Submitting a website??

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blakeyuk

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I hope this is in the correct place, please move it if it isnt.

Is it true that it can take up to 10 years for a website to get listen in dmoz? If so will there ever be a payment process where sites can be fast tracked?

I submitted my online community to dmoz about 2 years ago, and Im still waiting for it to be added to the directory.

The site I have been trying to submit is:

Catagory:http://www.dmoz.com/Society/Religion_and_Spirituality/Christianity/Chats_and_Forums

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I am aware that dmoz recomend that we dont keep trying to add our sites, which is why i have brought this subject up instead of re-submitting it.

Any suggestions dmoz can give will be greatly appreciated.

Many Thanks

Andy
 
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arubin

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I will answer only one of your questions; if there is ever a paid submission process, many of the editors will resign. It would violate the social contract.
 
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Is it true that it can take up to 10 years for a website to get listen in dmoz?
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Well, since the directory has not yet existed for 10 years, that is baseless speculation.

Sites can and do wait years for editors to review them. Sites and and are listed without ever being suggested.

Your mileage may vary.

If so will there ever be a payment process where sites can be fast tracked?
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No because that would violate our social contract and lead to wholesale resignations within the editor community.

I submitted my online community to dmoz about 2 years ago, and Im still waiting for it to be added to the directory.
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A single resubmission to the single best category will not be held against you. Since it is a forum, make sure that you have significant volume of existing postings. Think thousands to tens of thousands.
 
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On the other hand, I've listed sites the day after they submitted. It depends on what area an editor happens to be working in on a particular day, it's very random. :)

I, personally, have never seen a site older than two years, many are in the 6 month to a year range. When I'm working in a particular category, there's usually a range of submission dates, it's not something I pay too much attention to, because it's not important to what I'm doing.
 
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However, as editors, we're not so much concerned with individual 'waits' on individual sites. What we're really interested in is trying to ensure that the categories (and the directory as a whole) are useful to users. This means that we cover lots of topics, and for each one provide a useful list of sites.

Public suggestions are just one source of sites for editors to consider for review. It's by no means the only one, and editors are encouraged to go out and find good sites on their own. In some areas the public suggestions are a good source of sites, in others what we get is mostly unlistable.


We're here to build a directory, not as a listing service for webmasters. Given the number of volunteer editors and the number (and quality) of public suggestions, it's unfortunate but some delay on some good publicly suggested sites is inevitable.
 
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We do not list websites because they've a lot of members. But because we think theirs content is useful.
 
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kazhar said:
We do not list websites because they've a lot of members. But because we think theirs content is useful.
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I never said you did, however one responce I got 6 months ago told me that, that was one of the reasons. My content is made up of what our members are interested in, and would therefore interest other members.
 
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blakeyuk

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informator said:
Stop doing that, it´s against our Guidelines, please read them.
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I ment I have submitted it several times in the past 2 and half years. I have read that as long as you dont keep submitting it regularly is ok.
 
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http://dmoz.org/add.html:
Please only submit a URL to the Open Directory once. Again, multiple submissions of the same or related sites may result in the exclusion and/or deletion of those and all affiliated sites. Disguising your submission and submitting the same URL more than once is not permitted.
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We´ve made some exceptions to that rule because of the server problems last year, but the "submit once"-rule is still considered the norm.
 
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blakeyuk

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informator said:
http://dmoz.org/add.html:

We´ve made some exceptions to that rule because of the server problems last year, but the "submit once"-rule is still considered the norm.
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Thanks, I didnt know. I read that the editers only look at things they are interested in, are there any Christian editors in the Christian message board area?
 
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are there any Christian editors in the Christian message board area?
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You can see if there are any listed editors in a category by looking at the bottom of the category. As well, all parent category editors and over 200 editors with access to the entire directory can edit any given category. We don't know what religion anyone who might edit in that category might follow. ;)
 
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motsa said:
You can see if there are any listed editors in a category by looking at the bottom of the category. As well, all parent category editors and over 200 editors with access to the entire directory can edit any given category. We don't know what religion anyone who might edit in that category might follow. ;)
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It dosnt look like there is so have applied to become and editor.
 
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blakeyuk

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homebody said:
It must be frustrating for the editors to keep seeing these requests for an update on a submission, when this forum is clearly NOT supposed to be for that purpose.
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Very true, but then its also frustrating for those who have in the past recieved emails and PMs from those moderators telling them how to get listed in the directory (by submitting using the correct method on dmoz).

Dmoz is a great site, ive used it for a long time, however ive noticed that the catagories im interested havnt been updated for along time now, surely theres got to be a mod out there who will update the religious message boards catagory, if a page dosnt get updated now and again people will get bored of it.

By the way, I dont want to get into dmoz because of its hits from google etc, in the 3 years ive waited to get onto dmoz ive got my pages listed on google, and have grown to over 1300 members, however Dmoz has been a favourite of mine, and I would see it more as an honor to be listed on Dmoz. I hope a moderator will take what I have said into consideration.

Thank you.
 
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Editors are volunteers and edit when and where they wish within their permissions. In most walks of life, telling volunteers to do something they don't want to do has predictable results - which is why we don't do it here. If a category isn't being actively edited, you can deduce that all the editors who could work there prefer to edit elsewhere - or take the dog for a walk or do whatever. That's OK because they're volunteers.

If you feel strongly that an area could do with more editorial effort, why not apply to edit there yourself? Be part of the solution :). Before doing so, I suggest that you first study the good advice in FAQ and General Advice.
 
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