can someone please help me on the status?

jasontrend · May 7, 2009

Hello,

Can someone please give me some information as about the status of the following website? [URL deleted]

I made a serious mistake by not reading the submission guideline carefully back in Jan. I submitted the site multiple times into a different category while i meant to change the category of the site... Our site has been delisted from DMOZ ever since.

I am very sorry for all the extra work caused by my careless and thoughtless mistake. Can someone please let me know how long will the penalty be? And if it is possible for some editor please put our software back to the following category?

# Computers: Software: Accounting: Time Tracking: Web Based

Thank you very much for any feedback and information in advance!

Jason

jimnoble · May 7, 2009

We don't provide status reports here.

Please refer to my email to you at the end of January. It contained a full analysis of your website's situation and also advised you:

There is no need to re-suggest your website and doing so could be counter-productive.

I'm sorry to see that you decided to ignore me

.

jasontrend · May 7, 2009

I did not resubmit the domain again

Hello, Jim,

Thanks for the reply and also, thanks for Jan. email which explains to me why the site is removed from DMOZ.

No, i didn't ignore your previous email, and I have not resubmit the site ever since. I just want to know if someone can possible throw me some time frame as of when the site can be relisted.

Knowing this is really a careless mistake on my side, and the website's function and company's service has not changed at all. I was hoping it won't take too much effort to just review it again and put it back up... Thank you!

Jason

jimnoble · May 7, 2009

I have not resubmit the site ever since

Then perhaps you should better inform your colleagues.

I just want to know if someone can possible throw me some time frame as of when the site can be relisted.

No they can't. Some volunteer will process your listing suggestion in time but we can't predict who or when that might be. Elapsed times can range from a few days to a few years. There is no need to re-suggest your website and doing so could be counter-productive.

Wasn't that in my January email?

hutcheson · May 7, 2009

jason, there's no way to badger an editor into reviewing your website first. There IS a way for an editor to tell the rest of the editors, "This webmaster is badgering us--do something to cut off communications so we can get on with our work in PEACE."

So don't think of what happened as a penalty. (It's not: you have the same health, property, and privileges as you had before. You lost nothing.) All that happened is ... a badger-trap sprung. As anyone can see, it WAS needed.

It is possible to rescuscitate dead badgers, although the badger (being dead) isn't involved at all in the process.

hobart · May 9, 2009

jimnoble said:
Then perhaps you should better inform your colleagues.

No they can't. Some volunteer will process your listing suggestion in time but we can't predict who or when that might be. Elapsed times can range from a few days to a few years. There is no need to re-suggest your website and doing so could be counter-productive.

Wasn't that in my January email?

What happen with sites submitted several times?

pvgool · May 10, 2009

Petre said:
What happen with sites submitted several times?

If you would have bothered to use search you would have found this same questions asked and answered many time.
To repeat.
- if a site is suggested to the same category it will just overwrite the previous suggestion (possible result delay in time between first suggestion and review)
- if a site is suggested to more than one category you are spamming the directory, and (as written in the guidelines) this may result in a ban of you and all of your sites

hutcheson · May 11, 2009

What happen with sites submitted several times?

The Social Contract only allows a site to be suggested once, and only promises a site one review.

Anything beyond that is "timewasting abuse of communication channels, to be resolved by closing the communication channels."

Now, closing the communication channels is a bit of work itself, and there are better things to do than close them down for two or three suggestions. But after that point no harm can possibly be done to anyone -- the site has gotten all the attention it needs, and there isn't anything more to be said about it anyway.

hobart · Jun 19, 2009

If I have a site written in Romanian.
May I suggest it but not in "Top: World: Română" section if I fill in the subscription form in English ?

jimnoble · Jun 19, 2009

We organise the directory by language. If your website only has significant content in Romanian, it can only be listed within World/Română.

hobart · Jun 22, 2009

How to find who is an editor for a certain category, in the Romanian language ?

hutcheson · Jun 22, 2009

The way you find the right editor is to suggest your site to the right category.

The right editor may not exist at all, today: nobody knows whether he does, or not.

But when he appears, he'll be able to see your suggestion.

hobart · Jun 23, 2009

But how to communicate with an editor in Romanian ?

jimnoble · Jun 23, 2009

I don't know; I don't understand the language

However, there's probably no need to contact an editor and most ignore emails requesting priority treatment or status reports. Why? Because we're busy building a directory here - not at all the same thing as acting as a listing service for impatient website owners.

hobart · Jun 23, 2009

impatient ?
I will try to do in a such a way not to last more than four years

hobart · Jun 25, 2009

jimnoble said:
I don't know; I don't understand the language

... requesting priority treatment or status reports...

I do not want to have a priority treatment ! :icon_idea
Please do respect the que.
What I want is to find the status of my sites.

Thank you

pvgool · Jun 25, 2009

Petre said:
What I want is to find the status of my sites.

You have been answered several times on that question.
We do NOT provide status of suggestions.
NOT here in Resource-Zone and NOT through email contact.
Please stop asking about the status.

hutcheson · Jun 25, 2009

Here's a useful "thought experiment".

Pretend that you've been told your site will never be listed in the Open Directory.

Now, figure out what you would do.

And then go do it, immediately.

And here's the amazing part:

WHATEVER you do by this rule, it will turn out to have been the right thing to do, EVEN IF YOUR SITE IS LISTED THE VERY NEXT DAY.

Now, what do you need to know from the ODP, to figure out what you need to do next?

Nothing.

That's one of the most important things you can learn about the Open Directory.

The Old Sarge · Jun 25, 2009

Here's another example from a slightly different perspective.

Suppose you're writing a book. Further suppose that I feel I have some proprietary material worthy of inclusion in your book. Maybe I even feel my material should be an entire chapter in your book. Suppose I "suggest" that you make my material chapter12 and you respond with, "Thank you for your suggestion. I'll review it and the material and take appropriate action based on the criteria I’ve set for inclusion in my book. Have a nice day."

Now, suppose I keep pestering you about when the book will come out and whether or not you made my stuff chapter 12. Suppose I don't get the hint that the book is yours and your goal with it is NOT to cater to my wishes and desires or to give exposure to my proprietary material.

Where do you go from here? What do you do?

What should I do?

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