submission status forum???

[Kazing]

I tried to post a similar retraction in WW when i noticed your posts in this thread http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum17/2493-3-10.htm but its closed.

I meant monster in the large way of course not the bad way and yeah, i do like that imagery, a collective beast not singular, i see your point. I guess i can only keep adding original content and hope i will be forgiven for my ranting post.
If its roughly 1 in 100 getting accepted, i guess things are par for the course.
Respectfully
Kazing

 

[hutcheson]

Just in case you wondered -- I wasn't offended by the "monster" term, because I took it as you say you meant.

It's not one in 100 getting accepted, it's one in 100 getting accepted AFTER A REJECTION. It's one in five or ten getting accepted the first time around. And don't take those numbers as disheartening -- the second statistic is only about how hard the spammers work. The first number is about how well our editors do their work.

The good news is, most editors are very good at listing the sites that should be listed (the first time around!). We don't blame a body for submitting a good site, just because ten other people had recently spammed that category, we're thankful for the good help; it justifies the public submittal process in spite of the spam.

 

[Kazing]

And don't take those numbers as disheartening

Thanks for the clarification !

 

[MaryBeau]

Do you think you are providing a service? Do you Care?

Whatever that other course of action you are thinking about is, take it now. You will need to do it regardless of whether or not your site is ever included in the ODP. If you rely on an ODP listing to make your site successful, you will fail.

I have another site that shows within the first 5 site when searhing by MSN, Yahoo and Google and it is a huge category. I do know what I am doing. That is why I am concerned that a site that is valid with no intent to spam can be igored by you. What is the intent of DMOZ? Are you not trying to provide a service? Do you not care whether or not you are doing a good job?

As long as so many search engines rely on your list, getting a site on it is important to making the site successfull with regard to its positioning with search engines.

Getting good sites in your list should be important to DMOZ with regard to whether or not it thinks it is successfully accomplishing its goals.

 

[pvgool]

What is the intent of DMOZ? Are you not trying to provide a service? Do you not care whether or not you are doing a good job?

As long as so many search engines rely on your list, getting a site on it is important to making the site successfull with regard to its positioning with search engines.

Ofcourse we care about doing a good "job". But our job is not about listing sites because search engines (or webmasters) rely on our list. It is about listing sites which are in our eyes worth listing and have anything to add to the sites already listed. We call this "enough unique content". In some categories it is very easy to provide this unique content, in some other categories it is almost impossible to come up with a new site worth listing.

 

[hutcheson]

>What is the intent of DMOZ?

To index the sum of human knowledge on the internet, for the benefit of surfers.

>Are you not trying to provide a service?

To webmasters? Absolutely not. Sorry for the confusion, I wish I knew who was spreading that malicious lie. I think there are people that deliberately sow distrust about the ODP by telling webmasters it's just another free-for-all listing service. We do what we can to dispel that confusion, but -- you really need to be careful about who you believe, online as well as in real life.