Are individual FAQ Farm FAQs appropriate?

cwhitten

Member
Joined
Mar 26, 2005
Messages
4
Hi,

I'm the Webmaster of FAQ Farm. It's a "question & answer co-op" where users ask and answer each other's questions. These Q&A's evolve into FAQs that become permanent Internet resources. The site has been up for a few years so we now have about 1,000 FAQs and more than 65,000 questions in the database. (Not all of the questions have been answered, since it's all-volunteer.)

I'd like to think that hundreds of the individual FAQs belong on DMOZ, at least the good ones that have grown to the point that they are really valuable resources on their topics and not just question and answer forums.

About a half dozen FAQs are in DMOZ. For example, volunteers or ODP editors have added sites such as http://www.faqfarm.com/Q/FAQ/1880 in http://dmoz.org/Health/Mental_Health/Psychological_Abuse/

Over the past year or two I've tried to submit a number of individual FAQs but most of them must be getting rejected.

For example, on 2/4/05 I submitted http://www.faqfarm.com/Q/FAQ/620 to http://dmoz.org/Recreation/Autos/Makes_and_Models/Chevrolet/Malibu/

I submitted a bunch of other car FAQs a few weeks ago.

I'd like advice. Since I want FAQ Farm to keep growing, I want FAQ Farm FAQs in DMOZ. But I don't want to keep submitting sites if I'm wasting editors' time.

Should I keep submitting individual FAQs? Is there a certain level that FAQ Farm FAQs should reach before I submit them (e.g. a certain number of good, well-answered questions)? Should I be careful not to submit them to sections that already have FAQs or question and answer forums? Any input would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Chris
 

oneeye

Member
Joined
Aug 2, 2002
Messages
3,512
You may submit a site once and once only. Editors will decide if deeplinking of individual pages within that site is appropriate but you may not suggest them. Submitting individual pages/topics will almost certainly fall foul of submission guidelines for which draconian penalties might be applied. So the answer is no, don't submit individual FAQs.

As you have noted, some pages have been picked up and listed individually by editors - that is OK as long as they remain good resources. http://www.faqfarm.com itself does not appear to be listed - has it been suggested anywhere?
 

cwhitten

Member
Joined
Mar 26, 2005
Messages
4
Hi oneeye,

Thanks for letting me know. That's a big point I missed.

I've just submitted the main FAQ Farm home page (something I should have done a long time ago!), and I'll leave it at that.

Thanks again,

Chris
 
This site has been archived and is no longer accepting new content.
Top