ANVILPOINT Posted November 3, 2004 Posted November 3, 2004 I have been submitting my site Clipperlight.Com for several months and don't seem to be getting any where although I am now listed elseware, as a subscriber to AOL and an advertiser with google, I can't understand it. I have also offered to act as an editor. Is there any way I can find out what the position is regarding my site, as it is very important to me to be listed. Regards ANVILPOINT
gboisseau Posted November 3, 2004 Posted November 3, 2004 We need a clickable link to the category you submitted the site to.
ANVILPOINT Posted November 3, 2004 Author Posted November 3, 2004 What do you mean by a clickable link, how do I do that Regards Anvilpoint
coconutz Posted November 3, 2004 Posted November 3, 2004 Please see ATTENTION - Forum Guidelines - READ BEFORE POSTING for information on how to format your post: FORMATTING YOUR REQUEST: Always include the URL of the site you're asking about in the title of the thread. In the body of your post, include clickable links to 1. your site and 2. the dmoz.org category or categories you submitted to. The simplest way to do this is to copy and paste the URL of the ODP category. Please note that all category links must point to pages on dmoz.org, and nowhere else. Example: Please let me know the status of http://www.mysite.com, submitted to 1. http://dmoz.org/Business/Mining_and...and_Switchgear/ 2. http://dmoz.org/Regional/North_Amer...ss_and_Economy/ Also: WHEN TO POST: Wait at least one month after you last (not first time) submitted your site to start a thread here asking about its status.
ANVILPOINT Posted November 3, 2004 Author Posted November 3, 2004 Status Enquiry Thanks Please let me know the status of my web site http://www.clipperlight.com,submitted to 1.http://dmoz.org/cgi-bin/add.cgi?where=Shopping/Home_and_Garden/Accessories/Nautical Many thanks Anvilpoint
bobrat Posted November 3, 2004 Posted November 3, 2004 Fixing the link to be correct http://dmoz.org/Shopping/Home_and_Garden/Accessories/Nautical/
ANVILPOINT Posted November 3, 2004 Author Posted November 3, 2004 Sorry just getting th hang of it Status please of my site http://www.clipperlight.com, submitted to the following http://dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/Business_and_Economy/Shopping/Antiques_and_Collectibles/ Regards Anvilpoint
bobrat Posted November 3, 2004 Posted November 3, 2004 It would help if after you make a post you check if the links you enter actually works, by clicking on them yourself, otherwise this question is never going to get answered. The site URL you entered does not work. Also, I don't understand why the category you are asking about changed from one post to the next.
miromulus Posted November 3, 2004 Posted November 3, 2004 Bobrat, maybe it was a problem with your browser. The link works. Actualy, only the last link works
bobrat Posted November 3, 2004 Posted November 3, 2004 Weel I first used the link in post#5 which for sure does not work, then I used the other one a couple of time and I didn't work when I posted, but I agree it works now.
ANVILPOINT Posted November 3, 2004 Author Posted November 3, 2004 I have checked both URL's and they both work OK. The reason there are two submisson, is that I have applied to both over time. Can anyone tell me who will inform me as to the situation with my site. Regards Anvile point
ANVILPOINT Posted November 4, 2004 Author Posted November 4, 2004 Will some please answer my question regarding my site Regards Anvilpoint
ANVILPOINT Posted November 7, 2004 Author Posted November 7, 2004 Status please Please let me know the status of http://www.clipperlight.com submitted to http://dmoz.org/Shopping/Home_and_Garden/Accessories/Nautical/ Can anyone help me with this enquiry please Regards Anvilpoint
sole Posted November 8, 2004 Posted November 8, 2004 The submission was received and is awaiting review.
ANVILPOINT Posted November 29, 2004 Author Posted November 29, 2004 Progress with my site review Can you tell me how my site review is going please, many thanks Anvilpoint
jimnoble Posted November 29, 2004 Posted November 29, 2004 Please bump this thread any time from 7th May 2005 and we will. We require that subsequent status requests are only made after 6 months.
ANVILPOINT Posted May 9, 2005 Author Posted May 9, 2005 wHY O WHY I applied for registration for my site over a year ago at http://dmoz.org/Shopping/Home_and_G...ories/Nautical/ and have heard nothing. I was told not to ask about registration for six months, which I have done, will some one please tell me why I am not yet on the Open directory and if not why. Regards Anvilpoint
Meta hutcheson Posted May 9, 2005 Meta Posted May 9, 2005 A submittal about seven months old is waiting there for review. There's also (apparently) a submittal waiting somewhere in http://dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/Business_and_Economy/Shopping and a fair amount of editor time has been wasted mole-whacking redundant submittals and rerouting missubmittals. (There may be other duplicates that haven't yet been weeded out: also, non-duplicates may be accidentally deleted. JUST STOP SUBMITTING, OK? IT DOESN'T HELP ANYONE! We never know when one of the volunteers will choose to work in a category, or how they will choose which sites to review first. So the "why" question is always unanswerable.
ANVILPOINT Posted May 17, 2005 Author Posted May 17, 2005 Site review progress I have not submitted any information for the last six months and waited as requested for six months before re-accessing this thread. I did submit to two different catagories, which I understand is permissible. If the problem is not having enough volunteer editors to do the job, why when I vounteered to act as an editor was the request totally ignored? I have written and run serveral internet companies and am a member of the local government IEG partnership, with impecable references. Because the open directory is used by such as Google and AOL in their search procedure, and may mean the difference between an internet company being successful or failing. you have a moral duty to make sure the thing is run fairly and efficiently. That does not mean taking over twelve months to review a site, when offers of help are there and not taken up. Will you please get your act together and accept help when it is offered. Regards. Anvil
Meta hutcheson Posted May 17, 2005 Meta Posted May 17, 2005 If a business depends on the ODP to succeed, it has already failed, and its owner has failed to notice. It is extremely important for the integrity of the ODP that it retain its current approach of recognizing success, rather than arrogating to itself the right to confer it. We're always looking for editors who understand and sympathise with the ODP approach.
spectregunner Posted May 18, 2005 Posted May 18, 2005 Will you please get your act together and accept help when it is offered. I have absolutely nothing to do with the approval or disapproval of editor applications, and it is probably a good thing that I do not, because I would have a very hard time imagining that anyone professing that type of attitude could become a successful part of the editing community.
ANVILPOINT Posted May 18, 2005 Author Posted May 18, 2005 You have missed the point, it is not about failing or succeeding, but about a fair and even playing field ie. If a site gets a quick acceptance in the directory it had an immediate advantage over one the perhaps takes twelve or more months to be reviewed.I am not trying to be rude or offensive, but do take offence at the content of the last poster, so unnessesary to be so rude, politeness costs nothing. I suppose I have no option but to carry on waiting to be reveiwed. Regards Anvil Anvil
Alucard Posted May 18, 2005 Posted May 18, 2005 Anvil, The tone of responses rather echoed the emotions felt when being told what an person's "moral duties" need to be and to "get their act together". As someone said recently: "politeness costs nothing". Do you have any evidence that your application to edit was "ignored"? I have heard about applications not being received, and applications being rejected, and applications that are still waiting to be reviewed, but never of one that was ignored. I suggest to ask over in the Application Status forum, if you are interested. You made the comment about how a listing in the ODP "may mean the difference between an internet company being successful or failing" and then you say that "it is not about failing or succeeding". I'm sorry, but I am confused. What point are you trying to make with these statements? If it's that you are not happy that your site has not been reviewed yet, then I can certainly understand your point of view. I was in a similar situation before I became an editor. But the nature of the beast that is the ODP is that it can take a LONG time to get a site reviewed (and that can mean several years). There are many discussions elsewhere about why this is, and whether it is a good thing or a bad thing, but the fact is that this is the way the world of the ODP is. The only way to change this is get have more editors who get the Vision of what the ODP is about. It's not an easy one to "get", and most people don't really want to get it, especially when it clashes violently with their own self-interest. If you can get it, then I would love to welcome you to the ranks of ODP editor.
spectregunner Posted May 18, 2005 Posted May 18, 2005 No, I'm afraid that you have missed the point. The point I was making was simple and in direct response to the tone of your postings. You lectured us, telling us that we do not have our act together, that we somehow violated your sense of fairness by not doing something we never promised to do. You presumed to try and define for us what our moral responsibility is, and complained that we did not accept you into our editing community. I simply point out that, in my opinion, I did not think (based on the above) that you would be a good fit in our editorial community. If that offends you. I'm sorry.
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