Vacation rental sites

moltovivo · Jul 4, 2009

I've applied several times to a category with 4 listings:
Top: Regional: Middle East: Turkey: Travel and Tourism: Lodging: Vacation Rentals (4)

All four are private vacation rental websites. I run a directory with, sometimes, up to a hundred such rentals listed at any one time.

Are sites like mine actively screened out?

In any case, I would imagine a site like mine would be far more useful to DMOZ users than any of the four mentioned above. I should mention that my websites lists only vacation rentals in Turkey - so the category is quite apt, no?

So why might mine be repeatedly rejected?

jimnoble · Jul 4, 2009

Individual establishments are listed in their localities, not at country level. Only websites with rentals across the country would be listed there. This is all explained in the category's description (link towards top right).

I'm not sure why you think your website has been declined. More likely, it's still awaiting evaluation.

moltovivo · Jul 4, 2009

I'm not sure I follow you. All the four private sites which are listed are at country level. There is no deeper regional level.

My site is 5 years old, and I've submitted several times over those five years, so it must have been rejected at some point surely.

moltovivo · Jul 4, 2009

Ah, I found where the local listings are. So, if I understand you correctly then, the four sites I mentioned are incorrectly listed?

Yet it would be the appropriate place for my site... So is this a mistake on the part of an editor?

Elper · Jul 6, 2009

Not so much a mistake, more work in progress... The four sites will one day be sorted down to appropriate locality subcategories, once these are created.

moltovivo · Jul 6, 2009

Elper said:
Not so much a mistake, more work in progress... The four sites will one day be sorted down to appropriate locality subcategories, once these are created.

Buth there already are local categories, however it is not immediately obvious where they are, since they are in altogether different branches of the tree. For example:

http://www.dmoz.org/Regional/Middle_East/Turkey/Provinces/Izmir/Travel_and_Tourism/Lodging/

Compare to:

http://www.dmoz.org/Regional/Middle_East/Turkey/Travel_and_Tourism/Lodging/Vacation_Rentals/

To me it looks like an oversight by an editor.

Furthermore, there is currently no country-wide website listed, which I must argue is something the directory is lacking. Is there any way I can make the relevant editor aware of this? (Short of becoming an editor myself, that is -- I have applied and been rejected repeatedly)

hutcheson · Jul 6, 2009

You make the relevant editor aware by ... suggesting a site.

We obviously don't know who or when the relevant editor will be: all volunteers with editing privileges in that category can see its suggestion pool.

moltovivo · Jul 7, 2009

I have suggested my site several times over 4 years, as I said.

Clearly there is something wrong with the process - my site should be getting priority, but it obviously is not.

There is a clear preference for small private vacation rental websites, which are placed in the incorrect category.

jimnoble · Jul 7, 2009

my site should be getting priority

Ask a million website owners if they think that their websites should receive priority and they'll all say yes

. Few volunteer editors would be impressed by such a claim.

Volunteer editors tend to give priority to the categories that they're interested in. Within those categories, they tend to give priority to those that have made some attempt at guidelines compliant titles and descriptions.

moltovivo · Jul 11, 2009

jimnoble said:
Ask a million website owners if they think that their websites should receive priority and they'll all say yes . Few volunteer editors would be impressed by such a claim.

Volunteer editors tend to give priority to the categories that they're interested in. Within those categories, they tend to give priority to those that have made some attempt at guidelines compliant titles and descriptions.

I appreciate that, Jim, but I'm saying that the correct procedure is not being followed here. And these 'volunteer editors' are adding websites which are not appropriate to the category, while refusing those that are.

jimnoble · Jul 11, 2009

And these 'volunteer editors' are adding websites which are not appropriate to the category

We're human and we (and you) can make mistakes

.

If you have specific examples of mis-listed websites, please report them in Quality Control Feedback and somebody will attend to them.

while refusing those that are

Unless you're an editor, there's no legitimate way to know that a website has been declined. It's much more likely that nobody has yet looked at it.

moltovivo · Jul 11, 2009

Thanks very much for your advice Jim. I've described the incorrect listings and suggested one corrected placement as an example in this post.

I could suggest corrected placements for the rest of them if it would give my site a chance of getting listed

jimnoble · Jul 12, 2009

I could suggest corrected placements for the rest of them if it would give my site a chance of getting listed

We can work those out for ourselves thanks. Despite the smileys, your comment isn't in the least bit amusing.

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