status for http://www.freebeeforeignpharmacy.com

Hello.

We've had the site: http://www.freebeeforeignpharmacy.com drop out of dmoz from the following category: http://dmoz.org/Shopping/Health/Pharmacy/Resources_and_Guides/

Can somebody tell me the status of it?

Thanks

Re: status for http://www.freebeeforeignpharmacy.c

It was removed because it is not listable in the ODP, and it will not be listed unless the content changes dramatically. Some details aboiut various types of sites we don't include can be found at http://dmoz.org/guidelines/include.html#notinclude.

Re: status for http://www.freebeeforeignpharmacy.c

The site is a subscription-based service site that does not collect 3rd party affiliate payments, it is not an illegal site, nor does it fit the other criterea for sites that are not to be included (cloaked urls, product listings, site listings, etc.), so I do not understand why it was removed. There are quite a few other sites in dmoz that provide the same service as well. Can you tell me specifically what guideline is preventing it from being accepted into dmoz?

Thanks

Re: status for http://www.freebeeforeignpharmacy.c

There are a couple of reasons, actually. First, the exact same information you provide can be had elsewhere - including on sites that are already listed, as you pointed out. Second, the service you provide is to help people find medication in third-party pharmacies; as you note on your web site, you don't sell anything yourselves. There is an unending supply of such sites and it would not benefit our users in the least to list them all. So the ODP is very cautious with this kind of site - we try not to list them unless there is considerable unique content on the site.

There are some pharmacy-related sites listed today that probably should be weeded out as they don't really come up to scratch. I've raised the question in our internal fora.

Hope this made it somewhat clearer.

Re: status for http://www.freebeeforeignpharmacy.c

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Re: status for http://www.freebeeforeignpharmacy.c

Nea,

Thank you for your reply and for your attempt to clear things up. However, this is not fair or reasonable. Our site was accepted into dmoz to begin with and it offers more quality content than other sites that are in the same category.

First, the exact same information you provide can be had elsewhere - including on sites that are already listed, as you pointed out.

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Our site lists the different types of medication offered at discount prices with detailed descriptions for each use of prescription drug. There are sites that haven't been removed with far less information than we provide, so I still do not understand why our site was singled out if it was accepted in the first place?

Second, the service you provide is to help people find medication in third-party pharmacies; as you note on your web site, you don't sell anything yourselves. There is an unending supply of such sites and it would not benefit our users in the least to list them all.

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Mabey there is a misunderstanding of what our site does. Our site sells a membership service that provides our customers with many discounted healthcare services and prescription medication from highly-rated pharmacies, as well as provided access to other beneficial services such as consultations with doctors and the ability to "Ask an Expert" on ANY Health topic. However, there are sites in the same category that haven't been removed that do not even offer close to the amount of services that we do.

So the ODP is very cautious with this kind of site - we try not to list them unless there is considerable unique content on the site.

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There are sites that haven't been removed in the same category right now that simply list the prescription drug names without detailed descriptions/explanantions. They do not offer the amount of services we do nor do they sell anything themselves, so I do not understand why our site was singled-out to be removed. There's even a site in the same category that only takes you to a splash page that has no content at all. Going by your reason you stated, I do not understand why our site was removed.



The submission instructions/rules for dmoz state

You may not always agree with our choices, but we hope you recognize that we do our best to make fair and reasonable decisions.

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I appreciate ALL of the editor's hard work with dmoz, but please be fair and reasonable. Going by the reasons you have given, there are quite a few other sites that should of been removed from the category before ours. I'd also like to include that unlike some others in the same category, FreebeeForeignPharmacy.com is a professionaly-designed site that is user-friendly and is pleasing to the eye. I feel the removal of our site is unfair and hope for an unbiased editor to look into our reasons for disagreement.

Thank you.

Re: status for http://www.freebeeforeignpharmacy.c

From the posting guideline of this forum:

If your site has been rejected, please keep in mind that arguing about the editorial decision will not be tolerated. Please note that at the bottom of the "add URL" screen it says "Netscape and the ODP have unfettered editorial discretion to determine the structure and content of the directory" and "a site's placement in the directory is subject to change or deletion at any time"

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Re: status for http://www.freebeeforeignpharmacy.c

>However, this is not fair or reasonable. Our site was accepted into dmoz to begin with and it offers more quality content than other sites that are in the same category.

No site is guaranteed a listing; no listing is guaranteed to be permanent.

It is neither fair nor reasonable for you to demand that we do our work in the order you'd prefer, without having a glimmering of understanding of the issues we face nor the work we do.

Perhaps you misunderstand what our site does, and how we go about building it. Certainly you seem to misunderstand what you were told: that other sites will be held to the same standard, and that the editors will discuss the best way to serve our users. Other sites will almost certainly be removed, and you have no right to ask when -- nor which ones, until we decide ourselves.

I'd like to point out that we judge sites on content, not on anyone's nebulous concept of "user-friendliness" or "professionalism in graphic design."

And your insinuation that the editor who reviewed this site was biased is spurned with a small part of the contempt it deserves. That editor has spent thousands of hours of personally own volunteered time, without recompense, without having any web-related healthcare business at all.

That is all.