+valuable+gift+and+not+as+a+hard+duty

Good post abdi. This mirrors my experience as well. I remember that I was approved by the time I got up the next morning. It pays to spend the time up front doing the research prior to submitting your application. Obviously it shows the Meta working on the apps that you are serious about doing the job. Pretty much the same as applying to any type of job.

The site was actually listed in http://dmoz.org/Shopping/Health/Pharmacy/Online_Pharmacies/Regional on Jul 22

Seems strange. We've had a steady stream of new editors in July. Someone just posted about this in the internal forum so hopefully it can be resolved for you. One thing I would suggest which seems to solve all browser related issues is to totally clear out your browser's cache before you try again. Could that error page just be getting stuck in the cache? That seems pretty farfetched even to me, but you never know /images/icons/smile.gif

Search results take longer to be updated. Notice the date at the bottom of the Search Results. This was the last time the search database was indexed. Ususally once, sometimes twice, a week.

Also many times a site will have no discernable title other than their domain name. Or they will add a title after the site has been initially reviewed, and the change in title will not be noticed until an editor does a follow-up review of the category. If you have specific cases that you think are abuse, you can report these through the Abuse/Spam Report Form or look in the Abuse Reporting forum here for other ways to report abuse.

Site was listed in New_Orleans/Business_and_Economy/Travel_Services/Tour_Operators on Jul 01, 2002.