Hi,
First of all, let me say that I am grateful to the dmoz editors who give unselfishly of their time. I am not talking about you when I say ...
I have submitted 3 sites to DMOZ in the past year, (the most recent was about 4 months ago, the oldest one was in March of last year) and so far none of them have been listed. They were all submitted to a regional category.
These are all perfectly good sites with nothing in common other than they're all located in the same city ... a major city. They are all submitted to different subcategories within the city category. One is a day spa, one is a delivery company, and the other is a photography company.
They're all cross-browser compatible sites.
There has been no change to the number of listings in each of the different categories that these sites were submitted to, which tells me that either the editor doesn't have the time or the desire to review anymore ... or the dmoz is intentionally not adding any more sites to these categories.
If the first is the case (the editor doesn't have the time or the desire to review anymore), then shouldn't dmoz remove the editor and replace them with someone who can fill their responsibility to some degree? Shouldn't an editor be required to do a certain number of reviews per month to remain an editor?
If the second is the case, and dmoz is not interested in adding any more sites to some categories, then shouldn't they just close submissions to the category down and display a notice that they're not accepting any more submissions?
I sincerely hope that someone can shed some light on this for me.
First of all, let me say that I am grateful to the dmoz editors who give unselfishly of their time. I am not talking about you when I say ...
I have submitted 3 sites to DMOZ in the past year, (the most recent was about 4 months ago, the oldest one was in March of last year) and so far none of them have been listed. They were all submitted to a regional category.
These are all perfectly good sites with nothing in common other than they're all located in the same city ... a major city. They are all submitted to different subcategories within the city category. One is a day spa, one is a delivery company, and the other is a photography company.
They're all cross-browser compatible sites.
There has been no change to the number of listings in each of the different categories that these sites were submitted to, which tells me that either the editor doesn't have the time or the desire to review anymore ... or the dmoz is intentionally not adding any more sites to these categories.
If the first is the case (the editor doesn't have the time or the desire to review anymore), then shouldn't dmoz remove the editor and replace them with someone who can fill their responsibility to some degree? Shouldn't an editor be required to do a certain number of reviews per month to remain an editor?
If the second is the case, and dmoz is not interested in adding any more sites to some categories, then shouldn't they just close submissions to the category down and display a notice that they're not accepting any more submissions?
I sincerely hope that someone can shed some light on this for me.