Update submission ignored

My site <url removed> has been in the ODP directory for over 3 years now. The description needs be updated, and I submitted the update form a few times over the last year and their was no update. I decided not to push it, out of fear that my site would be removed. Is there a solution or should I just let it go?

If the proposed new title or description didn't meet our editor guidelines, they would have been declined - which is an entirely different thing from being ignored.

In my experience, more than 95% of all update requests are little more than attempts to keyword stuff the title and/or description, and are thus declined.

And 3% are requests to move a site to a category where it does not qualify for listing.

It's like most other unfiltered sources of information on the internet: mostly worthless, sure, but we do get some good suggestions. Even on obscure topics, how many of the top 100 Google results will be listable sites? Is MSN search any better? Ordinary site suggestions are widely known to be 90% or more spam, but the rest amount to dozens of new sites found daily.

We don't want to lose these information sources -- low as their S/N ratio is. But the point is, all of them are very unreliable authorities, and we certainly don't want to set any of them up as ANY kind of authority. Just suggestions, that's all.

So don't think of it as "they refused to serve me!" or "they're disobeying my command!" It's "I made a suggestion; they'll deal with it on their judgment of its merits, not mine."

are u sure?

DesertJules said:

And 3% are requests to move a site to a category where it does not qualify for listing.

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How can I move my site to a proper category??

How can I move my site to a proper category??

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You can't but we can. Raise an update request. I suggest that you ignore the temptation to amend the title or description at the same time . If your request is sensible, it'll probably happen. If it isn't, it won't.

You can't. You can make a suggestion, and some editor will review the website with that suggestion in mind.

What the editor does then, will be controlled by the directory standards, not by the suggestion.