I have submitted my site but the Categories never get updated

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Hello all, My categories of metal detecting never get updated, there are more and more dead sites with 404 pages and other that have just turned into spam sites?
Is there anyone that could update these categories? I did apply for admin some time ago now but got turned down.
Would be great if someone could clean up the metal detecting related categories, ever time I check them out they get worst and worst,
Thanks all
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You can help by posting those 404 and spam sites in http://www.resource-zone.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=5420
we have some tools to help us find 404 sites but these tools might miss some errors
 
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Those have all been processed a long time ago (july 2012)
see post 5084 till 5088 in http://www.resource-zone.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=5420&st=5080
as mentioned in that thread
Note: The majority of dead links in #5084 (9 out of 12) had already been removed from the live directory some time ago with some over two years ago. Please be sure you are reporting problem links from an actual dmoz.org link rather than an outdated copy somewhere.
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I see, would you be able to tell me if there is an active admin for the metal detecting related subject as I have requested an addition on 3 occasions through a year plus period with no addition.
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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.
 
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Hello jimnoble, I fully understand and respect what your saying but in this case the admin appears to of give up on keeping this category in shape etc ?
What happens if this is actually the case and an admin has just given up and no longer has time for it and has not notified anyone ?
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No category is assigned to one specific person - On every category, several hundred editors have access. If an editor stops working, that does not change much for the whole project, others can carry on.
 
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To add to the point, if no volunteer editor is interested in editing in a category, it doesn't get edited until some editor is.
 
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To add to the point, if no volunteer editor is interested in editing in a category, it doesn't get edited until some editor is.
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I see, so if there was not an active editor for any of the metal detecting categories active, would I be right in saying other category admins can take over / update etc ?
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No sure, I have only ever submitted to the one category which I believed to be the relevant correct one.
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I had mentioned in a prior reply that I has submitted my site at least 3 times within a year period which I thought was acceptable, In all honesty I thought I had submitted my site to the relevant categories but over the year I may of picked the wrong one I cant remember but it was not intentional.
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See this old thread where I advised you not to suggest your website further.

You did so on Thursday last week - to a different and inappropriate category.

Closing this thread. Do not start yet another thread on the same topic.
 
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