Notices

If I'm not mistaken, when people submit a website, all informations provided should logically be stocked under the same ID in a database. And when an editor is done wit a review, the entry must be deleted using a button, along with that line in the database.

Which leads me to think, if you changed that delete button to run just before the deleting part a retrieve mail and a mailing function, a notice could be sent on deletion. And if you make a set of button with a set of predefined email templates, then you'd have a nice bar with a set of delete buttons which sends different reasons for refusal. Seems like something convenient to have.

Of course I can't really check the code or editor interface. Do editors have something like that?

I came after reading a bit of Jim Noble talk on Digital Point, came to this forum, browsed a bit the questions and came to the conclusion that editors probably didn't have that. And I started to wonder who runs the scripts/interface/etc. I've read from Jim Noble:

The ODP servers are owned by AOL and run by AOL systems engineers. ODP editors have no code or operational access.

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Really?

Yes really.

There are loads of reasons for declining to list a website and I'd hate to see the already crowded form made even more complex. Other than such reasons as 'under construction' or 'unavailable' (both of which the site owner presumably already knows) the most common problem is business model - usually not an easy thing to fix.

It's possible for website owners to self check whether or not a website is listable but it seems that few do.

ODP editors have no code or operational access.

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Yes, really.

Clogged editor interface? Does that mean the system keeps getting older and older? AOL only keeps the same script as in 1998 (or almost)? I thought the source codes were also edited by the community like most open projects :/ That's sad.

I thought the source codes were also edited by the community like most open projects :/

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The open in our name refers to the use of our data.

However, AOL is currently investing in DMOZ 2.0 - a complete redevelopment of the code base using this century's technology.

Great news!