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jimnoble
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I could type out a standard reply here, but it would be taken from the FAQ (linked above) so you might as well read that 
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Result from what?Nicoleta said:I meant Result
You do know that DMOZ is not a listing service?
The only thing you can do is suggest a website (not necessarely yours). The result will be a confirmation page shown to you and the website will be place into a pool with many other websites for editors to use as a source to build the directory. But it is only one of many sources and certainly not the one with the highest quality.
How to find a list with:
- sites banned ?
- sites waiting for approval ?
- sites rejected ?
It is important also for you to have an horizon.
People just assume what could be happen
Assuming is maybe the worst way of thinking.
If it is a religion just let us know just to pray to our god and to hope to reach the heaven.
As we (assume we) have not many sins (mistakes) we ASSUME our site will be accepted. When? After die
You'll put probably the sentence with ... bla bla bla .... volunteer ...
or
... bla bla bla ... not listing site :icon_idea
all of us must know, in a reliable term :
- the status of a site
- what is wrong
Otherwise we'll feel we are in an esoteric organization.
In this case, who is the GURU ?
- sites banned ?
- sites waiting for approval ?
- sites rejected ?
It is important also for you to have an horizon.
People just assume what could be happen
Assuming is maybe the worst way of thinking.
If it is a religion just let us know just to pray to our god and to hope to reach the heaven.
As we (assume we) have not many sins (mistakes) we ASSUME our site will be accepted. When? After die
You'll put probably the sentence with ... bla bla bla .... volunteer ...
or
... bla bla bla ... not listing site :icon_idea
all of us must know, in a reliable term :
- the status of a site
- what is wrong
Otherwise we'll feel we are in an esoteric organization.
In this case, who is the GURU ?
jimnoble
DMOZ Meta
I'm happy to see that you seem to have read the FAQ and previous replies.
I'm sorry to see that you think that asking similar questions in a confrontational way will produce different answers.
There are three ways to help:
(1) Volunteer to help build a category by finding good sites and writing descriptions.
(2) Review a category and report errors in the listings.
(3) Suggest a site.
If all you want to do is suggest a site, that's fine. But if that's all you want to do, you don't need any esoteric information. You've suggested a site, you've done all that you're willing to do to help.
You don't need ANY additional information--because there's nothing helpful you can do with any additional information. When you're willing to volunteer to give other help, then you'll have access to the information needed to do that.
The emphasis is on "helpful." The process is designed, from beginning to end, to help editors build categories. Anything that doesn't accomplish that, isn't supported.
(1) Volunteer to help build a category by finding good sites and writing descriptions.
(2) Review a category and report errors in the listings.
(3) Suggest a site.
If all you want to do is suggest a site, that's fine. But if that's all you want to do, you don't need any esoteric information. You've suggested a site, you've done all that you're willing to do to help.
You don't need ANY additional information--because there's nothing helpful you can do with any additional information. When you're willing to volunteer to give other help, then you'll have access to the information needed to do that.
The emphasis is on "helpful." The process is designed, from beginning to end, to help editors build categories. Anything that doesn't accomplish that, isn't supported.
Hello gentlemen !
Please let me express in other words:
I have proposed a site, I believe in a proper way.
Wait to be listed … and wait … and wait.
I found this forum, I read many threads, many replies and I am scared
I put my site in a black hole.
Nobody is able to give me a feed-back. Most moderators, editors, administrators seem to be not kind and not keen to help people. I may wait for weeks or years or forever (if I was wrong). Anyway, nobody will tell me anything concrete.
In this case, what is the reason of this forum?
Please let me express in other words:
I have proposed a site, I believe in a proper way
.Wait to be listed … and wait … and wait
.I found this forum, I read many threads, many replies and I am scared
I put my site in a black hole
.Nobody is able to give me a feed-back. Most moderators, editors, administrators seem to be not kind and not keen to help people. I may wait for weeks or years or forever (if I was wrong). Anyway, nobody will tell me anything concrete.
In this case, what is the reason of this forum?
The purpose of the forum is to help people understand what the Open Directory is, and how it works. Then, they can decide if they want to help. Or they can not be frustrated by expecting something that won't happen.
One important thing to remember is: the site suggestion is just not very important. What if a site is never suggested? The editor may find it and list it anyway! What if a suggestion is helpful but not completely correct? The editor can fix it, that's all. What if a suggestion isn't any help at all? The editor can throw it away, and that's all. And once the site is reviewed, the suggestion doesn't matter AT ALL anymore. The site is its own recommendation.
It's not about site suggestions. They're just one of many tools to help build the directory. So, don't worry about your suggestion. It's there for whatever help it's worth.
And nobody can put your site in a black hole. Nobody can make you wait. You're the one who controls your site. You put it on the web, it will stay there until you take it down. Everyone in your community can link to it, Google can find it, you can buy advertisements for it, everything you want it to do, it can do NOW. The Open Directory can't affect any of those things.
And nobody knows anything more than you do. The only editor who will know anything at all about your site, would be someone who reviews it.
If the site makes a unique contribution to the web, then that's what editors look for.
If the site doesn't make a unique contribution to the web, nobody will ever know that as well as you already do.
One important thing to remember is: the site suggestion is just not very important. What if a site is never suggested? The editor may find it and list it anyway! What if a suggestion is helpful but not completely correct? The editor can fix it, that's all. What if a suggestion isn't any help at all? The editor can throw it away, and that's all. And once the site is reviewed, the suggestion doesn't matter AT ALL anymore. The site is its own recommendation.
It's not about site suggestions. They're just one of many tools to help build the directory. So, don't worry about your suggestion. It's there for whatever help it's worth.
And nobody can put your site in a black hole. Nobody can make you wait. You're the one who controls your site. You put it on the web, it will stay there until you take it down. Everyone in your community can link to it, Google can find it, you can buy advertisements for it, everything you want it to do, it can do NOW. The Open Directory can't affect any of those things.
And nobody knows anything more than you do. The only editor who will know anything at all about your site, would be someone who reviews it.
If the site makes a unique contribution to the web, then that's what editors look for.
If the site doesn't make a unique contribution to the web, nobody will ever know that as well as you already do.
The URL should be written in http://site.ro form or http://www.site.ro form?
The submittal policies allow you to suggest your site twice.
When?
I wouldn't rush to use my second suggestion. Why? I'd wait because THIS might happen: sometime in the future I might realize that my website wasn't originally listable, but I had added new unique content that made it listable.
And if that happened, I'd want to use my second suggestion--if I hadn't already used it.
But, obviously, you're the only person to judge whether that might happen, or if it has already happened. And you are always free to use the second suggestion whenever you want, based on your best judgment.
As to the latest questions:
If the website is in Romanian, YES, the description should be in correct Romanian (which I guess uses diacritics?), and YES, it should be in a subcategory of World: Română. And if you didn't do that before, then YES, it would help us if you made a new, more correct suggestion.
But if you make a mistake in your suggestion, and you don't correct your own suggestion, don't worry, someone else WILL correct it.
When?
I wouldn't rush to use my second suggestion. Why? I'd wait because THIS might happen: sometime in the future I might realize that my website wasn't originally listable, but I had added new unique content that made it listable.
And if that happened, I'd want to use my second suggestion--if I hadn't already used it.
But, obviously, you're the only person to judge whether that might happen, or if it has already happened. And you are always free to use the second suggestion whenever you want, based on your best judgment.
As to the latest questions:
If the website is in Romanian, YES, the description should be in correct Romanian (which I guess uses diacritics?), and YES, it should be in a subcategory of World: Română. And if you didn't do that before, then YES, it would help us if you made a new, more correct suggestion.
But if you make a mistake in your suggestion, and you don't correct your own suggestion, don't worry, someone else WILL correct it.