Accepted but for wrong cat

*sigh*, no need to thats a sure sign that you have heard all these comments before and that they have not been resolved is a sign that this is indeed a "closed shop"
I take on board your comments and let me say I'm not trying to abuse anyone or anything like that here.
>The meta who handled your application left the choice to you which of the subcategories you might want. I cannot see why that would put you off so.<
Try and look at it from my point of view, I have read what I needed to read, filled in the form sending tiime to find suitable urls. Then I am asked to do it all again with no real idea if I will be successful. Yet, as I continue to point out, DMOZ needs editors and sites needs editing or do you feel it's acceptable for it to take 3 months to get a site added to DMOZ?
You need a better system, marketing rule No.1 if they don't want what you'er selling sell something they do want. You have people wanting to do the job find a job for them to do.
One last point, if all this is due to QC then it's not working one look at the editing tells you that. Look at these two :-
Footy Programmes - Thousands of football programmes, autographs and tickets for sale. From pre-war to date. Most English clubs available, includes Cup Finals, Internationals, Friendlies and European Cup.
Soccer programmes - Devoted to the hobby of collecting programmes.

Both the same type of site which editor did best ?

I think that it is fairly clear that you applied for a category that was too big, and was too high up the tree; and that an application for a smaller sub-cat would be looked at favourably. This is not an exclusive club. I found a cat that I was interested in, found three sites that could be added there, wrote titles and descriptions for each, and then submitted my application. It was accepted in about _8_hours_ [EIGHT HOURS]. I applied for a non-spammy, non-contentious area of the directory; and I applied for a cat that was right at the very end of the tree.

The reason you are asked to supply another three sites for review if you apply for a different category is that the sites you originally suggested in your original application were for a different category, and so would not be relevant to the new category you should be applying for. The submission of three suitable sites is a test to see whether you can write decent titles and descriptions, and whether you understand the scope of the category... the suggested sites have to be relevant to the category that you are actually applying for. Once you become an editor, you still have to provide three new sites when applying for new categories from within the ODP; so the three sites rule isn't just for new editors.

I tend to agree with driftwood: DMOZ feels like a secret society that requires a password or knowing someone "on the inside" before admission is granted.

Many refer to Phil's thread, but the only reason he was accepted was that one of the thread participants was an editor/meta who happened to come across his second application and approved him immediately because of the "prior knowledge".


In my humble opinion, DMOZ will never be able to clear out the site submission queue if Editor applications take "up to 2 months". The unprofessionalism of "rejection without notification" simply compounds the problem. Anyone who is offering to volunteer their services should be treated with a little more respect and good, old-fashioned politeness, IMO.

Editor approvals should be top priority. Approving one editor increases "company output" for the life of that editor. Most other DMOZ tasks (approving sites, dealing with abuse, etc), although completely necessary, do little to increase long-term productivity of the DMOZ entity.

I'll post some more on this in a new thread.

Anyone who is offering to volunteer their services ...

The problem is that the large majority of applicant's aren't exactly volunteering. They are applying to further their own interests which make the applicant review process necessary.

As I was wrong with my assumption in the subject, at the time I didn't know this was a standard reply, and we have move on to the general subject of how Dmoz deals with submissions I think this thread can be closed. Anyone getting this far can partisipate in another thread.

"This category needs an editor" isn't just saying we need someone new from the outside to apply. It also is a message to existing editors that nobody is specifically listed in that category.