Here's my two cents: It seems that everyone has to kiss up to ODP. For fear of retaliation against their sites, people seem to hold back their true opinions. Sure, rules are as necessary as food and water; however, editors shouldn't act like it is such a privilidge to get a site reviewed. What corporation ever waited a week to see if their changes would work? This is a directory, and it's been broken for over 2 months. Hey, I'll donate $50 right now. I'm sure that there are plenty of others. It seems that ODP lacks action and objectivity. How long must a world of people wait to get this thing fixed? I wonder what kind of retaliatory action will be taken against me for this? Questions and answers, but no solutions. Thanks for listening to me.
donaldb
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You have a right to your opinion, but it's kind of wasted in this forum. One of the Guidelines of this forum actually does state "Discussion of the ways in which ODP runs itself" will not be discussed.
I don't think that there is anyone, including our very talented systems person, who wouldn't like to see the system working at peak efficiency. But as has been stated before, it's being worked on, and it takes time. If you have a problem with how long it is taking then you may want to take your concerns to the administrators of the directory to see if you can convince them to put some more money in the budget next year for increased tech support <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" alt="" />
But in reference to the problem at hand, it's really not a problem for us. Sure we would like to have an updated search index, but the Open Directory Project is not a search engine, it's a directory. And what downstream users do with the data we provide is their business, not ours. Our job as volunteers is to add listings to this directory, and I think we're doing a pretty good job of that. If people are unhappy because they are not seeing their listings showing up in downstream search engines, it's really not our concern.
I can understand your frustration, but these tech issues take time to solve. They truely are close to being resolved, but it's still being worked on. Everyone has to be patient <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" alt="" />
I don't think that there is anyone, including our very talented systems person, who wouldn't like to see the system working at peak efficiency. But as has been stated before, it's being worked on, and it takes time. If you have a problem with how long it is taking then you may want to take your concerns to the administrators of the directory to see if you can convince them to put some more money in the budget next year for increased tech support <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" alt="" />
But in reference to the problem at hand, it's really not a problem for us. Sure we would like to have an updated search index, but the Open Directory Project is not a search engine, it's a directory. And what downstream users do with the data we provide is their business, not ours. Our job as volunteers is to add listings to this directory, and I think we're doing a pretty good job of that. If people are unhappy because they are not seeing their listings showing up in downstream search engines, it's really not our concern.
I can understand your frustration, but these tech issues take time to solve. They truely are close to being resolved, but it's still being worked on. Everyone has to be patient <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" alt="" />