Ambiguous site

Hi,

Same old sob story, been trying to get my site listed for nearly 5 years now. I wonder if it has to do with the nature of my site which makes it very difficult to find the "best" category. Without giving too much away my site does conjugation, translation and testing of verbs in two different languages. There is a version of the site in each language as well. There simply doesn't exist a single category for this site, it could really sit comfortably in quite a few. I've tried it in categories for verb conjugation, I've tried it in language categories but to no avail.

Do you think it is likely that the nature of the site is affecting its listing or could I be missing something else? If that could be affecting it is there anything I could do to avoid such problems?

Regards,

Alan.

_Your_ difficulty finding the best site will not be a problem--the editors find categories for sites all the time.

The editors might have problems finding the right category. If that's the problem, you can't help--you've already made your best guess. So you've done what you can. (And there'd be no point in an editor telling you this was the case--what more could you do than you've done?)

So, why would you ask a question like that?

We frequently get questions like this. Maybe if we knew what people were thinking we might know how to help with the real issue. Or dismiss it, whichever's appropriate.

So I guess you're telling me that there isn't much more that I can do. I appreciate that confirmation.

I'm not sure why you felt that the comment about reading user's minds was necessary though. I appreciate that you get a lot of this type of question but you should appreciate what it feels like to be a well-intentioned webmaster on the wrong side of the fortress DMOZ wall. It's not fun.

you should appreciate what it feels like to be a well-intentioned webmaster on the wrong side of the fortress DMOZ wall. It's not fun.

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If that is your mistaken view of DMOZ, then no, it can't be fun at all.

However, there are hundreds of thousands of equally "well-intentioned webmasters" whose sites have been listed in the directory without any effort at all on their part, because volunteer editors add hundreds of sites every day, and many of those will not have been suggested by their owners.

So all those webmasters, and all the editors, and all our users see DMOZ for what it is: the largest human-edited collection of sites on the internet. Not a "fortress" at all.

I assure you that the use of the term "fortress" was intended to express my impression of my current situation, not my opinion of the DMOZ project. I'll use an emoticon when being cheeky next time

Cheers