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resullivan

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I am trying to submit www.equipmentremarketing.com. Someone told me that it was being rejected because it says it is a gateway page. I think that it is being automatically rejected. It is not a gateway page. On the server it is on it is a subdomain and not the main domain name. Could this be the reason for this?

EDIT: I have resubmitted in the past couple months and I am not sure of the current status.
 

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If it conforms with our requirements as defined in http://dmoz.org/add.html , there's no reason why it wouldn't be listed in time. Since you say you've already suggested it more than once, there's no point in doing so again.

I haven't checked its current status and ODP history because we no longer do that here.
 

resullivan

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The site does meet those requirements however it was still rejected. I am trying to figure out exactly why that is.

EDIT: http://www.resource-zone.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=38922
I do not know if it is automatically rejecting it based on the original submission of a site that was a mirror (It was not my intention when I submitted it that it was going to be a mirror however, as described in the link above, it ended up that way). This has been taken care of so I am just trying to figure this out.
 

resullivan

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I would just like to add that I am not asking for you to explain anything to me nor tell me the status of my submission. I am just wanting to point out that I have a site that meets the dmoz requirements that is submitted in the proper catagory that is for some reason being automatically rejected. I would appreciate if this could be looked into to see if maybe there is some kind of error or if it being rejected for a good reason.
 

resullivan

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jimnoble said:
Why do you think it's no longer awaiting evaluation?

I am not sure what the status is now. I had submitted the same site about 6 months ago and was told by an editor that it was rejected because of something about it being a gateway page. I am not sure if it was rejected automatically or by an editor.

About 2 months ago I resubmitted the same site with no changes so I am trying to make sure that it makes it through this time (to be evaluated by an editor). As you can tell by the linked thread I have been patient and have since conformed to all the requirements of dmoz.org.

I fully understand that the information that can be given is very limited. I just wanted to bring this to the attention of someone that I have a site that meets all the requirements of dmoz.org that is for some reason being rejected. I would appreciate it if someone could just look into it to ensure that there is no type of error happening and that the site is being rejected for a good reason (which if it is being rejected for some reason I understand why you can not tell what the reason is).
 

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resullivan said:
just wanted to bring this to the attention of someone that I have a site that meets all the requirements of dmoz.org that is for some reason being rejected.
It is very unlikely that the editor who will do the review of your site will be reading your postings at R-Z. Only the site itself will be evaluated, on itself it will have to prove that it is listable.

resullivan said:
I would appreciate it if someone could just look into it
I'm afraid that won't happen. How many people would be asking for favors like this if we were going to do site reviews on request.

resullivan said:
to ensure that there is no type of error happening and that the site is being rejected for a good reason (which if it is being rejected for some reason I understand why you can not tell what the reason is).
We (almost) never tell the reason why a site is rejected. From our experience we know it is almost of no use to do so (99,99% of rejected sites can not be changed to meet the DMOZ requirements) and if we do it will often only result in very negative reseponses.
 

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pvgool said:
It is very unlikely that the editor who will do the review of your site will be reading your postings at R-Z. Only the site itself will be evaluated, on itself it will have to prove that it is listable.


I'm afraid that won't happen. How many people would be asking for favors like this if we were going to do site reviews on request.


We (almost) never tell the reason why a site is rejected. From our experience we know it is almost of no use to do so (99,99% of rejected sites can not be changed to meet the DMOZ requirements) and if we do it will often only result in very negative reseponses.

I believe that my site is being rejected automatically (before it is evaluated by the editor).

I am not asking that you look at my site but rather check the dmoz side. It is my responsibility that the site meet the rules set by dmoz. While I fully understand that acceptance is not gauranteed, It seems to me that if a site meets the requirements laid out by dmoz then it should be reviewed by an editor.

In the link listed above the site was rejected, rightfully so, because it was a mirror. The site that was rejected was usedmachines.biz. I explained the best I could in that discussion how this had happened. It has since been taken care of. I do not know how dmoz works nor am I asking you to reveal any secrets, but if it is being automatically rejected based on a mistake made over a year ago then I am asking that something be done that will allow the site to make it to the stage where it will be reviewed by an editor.
 

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I believe that my site is being rejected automatically (before it is evaluated by the editor).

The odds of that occurring are so low as to be inprobable. We simply do not have a room full of bots that autoreject submissions.
 

resullivan

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Is there a way for me to tell how many different editors there are in within a given catagory?

EDIT: I feel better knowing that it is very unprobable that my site is being automatically rejected.
 

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A few hundred - but please bear in mind that most of them have a pool of over half a million categories to choose from when deciding where they're going to edit.
 
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