ODP License Violation
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spectregunner
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Patience is a virtue
Possessit if you can
It is seldom found in women
And rarely found in men.
----
a favorite saying of Grandmother spectregunner.
Your grandmother is a wise woman. I know she's right but but I like this better....
Patience is not a virtue
it's a method of self-depravation
an action of non-confrontation
if all we do is wait
meditate and deliberate
we will live our lives
never moving, always ....
continued here...
http://www.fictionpress.com/read.php?storyid=1864967
Patience is not a virtue
it's a method of self-depravation
an action of non-confrontation
if all we do is wait
meditate and deliberate
we will live our lives
never moving, always ....
continued here...
http://www.fictionpress.com/read.php?storyid=1864967
fredr, there is some wisdom in that also. So -- go NOW, and do what you'd have done if you already knew your website was going to be rejected from the ODP with extreme prejudice.
If you find that out someday, you'll not have wasted any time. And even if you find out otherwise, you'll STILL be a leg up on websites with only an ODP listing and no other promotion.
And if you're not willing to do what it takes -- all by yourself -- to both operate and promote the website -- even without any promotional services from the ODP, then ... it's good to know that also. Cut it loose, now. Recycle the server, and move on.
If you find that out someday, you'll not have wasted any time. And even if you find out otherwise, you'll STILL be a leg up on websites with only an ODP listing and no other promotion.
And if you're not willing to do what it takes -- all by yourself -- to both operate and promote the website -- even without any promotional services from the ODP, then ... it's good to know that also. Cut it loose, now. Recycle the server, and move on.
Trying again, in smaller words.
There are two kinds of questions: "theoretical curiosity" and "practical" ones.
I'm not opposed to curiosity ("addicted" is more like it), but it's best not to involve particular sites in that kind of question.
So I assume your question is "practical" -- that is, the answer you get will have some effect on what you decide to do next. (If there is no practical effect of an answer, then it's just prurient curiosity -- and no point in volunteers wasting their time on it.)
Well, then, the practical advice I can give you is this: there IS no HONEST practical value to that kind of question.
If your site is listed in the ODP -- the only person who has any responsibility for building it and promoting it is you. And the responsibility is only to yourself. And only you know what that responsibility is.
If your site is not listed in the ODP -- the only person who has any responsibility for building it and promoting it is you. And the responsibility is only to yourself.
On the day when a listing is added to the ODP, nothing changed in your responsibility.
On the day when a listing was removed from the ODP, nothing changed in your responsibility.
On the day when the site was reviewed by an editor but no action was taken -- nothing changed in your responsibility.
So -- you already know what to do. What you need to do if the site has not yet been rejected, and what you need to do if the site has been rejected forever, is exactly the same.
So: assume the site has been rejected forever. And go do what you know you need to do.
Suppose you don't take my advice. You sit around for two years, waiting until you hear from us that the site is of no interest to surfers.
You can close it down then, or you can start promoting it yourself, after having wasted two years.
Why wait? Start now.
There are two kinds of questions: "theoretical curiosity" and "practical" ones.
I'm not opposed to curiosity ("addicted" is more like it), but it's best not to involve particular sites in that kind of question.
So I assume your question is "practical" -- that is, the answer you get will have some effect on what you decide to do next. (If there is no practical effect of an answer, then it's just prurient curiosity -- and no point in volunteers wasting their time on it.)
Well, then, the practical advice I can give you is this: there IS no HONEST practical value to that kind of question.
If your site is listed in the ODP -- the only person who has any responsibility for building it and promoting it is you. And the responsibility is only to yourself. And only you know what that responsibility is.
If your site is not listed in the ODP -- the only person who has any responsibility for building it and promoting it is you. And the responsibility is only to yourself.
On the day when a listing is added to the ODP, nothing changed in your responsibility.
On the day when a listing was removed from the ODP, nothing changed in your responsibility.
On the day when the site was reviewed by an editor but no action was taken -- nothing changed in your responsibility.
So -- you already know what to do. What you need to do if the site has not yet been rejected, and what you need to do if the site has been rejected forever, is exactly the same.
So: assume the site has been rejected forever. And go do what you know you need to do.
Suppose you don't take my advice. You sit around for two years, waiting until you hear from us that the site is of no interest to surfers.
You can close it down then, or you can start promoting it yourself, after having wasted two years.
Why wait? Start now.
Dear Stephen,
I started this discussion thread in an effort to make things right and I asked some simple questions. In the process, I have met some very nice, gracious and professional editors and that is NEVER EVER a waste of time.
The fact is that you are the one editor with the authority to re-list the site in a minute. Instead you choose to compose a lengthy hypothesis based on wrong assumptions. That speaks far louder than your words.
I suggest that your approach does not serve the users of your directory, operations and the recruitment of future editors. With that said, I fully understand the implications to follow.
Best Regards,
Fred Roosli
Chef2Chef.Net
I started this discussion thread in an effort to make things right and I asked some simple questions. In the process, I have met some very nice, gracious and professional editors and that is NEVER EVER a waste of time.
The fact is that you are the one editor with the authority to re-list the site in a minute. Instead you choose to compose a lengthy hypothesis based on wrong assumptions. That speaks far louder than your words.
I suggest that your approach does not serve the users of your directory, operations and the recruitment of future editors. With that said, I fully understand the implications to follow.
Best Regards,
Fred Roosli
Chef2Chef.Net
jimnoble
DMOZ Meta
Nope, there are well over 200 of us.
What we don't do here is give priority to webmasters who tell us here that we could list their site in a minute. We just don't subscribe to the view that those who shout loudest deserve the promptest attention.
Presumably you've resuggested your website to some appropriate category. Be assured that we'll get to it - in our timescale, which isn't necessarily the same as your preferred one.
This thread seems to have exhausted its usefulness (and its earlier stages were useful). Closing.