my post removed?

sambeckett

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All it said was if you do a seach for my site with google, "lazygirls"

my dmoz forum request post to be added shows up as #2

so it turns out I send more people to the dmoz then the dmoz sends to me.

i have requested over a year ago to be added and my site has over 35,000 members and 100,000 images.


why cant I post that, why was my post removed?
 

sambeckett

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I wasnt asking for status check.

I was just showing people that I send hits to the dmoz because I requested to be in the dmoz. And that talking in these forums helps the dmoz and not you.

Plus I was asking

how many so-called editors do you guys have?
and really why hasn't my site been added?

which neither are a status check.
 

hutcheson

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Check out the ODP status reports, which is probably the best handle available on how many editors they are -- they're in the "Inside the ODP" forum.

As for the other question, it's one of those imponderables. "What kind of conceivable cause would be sufficiently powerful to cause ... nothing to happen?"

Look, man, if nothing happened, nothing doesn't NEED a cause! Nothing can happen anytime at all, anywhere in the universe, without any kind of cause at all!

It's the other way around, always. The only non-nonsensical question would be something like: What causes actual events to happen? That is, what causes editors to review THESE sites, and take THOSE editing actions?

Now, that question's not nonsensical or imponderable. But it's not actually answerable: nobody knows the answer, except maybe the editor that took the action, who might not ever visit this forum. And in any case it's probably irrelevant to you, unless you have some other question which fits that form.
 

makphisto

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hutcheson said:
Look, man, if nothing happened, nothing doesn't NEED a cause! Nothing can happen anytime at all, anywhere in the universe, without any kind of cause at all.

That's deep, hutch. Deep.
 

hutcheson

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I thought it was basic logic, but I'm continually amazed how many people bluster blindly past the blindingly obvious.

"You're supposed to have died! Why haven't you died?"

"It was an oversight..."

(Dr. Who, "The Creature in the Pit")
 

sambeckett

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Why do you mods waste everyone time and posts messages off-subject?

If you don't want to help people then you should just delete your forum account.

I know if I spent all my free time helping other people make money and not making any money because of it myself, I would also have the attitude you guys have. :eek:
 

nea

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Since we don't spend our free time helping other people make money, I wouldn't know what attitude that would bring :phanwink:

However, constantly having to explain what we do to people who don't want to believe it's not about money... yeah, that does wear you down after a while.
 

hutcheson

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Ah, here's a question we can answer:

Q. "What do you guys do to help people make money?"

A. "Nothing. Nothing at all. Counting everything -- from Looksmart, whose net ANNUAL value per licensee plunged by a 7-digit amount about the time major portals started using the ODP, down to the small-time Vstore operator who whined (in these forums) that a potential customer discovered (in these forums) the TRUE source of the goods and services, thus transferring thousands of dollars in sales elsewhere -- I think the balance is that the ODP costs webmasters money. Of course, nobody really cares enough to try to figure out how much money is gained or lost. Whether gain or loss, or just transferred to different intermediaries, it's OK. Because it has nothing whatsoever to do with what we do."
 
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