False Editors in dmoz ?

It has been over a year since i tried to send my website to the right category.

We have a real estate website, located in Tenerife.

our posting was send to this link in Dmoz.

Now we are over a year further, and we tried to add other real estate webstites from Tenerife also to Dmoz, none of them where accepeted. Now we did some research and we found out that most of the real estate websites listed in this Directory are designed by the "same" company.

After finding out more about this issue it seems that the editor for this group will be the same person as that is running (or working for that) webdesign company.

That issue doesn't seem to be fair to me at all !

Check <url removed> the excact data i wanted to submit

Regards, Sophie

After finding out more about this issue it seems that the editor for this group will be the same person as that is running (or working for that) webdesign company.

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Given that the nearest listed editor is in the Regional/Europe/Spain category, that is very unlikely.

Now we are over a year further, and we tried to add other real estate webstites from Tenerife also to Dmoz, none of them where accepeted.

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The most likely reason is simply that no editor has had a chance to review your suggestion yet.

My excuses , but it seems that editor is in charge of

/Regional/Europe/Spain/Autonomous_Communities/Canary_Islands/

What wonders me is that someone else did some test with a website about real estates and he was accepted in less then 2 weeks, mean while all non-clients from him are waiting for ages

Regards

Sophie

There is no listed editor in http://dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/Spa...nds/Tenerife/Business_and_Economy/Real_Estate . There is no listed editor in http://dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/Spa.../Canary_Islands/Tenerife/Business_and_Economy . There is no listed editor in http://dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/Spain/Autonomous_Communities/Canary_Islands/Tenerife . There is no listed editor in http://dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/Spain/Autonomous_Communities/Canary_Islands . There is no listed editor in http://dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/Spain/Autonomous_Communities . Therefore anyone editing in the Tenerife Real Estate category is either an editall+ editor or is a listed editor in http://dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/Spain , http://dmoz.org/Regional/Europe , or http://dmoz.org/Regional .

As I said, the most likely reason why any listable suggested site hasn't been listed yet is simply that no editor has had a chance to review it.

I can not see any editor in the category you mentioned. If you have any sound evidence for abuse please report this via the "report abuse/spam" link in the category where you assume abuse.


Review of websites may take any duration from several hours up to never in case the site is not listable. More information you will find in the http://resource-zone.com/forum/faq.php?

It's quite common for some types of websites e.g. real estate that they are all created by the same design company/ies. This in itself is not proof of abuse.

The time of suggestion isn't a significant datum for us: either a site is listable when it's reviewed, or it isn't. Nothing else matters. And in fact, an editor can't even SEE "FIRST" submittal date. All that shows is "LATEST" submittal date.

So if you're thinking that you can predict "non-abusive" editor behavior by looking at site submittal dates...you will remain eternally puzzled. But it's a standard principle of logic (on and off the web) that you can't ever rationally assume your own puzzlement is proof of anything except your own misapprehension.

sophiehuys said:

Now we are over a year further, and we tried to add other real estate webstites from Tenerife also to Dmoz, none of them where accepeted. Now we did some research and we found out that most of the real estate websites listed in this Directory are designed by the "same" company.
After finding out more about this issue it seems that the editor for this group will be the same person as that is running (or working for that) webdesign company.
That issue doesn't seem to be fair to me at all !

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FWIW, I know I have done some editing in Regional/Europe/Spain/ and I live in the US, have never travelled to Spain, and do not work for any webdesign companies (which is evident if you have ever looked at my cookie cutter editing website ) so I would be one example against the theory of a competitor 'running a category'. I do know that RE categories in Spain tend to be filled with excessive amounts of spam, so as has previously been mentioned the most likely scenario as to why a listable site hasn't been added is because most editing time is spent removing the spam suggestions and the listable sites haven't been reviewed yet.

Hope that helps.

Ok maybe i am wrong

Maybe i am wrong, but anyhow its strange that most websites in this directory are from the same "webdesign company"

Its a bit of a shame that some place like canary islands,l where real estate is market nr 1 has not a proper listing of real estate companies, i am not speaking in behalf of myself, but of many estate agents.

My request has been posted 1 year and 2 months ago, ,, I have seen other websites added in there, less then 2 months, so something is wrong, however, i cant do anything, i just wished we and some of our collegues websites were listed in there too

thanks for helping me out anyhow, and greetings

Sophia

Maybe the webdesign-company has a good description writer and therefore it is easy for editors to add this sites to the directory. It's only an assumption, but this could be easily the reason .

RE: good description writers:

A few people complained here a few years ago that the web sites for a certain web designer were listed quickly in Regional while theirs weren't. And it was true to a certain extent -- because the web designer whose clients were listed quickly went to the trouble of (a) picking the right category for each site and (b) writing nearly perfect, guidelines-compliant titles and descriptions. Made them easy to review.