How to contact a editor directly

fed2000

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Is there a way that we can directly contact the editor of a directory?

I would rather find out the preferences of a particular editor ahead of time.. rather then waste my time and the editors time by submitting a site just to have it get denied in the year 2007
 

photofox

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Hello,

Most of the time the editor who works on that particular category is noted at the bottom of the category page or on the parent category page. However your best bet is to ask your questions here as it is unlikely an editor will respond to a direct email...
 

fed2000

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photofox said:
Hello,

Most of the time the editor who works on that particular category is noted at the bottom of the category page or on the parent category page. However your best bet is to ask your questions here as it is unlikely an editor will respond to a direct email...

He will for the right price ;)
 

jeanmanco

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Any attempt to bribe an editor will result in the blacklisting of the sites of the person offering the bribe.

If you have money you want to spend on having a site listed, the sensible thing to do is go to the many commercial directories eager to oblige you.

The Open Directory has a different modus operandi. It is staffed by volunteers who aim to categorise sites for the benefit of visitors.
 

fed2000

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jeanmanco said:
Any attempt to bribe an editor will result in the blacklisting of the sites of the person offering the bribe.

If you have money you want to spend on having a site listed, the sensible thing to do is go to the many commercial directories eager to oblige you.

The Open Directory has a different modus operandi. It is staffed by volunteers who aim to categorise sites for the benefit of visitors.

I was joking. However, I seriously doubt that all volunteers do so out of the goodness of their hearts
 

spectregunner

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I was joking.

We, collectively, do not think it is funny.

We take bribery very, very seriously, and see absolutely no humor on the subject -- and since this is the second thread where you have made similar attepts at humor, consider this a wake up call.

Don't do it again.
 

fed2000

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spectregunner said:
We, collectively, do not think it is funny.

We take bribery very, very seriously, and see absolutely no humor on the subject -- and since this is the second thread where you have made similar attepts at humor, consider this a wake up call.

Don't do it again.


Whatever, you guys are entirely to defensive about it.

Being ultra defensive makes you look suspicious as hell, if you can't take it like a grain of salt so be it, ban me.
 

nea

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Okay, disregarding the whole bribery thing (because I just responded to it in another thread), here's a response to your original post:

I would rather find out the preferences of a particular editor ahead of time.. rather then waste my time and the editors time by submitting a site just to have it get denied in the year 2007
Writing such an email would be a waste of your time; not because the editor wouldn't answer (they are encouraged not to, but many do anyway, as you say out of the goodness of their hearts) but for two other reasons. First, you can't know which editor would review your site. There's a number of editors who can edit in any given category and nobody can know in advance which of all these editors will be the one to look at your particular site suggestion. Second, the relevant thing is the category, not the editor. Yes, editors are human and sometimes make mistakes when judging where a site should go, but you can't make the assumption that this will happen - you need to suggest your site to the one best category for it to decrease the time until review. Oh, and also (three. Three reasons!) if you were to write an editor and get a response, chances are s/he would just send you to R-Z anyway.
 

fed2000

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nea said:
Okay, disregarding the whole bribery thing (because I just responded to it in another thread), here's a response to your original post:


Writing such an email would be a waste of your time; not because the editor wouldn't answer (they are encouraged not to, but many do anyway, as you say out of the goodness of their hearts) but for two other reasons. First, you can't know which editor would review your site. There's a number of editors who can edit in any given category and nobody can know in advance which of all these editors will be the one to look at your particular site suggestion. Second, the relevant thing is the category, not the editor. Yes, editors are human and sometimes make mistakes when judging where a site should go, but you can't make the assumption that this will happen - you need to suggest your site to the one best category for it to decrease the time until review. Oh, and also (three. Three reasons!) if you were to write an editor and get a response, chances are s/he would just send you to R-Z anyway.

Thanks for the usefull post
 

hutcheson

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Fed2000, the process you propose would make the ODP much less efficient if any substantial number of submitters tried it.

The current process can handle that efficiently. Let it do it. The current process gives much less preference to sites whose webmasters waste editors' time, and that is also very valuable to us.
 
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