ekrimen Posted March 22, 2004 Posted March 22, 2004 Hi, can you please give me the status of http://www.photobird.com submitted to http://dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/On_the_Web/Web_Applications/Virtual_Disk_Drives/Photo_Sharing/ ? I submitted it in December 2003 and it hasn't been posted yet. Thank you! -- Ed
Meta nea Posted March 22, 2004 Meta Posted March 22, 2004 I can't see any submission in the category you mention; however your submission to http://dmoz.org/Shopping/Photography/Digital was moved to http://dmoz.org/Shopping/Photography/Services/Digital where it's awaiting review. Curlie Meta and kMeta editor nea
ekrimen Posted April 29, 2004 Author Posted April 29, 2004 Hi, can you please give me an updated status of http://www.photobird.com in http://dmoz.org/Shopping/Photography/Services/Digital ? It's been a month since my initial status request. Thanks! -- Ed
ekrimen Posted November 1, 2004 Author Posted November 1, 2004 Hi, Can you please give me an updated status of http://www.photobird.com in http://dmoz.org/Shopping/Photography/Services/Digital ? It's been six months since my last status request. How will I know when it's added? Do I receive an e-mail? Thanks! -- Ed
Editall/Catmv arubin Posted November 1, 2004 Editall/Catmv Posted November 1, 2004 Hi, Can you please give me an updated status of http://www.photobird.com in http://dmoz.org/Shopping/Photography/Services/Digital ? No change in status. Sorry. How will I know when it's added? You'll see in the directory. Editors have been known to E-mail a submitter, but it's very rare. You may ask again in this thread in 6 more months.
ekrimen Posted November 2, 2004 Author Posted November 2, 2004 Thank you for your reply. Is it even worth it to ask for status updates here? What could the status be other than "no update" and "it's posted", the latter which I could find out for myself? -- Ed
bobrat Posted November 2, 2004 Posted November 2, 2004 There are a number of other responses a person could get, [We've had answers like this given out in this forum] such as An editor went to review it and the site was down each time he tried, so it got removed. It was reviewed, but the site links were partly broken, and the contact page did not work, so it was not accepted in the Regional category. Your site was published last week, but your domain expired this week, and you forgot to renew it, so we removed it from the directory. Someone hacked into your site, and it is currently a porn site, we will check again in a week, and re-review it.
ekrimen Posted May 10, 2005 Author Posted May 10, 2005 Hi, can you please give me an updated status of http://www.photobird.com in http://dmoz.org/Shopping/Photography/Services/Digital ? Also, I think I might have submitted it to the wrong category. Looking at other entries, it looks like it might be better suited for http://dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/On_the_Web/Web_Applications/Photo_Sharing/ . What happens in these cases? Will the editor move it over, or is there something I can do? Finally, a suggestion: I've been reading about the volume and spam that the editors handle when reviewing sites and I'd like to suggest that the "Suggest URL" page require that the submitter confirm their submission by entering a computer-generated human-readable graphic code, similar to what other websites require when creating accounts. These graphic codes are the small images with letters and numbers that people need to enter into the form to confirm it's a person submitting the URL and not a computer script submitting the form. I'm thinking that this might help reduce the amount of spam that the editors go through and enable them to spend more time reviewing sites. Just a suggestion. Thanks! -- Ed
Editall/Catmv arubin Posted May 10, 2005 Editall/Catmv Posted May 10, 2005 No change in status. And we (I believe this is official) consider "human-readable graphic codes" unfriendly to the blind or text-based browsers, and will not consider their use.
ekrimen Posted May 10, 2005 Author Posted May 10, 2005 Hi arubin, thanks for your reply! I checked the FAQ and the forums and couldn't find an answer to this question: I think I may have submitted my site to the wrong category. Looking at other entries, it looks like it might be better suited for http://dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/.../Photo_Sharing/ . What happens in these cases? Will the editor move it over, or is there something I can do? Thanks! -- Ed
Editall/Catmv arubin Posted May 10, 2005 Editall/Catmv Posted May 10, 2005 If you're sure that's the best category for your site, and you haven't been submitting the site all over the directory, you may resubmit. A second suggestion to the correct category, even if related, is appreciated. The reviewing editor will likely move it, but quite possibly would be unable to list it in the new category. I would suggest that you place [replacing existing suggestion in Shopping/Photography/Services/Digital] following your suggested description, so the reviewing editor knows your intent. I'm not suggesting that you have been submitting the site all over the directory. This is just noting that the advice to resubmit to the best category (after reconsideration) doesn't apply if the site has been spammed all over the directory.
ekrimen Posted May 10, 2005 Author Posted May 10, 2005 Hi arubin, Thank you very much for your help! I appreciate it! As you suggest, I have resubmitted the link to the other, better category. (Yes, I had only submitted it once before.) Regarding my suggestion about requiring entry of human-readable graphic codes for submitting sites, I hope dmoz.org will consider the following: 1. to accomodate blind users, dmoz.org should use audible codes: letters and numbers recorded individually and played back in lieu of the human-readable graphic codes. 2. dmoz.org should require site submissions using graphic-based web browsers, not text-based web browsers. By setting the submission requirements to include an incredibly small number of the web-browsing population in text-based browsers and not using human-readable graphic codes, dmoz.org is making it inconvenient for visitors to find high quality websites and making it very frustrating for site submitters to get their sites posted in a reasonable amount of time, due to the amount of spam that editors need to go through. I hope these are workable solutions. Please let me know if dmoz.org would like to discuss possible solutions further. I'm only trying to help. Thanks! -- Ed
Meta hutcheson Posted May 10, 2005 Meta Posted May 10, 2005 That technique is very good for weeding out people who aren't detemined to submit -- and is even temporarily good for handling 'bots. Unfortunately, our main problems are hundreds of thousands of individual spammers, each pretty determined (each believing that the universe owes him a remunerative living, the ODP is the official payout organization, and the more obnoxious he acts, the higher the payout will be.) On the other hand, the people we WANT to be helping may not be as determined even when giving the help we want most. And finally, a large majority of the spam is not automatically detectable at all.
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