No category for Puppy Linux

While trying to submit my web site I found the following category and description which I believe is applicable:

Category:
Top: Computers: Software: Operating_Systems: Linux: Support: FAQs,_Help,_and_Tutorials
Description: If your tutorial is project specific, please submit it to the appropriate category for that project. If it is distribution specific, please submit it to the category for that distribution.

I want to submit my site to the category for the Puppy Linux distribution but I am unable to find such a category, where is it and how can I submit my site to it?

PS: I make this post with trepidation as what I have read in this forum gives me little confidence that I will get any useful help here but I figure the worst that can happen is I will have wasted just enough time to join and make one enquiry.

The standard approach, if there is no category available, is:

(1) suggest the site to the parent category (the category that you think should contain the new subcategory).
(2) Mention in the description that the site might fit a new subcategory.

Obviously, a category isn't going to be created for just one site. So?

So, suggest some other sites that should go into the same subcategory--they can be new sites that you know about (because of your familiarity with the subject) or sites that are already listed in the parent category, but would fit better in the subcategory.)

If the taxonomic suggestion is reasonable, five or so sites would be adequate to establish a need for a subcategory.

Hopeless

You can’t be serious. I see how hard it is just getting one site listed and you recommend I not only suggest a new category but five additional sites as well?

Ofcourse. Everybody can help improve te directory. Even people who are not an editor.
When you suggest 5 websites for a new category there is a great chance that we will noitce these websites and create that category.
You have helped us to improve the directory. You have helped people looking for that subject. And as a bonus your website got listed.
Everybody happy.

Do not ask what DMOZ can do for you. Ask what you can do for DMOZ.

If you had been wanting to promote Puppy Linux based on your own knowledge and experience, I do not believe you'd have found anything at all difficult in those instructions.

When I began working on a website, I knew of about 2 dozen sites on the subject. I had looked at them first, of course, because I didn't want to duplicate what someone else was doing. Really, where's the difficulty?

Finding someone interested enough in the subject (for its own sake) to build a category for it? (I had me.) Finding five sites? (I already had two dozen--all those sites that would have been on my own site's links page.)

pvgool said:

Don't ask what ... (snip misquote)

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You are quoting (distorting) the words of a great man who you are in no way entitled.

PS: The rest of your post smacks of propaganda or press release.

hutcheson said:

If you had been wanting to promote Puppy Linux based on your own knowledge and experience, I do not believe you'd have found anything at all difficult in those instructions.

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Your instructions are ludicrous for the following reasons:

1 I had / have no interest in becoming an editor.

2 There is no facility for suggestion a new category.

3 There is no facility for simultaneously suggesting five sites.

Or do you recommend I suggest five sites one at a time and thus waste five times as much effort on a clearly hopeless endeavor?

(1) Given that you're not interested in being an editor, your options are limited to making suggestions. So you should ignore any part of the instructions that can't be done through the "suggest a site" link. (Fortunately, I had considered this possibility, and revised the instructions accordingly.)

(2) There is indeed no facility for suggesting a new category. That's why you must mention the proposed category as part of some site suggestion.

(3) There is indeed no facility for simultaneously suggesting five sites. Most people seem to find it easier to suggest one site at a time. (We programmers call it "serial" rather than "parallel" execution.) You could, I suppose, synchronize your suggestions with five friends on five separate own workstations. But technically, that doesn't give any advantage to anyone.

How many sites and categories should a directory have, in order to give hope that more new categories can be created, and more new sites added? (The Open Directory currently has over 4 million sites and almost 600 thousand categories.) But if that's not large enough, no problem and no hard feelings, you're always welcome to use your time to make suggestions only to the larger directories.

hutcheson said:

So you should ignore any part of the instructions that can't be done through the "suggest a site" link.

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You don’t make any sense. AFAIK it is impossible for members of the public to take any kind of action that does not involve using the “suggest a site” facility thus your comments are of no practical use whatsoever.

Someday, perhaps, there'll be an editor interested in Puppy Linux, eager to build a category for it (even without help), and able to follow the editors' guidelines (which are, admittedly, somewhat more complex than the submitters' policies.) That's how progress happens. In the meantime, you can focus on making sure that your site represents your own unique experience and knowledge of the subject, to establish the reputation it deserves in the Puppy Linux community. (That community is the most likely source for our volunteer editor, of course.)

why - I've just removed your last post as it was not inline with out posting guidelines. You are more than welcome to visit this forum and ask questions, but we insist that you keep a civil tone to your posts. Inflammatory/rude posts will be removed and you run the risk of your account here being banned.