Please Take Me Off ODP!!

Hi,

Can someone please take me off of the ODP? I've really had enough of it. I've waited over a month for my site to be updated, and frankly I'm tired of waiting. I'd rather take my chances with meta tags, than deal with anymore of this crap. I've written my editor (poetry) on several occasions and have not heard back once. I'm fed up with this slow system, and bad service. So, please, take me off:

Poetism.com
http://www.dmoz.org/Arts/Online_Writing/Poetry/Showcases/

Thank you, and Happy Holidays,

Ben Sturges

This appears to be related to http://resource-zone.com/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=54753&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=1

Yes,

And now I would like to be taken off the list please.

Thanks,

Ben Sturges

If, in the judgement of the reviewing editor, the website adds value to the category and would be of benefit to surfers looking in that category, it will continue to be listed.

Having visited your site and found interesting content there, I'm pretty sure that the reviewing editor (someone other than me, I can't edit in that category) will find it to be worthy of continued listing.

I'm sorry if this is inconvenient for you, but we list and categorize websites for the benefit of surfers, not webmasters.

Editors have a lot of things to do that have a higher importance than changing one working URL to another. The purpose of the ODP is not to provide a service to you as a webmaster, but to list links relative to a category. As it is, the update request cannot be honored.

The original URL still works as is, does not redirect at all to the new URL, and when choosing between mirrors, the title of the site and other clues on the page point to the original URL as the main one.

Since the URL provides unique content to the category in question it will not be removed as long as it is still active on the Internet.

Just curious, but if they're really both your sites, why don't you just redirect one to the other? Or if you really want one of them completely deleted from the Internet, why don't you take it down?

The entire point of our directory aside, it seems to me that if we started taking "Hey, please delete http://www.mysite.com from your directory!" requests, everyone's competitor, ex-girlfriend, and practical-joke-playing uncle would be on the line with us within days trying to get their sites removed. If you want a URL changed or removed from the directory, and you are the actual webmaster for that site, then it's entirely within your power to do. Just redirect the less-desired URL or take it down. ONLY you have the keys to your own website design, after all!

Well, if this had been a legitimate request (which according to the ODP editign guidelines it wasn't), and this had been a legitimate way to make such a request (which according to the forum rules it wasn't) then ... well, those would have been the proper editorial responses. I think the discussion to this point more than exhausts the possibilities.

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