Home Improvement? Editors - are you alive?

I recently sent an email to some AOL CORP exes about the lack of consideration of DMOZ.org editors. I have submitted a site to the home improvement category of dmoz some three years back and have been consistent at attempted to get it listed. Since then there has been really no new listings in the category. It will be interesting to see what AOL has to say about this burnt process.

I recently sent an email to some AOL CORP exes about the lack of consideration of DMOZ.org editors.

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I'm not quite sure what you expect AOL corporate executives do about your wait time but good luck with it.

Since then there has been really no new listings in the category.

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Presumably no editor has found it interesting enough to them to edit. Given that editors edit where they choose, it's not surprising that there are categories that garner little interest.

I recently sent an email to some AOL CORP exes about the lack of consideration of DMOZ.org editors

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We look forward to their response.

ODP is a volunteer organisation and editors edit where they wish, when they wish and as much as they wish within the constraints of their permissions. We have no system to force people to do work that they don't volunteer to do. ODP is not a free listing service for website owners and it does not attempt to process their listing suggestions within the time scales desired by them. Neither is every website guaranteed a listing here.

You seem to have entirely misunderstood our objectives despite the ample available documentation. You might like to begin with this forum's FAQ.

Was there some reason why you decided to ignore our submission guidelines at http://dmoz.org/add.html ? They require that you suggest your website to the one best category once. They also forbid the suggestion of related websites. (You declared that you'd read and agreed them on each occasion.)

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Wow! You all crack me up. Seriously? One word: respect. Where do you get off talking to people like you do?

Where has one of the above replies gone disrepectful? You posted a message that said basically that DMOZ.org hasn't done what you think it should have for you, so you wrote AOL executives. As jimnoble stated we look forward to their response as well. The rest of the responses were directed at your specific comments about DMOZ.

I will carry it one step further, you speak of respect and how you feel the two responders above didn't show you any. However your original post indicated a complete disregard and lack of respect for the guidelines offered by DMOZ for suggesting a site:

thinkthinker said:

I have submitted a site to the home improvement category of dmoz some three years back and have been consistent at attempted to get it listed.

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First of all you suggested a site and its up to volunteers to decide if the suggestion is something that would benefit the category. Most importantly it indicates that you have perhaps violated the guidelines by multiple suggestions of the same site. The only thing I can read from "consistent at attempted to get it listed", is that you have been spamming the directory for three years.

There was no disrespect intended, rather personal opinions based upon your comments. If you don't choose to read them for what they are that is your own choice, but please don't insist that specific, factual responses to your post are disrespectful.