Some Ideas

OK, so whats about this: Put in the suggestion form an option, where you can choose to recive a confirmation letter...!

This would be very simpel an helps to reduce this when-does-I-submit-to-dmoz problem.

maruan said:

OK, so whats about this: Put in the suggestion form an option, where you can choose to recive a confirmation letter...!

This would be very simpel an helps to reduce this when-does-I-submit-to-dmoz problem.

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And exactly how much simpler still would it be to simply print the confirmation page? Wouldn't that

reduce this when-does-I-submit-to-dmoz problem.

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Bottom line: It does not affect when or if a site is listed. It does not affect when or if a site is reviewed. It does not effect (cause) a review to take place.

Suggestion date only affects what date you can ask here for status, (30 days from last suggestion, thence at 6 month intervals) nothing else.

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Actually, gimmster, it might be helpful in those cases where the confirmation page doesn't complete, for whatever reason.

John_Caius said:

"2. Give the possibility to track the site submission status."

The main reason why this is highly unlikely to be implemented is that it would make it much easier for the spammers to target the ODP - they could see immediately when their application had been rejected and reapply straight away to another category or with their content on a different URL.

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That would only be true if (1) approvals were immediate and (2) the status was updated in real-time. First, excluding any automation that might exist (e.g., scripts that check for a fetchable page from the given URL, content filtering of the site description, etc), the current editorial process (and any backlog) means reviews/approvals/rejections are not (typically) instaneous.

Second, there's no reason to have the status updated in real-time... As I seem to recall from previous discussion, there is no single list of site submissions. But assuming the data exists, I believe it would be fairly trivial to periodically (e.g., nightly) trawl the dmoz category hierarchy to consolidate such a list (into a database or flat file). The script to query the database would also be fairly trivial and have low impact (i.e., in terms of integration) to the existing dmoz site.

Note: the dmoz developers are welcome to contact me to discuss, recruit me as a volunteer, etc.

When suggesting "improvements" you have to ask yourself the following questions:
1) is the improvement going to help the editors to do their job better (in some circumstances faster can be better, in some it isn't)
2) is the impropement going to benefit our customers (the people using our database)

If the answer to both questions is No the change of the "improvement" to be implemented is very near zero. With our limited resources we don't have the time and will to implement things that aren't improvements for us.