Society:Relationships:Dating no longer maintained?

Hi guys,

Firstly, well done on a fantastic resource and all the hard work that I am sure goes on "behind the scenes". Working in professional online editorial roles myself for the past 12 years, I know what it takes to produce a quality resource and directory.

Just a heads-up on the Society: Relationships: Dating: Personals: International sections.

Can anyone advise if it is still being maintained? I submitted a large well known site to this section in May 2006 (12 months ago) without it being listed yet (May 2007) (specifically in Society: Relationships: Dating: Personals: International: P)

I understand it can takes months - years - for a listing. However I also noticed most pages have no update 'date stamp' in the footer, and there are also dead listings.

Anyway, all the best with continuing the great DMOZ tradition, and hang in there!

cheers,
Glen

Welcome!

We would appreciate it if you would report any dead links here.. With approximately 7,500 active editors and about 700,000 categories, it is probable, not possible, that some get overlooked from time to time. The lack of a current date stamp suggests that no one had edited in that category since the restoration of service.

If it has been a year since you suggested your site, feel free to suggest it again, as the great server crash of 2006 did result in some data loss. We won't hold a second suggestion against you -- promise.

Thanks very much for pointing me in the right direction.

I will make a collection of deadlinks in that area and add them to the DMOZ dead links section. Should make the life of those involved in the dating section abit easier at least

I re-submitted the site only last week, but noticed the dead links and date stamp only today, so I thought it might be worth bringing up here. My site submitted for review was <site name removed> into the Dating: International: P section.

Thanks alot guys and again, keep up the terrific work you're doing for the online community.

cheers,
Glen

glenster said:

My site submitted for review was <url removed> into the Dating: International: P section.

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Thank you for your assistance, but please do not mention specific URLs here.

No problem!

cheers,
Glen

So just an update on this. I submitted the dead links in the Society Dating section to the dead link thread on these forums.

Less than 24 hours later an editor had removed the dead links completely. Well done!

However, more than 12 (long) months later, I'm still waiting for my site to be submitted to this same section.

Now it may or may not be worthy of this section in the eyes of the editor (it's a clean and popular dating site with over 50,000 registered members and 2 million page impressions per month and fits the DMOZ guidelines perfectly.) but in the spirit of DMOZ and the quality of its directory, I believed the site fitted perfectly. Yeah, that's what they all say I hear you mumble.

Maybe I got lost in "the crash". Maybe I didn't.

Anyway, keep up the good work nonetheless, I guess. I'll check back in 12 months time...

cheers,
Glen

If you last suggested your site a year ago, you may want to resuggest it again as many pending suggestions have not yet been recovered after the crash.

Hi,

I think from memory I re-submitted it again around the 6 month mark (which co-incided around the crash) and about 3 weeks ago. That is indeed enough (and probably once too many).

Having supported DMOZ and it's guidelines and principles for so many years (I've worked in online editing roles for major portals since 1995), I am just abit bewildered to explain how my dead links report can be looked at, updated and removed in 12 hours, yet a legitimate clean and useful new site submission to the same category has been totally ignored (or, bewildingly, refused). If anyone in the Dating editorial office wishes to private message me with any assistance it would be a god send and make me one happy chap after over a year of waiting and just the odd enquiry here on the forums in the past few weeks).

Still, I still support everything you do - keep up the tremendous work.

cheers,
Glen

I am just abit bewildered to explain how my dead links report can be looked at, updated and removed in 12 hours, yet a legitimate clean and useful new site submission to the same category has been totally ignored (or, bewildingly, refused).

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There are many more site suggestions, than dead link reports, and having site suggestions reviewed depends on whether there are any volunteer editors with an interest in editing there, how much free time they have available, and which of the many different jobs they choose to work on.

Also, a site suggestion might not have gone through our spam filters, and gotten kicked out to us yet.

Bad links are a priority and much quicker to take care of, once they're pointed out to us. At times, I'll only take care of update requests, move sites to their proper categories, investigate dead links, or create new subcats and concentrate on just those jobs, without reviewing even one site suggestion in those areas.

When I review site suggestions, I'll most likely ignore those jobs and concentrate on site suggestions (unless I see something that really irritates me).

The Directory is a very large spiderweb, and it's pretty easy to get led away from an area you're working in, if you happen to spot something that takes priority over what you're working on, or captures your interest, .

Clearing up bad links already in a category is a QA activity that is generally done fairly quickly when brought to our attention. But the fact that an editor took care of those doesn't mean that they wanted to also review suggested sites there. Posting here can't be and isn't a fast-track to getting your site reviewed. Please don't ask editors to PM you to help you get your site reviewed faster. Thanks.

Thanks both for the feedback and the clarification of the different roles.

The PM suggestion has only been made after 12 month of still waiting. I am a patient man, at the least.

Well done crowbar on a superb job.

cheers,
Glen