guybuys Posted May 6, 2005 Posted May 6, 2005 Hello, Please inform me of the status of http://www.guybuys.com. It was suggested in the following category: http://www.dmoz.com/Shopping/Sports/Theme_Merchandise/ on 10/21/2004. Thank you.
guybuys Posted May 7, 2005 Author Posted May 7, 2005 Advice Thank you for the info. Can you tell me why it was declined, or give me advice anything I should do different the next time it is submitted?
oneeye Posted May 7, 2005 Posted May 7, 2005 I am afraid we are unable to provide detailed information as to why a site is declined but I can give you advice on resubmitting - please don't, you are wasting your time, the one piece of information I can give you is that sites of this nature are incompatible with our listing policies. Sorry.
Meta hutcheson Posted May 8, 2005 Meta Posted May 8, 2005 Please don't submit again. I agree that (so far as I can tell) the site is intrinsically ineligible for listing.
guybuys Posted May 9, 2005 Author Posted May 9, 2005 Question Thanks for the advice. I will not submit it again since it is ineligible. I am still not quite sure why it is ineligible. I do not see much difference between http://www.GuyBuys.com and the other sites listed in this caegory. Is it because we sell some non-sports related items? Also, is GuyBuys.com ineligible for all of DMOZ, or only this particular category? Thank you for your time.
Meta hutcheson Posted May 9, 2005 Meta Posted May 9, 2005 (1) No, it's a matter of "in the editor's viewpoint, there was no unique content". "Content" to us means something different than it would to an advertiser -- it's about information, not advertising (Some writing, but not all, can be said to serve both purposes. You may be looking at the advertising component of the other sites -- while the editor skipped over that and found some valuable tidbit of information somewhere. Or we might have made mistakes -- that happens too.) And "Unique" doesn't mean you wrote it yourself, it means that a surfer couldn't find the same information (perhaps in different words) somewhere else on the internet. (2) And that's an "all of DMOZ." If the editor had thought it was eligible for another category, he'd have moved it there to be reviewed there. From our perspective, if someone finds us a good site, we're not going to throw his helpful hint away just because he didn't find the right category. This seems obvious to us, but I understand it's not the way Yahoo! works, so it's worth mentioning. And thanks muchly for your understanding.
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