we submitted www.viteyes.com many times over the past couple years. Can't find any reason why we have never been added. We are a very reuptable company. Just submitted again, hopefully this time we will be added.
Thanks!
Thanks!
www.viteyes.com
- Thread starter mtonsi
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Please let us know the status of http://www.viteyes.com, submitted to
1. http://dmoz.org/Shopping/Health/Nutrition/Supplements/Vitamins_and_Minerals/
Thank You.
1. http://dmoz.org/Shopping/Health/Nutrition/Supplements/Vitamins_and_Minerals/
Thank You.
compostannie
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The biggest problem I see with your site submissions is that they are awaiting review in several categories and have been deleted from a lot more. That's in direct violation of our guidelines.
Please be patient and stop submitting your site. An editor will need to take the time to sort through all the extra submissions and determine in which category the site actually belongs. As volunteers, no editor is going to be told they have to sort through the mess you've created. You'll have to wait until someone comes along who feels like taking on the challenge.
To answer your other question, no, there is nothing preventing your competition from becoming an editor other than a lack of willingness. There's nothing to prevent you from becoming an editor either. But alas, we have no editor who is dedicated to that particular category so it must rely on the editing community as a whole.
Please be patient and stop submitting your site. An editor will need to take the time to sort through all the extra submissions and determine in which category the site actually belongs. As volunteers, no editor is going to be told they have to sort through the mess you've created. You'll have to wait until someone comes along who feels like taking on the challenge.
To answer your other question, no, there is nothing preventing your competition from becoming an editor other than a lack of willingness. There's nothing to prevent you from becoming an editor either. But alas, we have no editor who is dedicated to that particular category so it must rely on the editing community as a whole.
Well, that category is a big affiliate-spam target. We probably wouldn't accept a new editor in it....it's one of those places where submittals wait for someone who is primarily interesting in spotting spam -- which is probably not the thing you'd like foremost on the mind of your reviewer -- but that's reality.
compostannie said:
Per the post we were provided (see step 1 Formatting Your Request) http://resource-zone.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=396 submitting to multiple categories is acceptable.
We aren't aware of any deletions. What is a deletion? Our site was originally submitted almost 2 1/2 years ago. There is no reason for a deletion. We are a highly reputable company. Our products are clinically based on a government study recommended by thousands of Ophthalmologists to help prevent a nearly untreatable disease.
bobrat
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I'm not sure why you think that. When your submitted your site, you were asked to read and agree to this page regarding some guidelines http://www.dmoz.org/add.html
That document contains the following notes
Identify the single best category for your site. The Open Directory has an enormous array of subjects to choose from. You should submit a site to the single most relevant category. Sites submitted to inappropriate or unrelated categories may be rejected or removed.
and
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.
Since you chose to ignore those and submitted to numerous categories multiple times, editors were totally correct to delete those submissions. Consider it lucky that at this point, a copy of your site has been left and is waiting for review.
bobrat said:
Interesting. Thank you for pointing those out.
After reading the link you had posted earlier, http://resource-zone.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=396 it lead us to believe we should submit to more than one category (see the section on FORMATTING YOUR REQUEST. This section lists a request of a sites status that has more that was submitted to more than one category.
I used to work with nearly a whole company of old Netscapers. Maybe I'll give them a call...haven't heard from them in a while
Ah, the difference between "occasionally it is OK, see the guidelines for when" and "you must always invariably do this."
Yes, there are very specific circumstances under which it is permissable, even commendable to submit to two or even more categories. And yes, in these forums it is helpful to confess inappropriate submittals to multiple categories, so editors can clean them up when checking on status.
But that can't rationally be taken as blanket permission to drive through the taxonomy with an automatic shotgun. In the absence of other information, the ODP submittal policy still rules.
Yes, there are very specific circumstances under which it is permissable, even commendable to submit to two or even more categories. And yes, in these forums it is helpful to confess inappropriate submittals to multiple categories, so editors can clean them up when checking on status.
But that can't rationally be taken as blanket permission to drive through the taxonomy with an automatic shotgun. In the absence of other information, the ODP submittal policy still rules.