How can I contact my catalog editor?

I submited my website to <Top: Business: Industrial Goods and Services: Machinery and Tools: Vehicle Repair and Maintenance: Diagnostic> on 12/23/2008.
Now it have been not listed in the catalog I choose,and I am sure I have selected a correct catalog,
but I can't find the editor's information,I want to contact him/her.who can help you? many thanks

You might have misunderstood our objectives and how we operate here. ODP is a volunteer organisation building a directory as a hobby. Editors edit where they wish, when they wish and as much as they wish within the constraints of their permissions. We have no schedules or systems to force people to do work that they don't volunteer to do. ODP is not primarily a free listing service for website owners and it does not attempt to process their listing suggestions within the time scales desired by them.

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 because a later suggestion overwrites any earlier one.

Several hundred editors can work in that category if they so wish but they set their own priorities as you now know. There's no need to contact anybody to say that your website is more important/valuable than all the others .

thank you very much for your quick answer

thank you very much for your quick answer

If there's no enthusiasm, why not get new editors?

By saying that your objectives here is "hobby" in nature, wouldn't you be less self-serving and more website surfer/shopper serving if you worked to change that?
DMOZ is a very big resource for web surfers, and it "should" command an equal level of respect and time commitment by its editors.
If this is distasteful to editors, perhaps an editor purge would be a good idea, allowing them to have more time w/ their personal "hobbies" and leaving editing to those who really want to be aggressive in providing us w/ a great website resource directory.

By saying that your objectives here is "hobby" in nature, wouldn't you be less self-serving and more website surfer/shopper serving if you worked to change that?

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If it wasn't a hobby which we enjoyed doing in our free time, why on earth would there be any editors at all -- apart from those who were only editing in order to list their own sites? With the exception of a hand-full of paid staff members on the AOL payroll all our editors are volunteers that help to build a useful directory because they enjoy doing so.

perhaps an editor purge would be a good idea, ... leaving editing to those who really want to be aggressive in providing us w/ a great website resource directory.

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And that would increase the collective volume of editing activity how exactly?

There is no quota or numbers restriction on editors, and the fact that a certain editor has permissions in a particular category in no way prevents other editors from also editing there. Removing an editor who does 1000, 100, 10, or even just 1 edit each month, will just mean that 1000, 100, 10 or 1 edits less are done each month, and the directory is worse off as a result.

We always welcome new editors who want to improve the directory, and somewhere around 60 new editors join the project each week.

frenchtoast said:

If this is distasteful to editors, perhaps an editor purge would be a good idea, allowing them to have more time w/ their personal "hobbies" and leaving editing to those who really want to be aggressive in providing us w/ a great website resource directory.

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Whoah, there. I submitted my main site in July/August of 2008 and haven't heard a peep, but reading the FAQ let me know that's somewhat normal. The category I submitted to doesn't have an editor so it's not a top priority for other editors, but purging? They have a shortage of editors already, why make it worse?

After a couple of months I applied to help edit, I figure I can help process some of the backlog and contribute something as opposed to just complaining about it. Maybe I'll be able to help, maybe I'll get rejected, either way at least I'm trying to be positive about it. Anyway, listing in DMOZ isn't a life or death situation, I've done okay while waiting for my site to be reviewed.