Listing

[Hosterware]

Hi,

 

can anyoune help with this/

 

Are listing has suddenly disappeared, without notice. Please explain, this is highly irregular.

 

http://www.dmoz.org/cgi-bin/add.cgi?where=Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom

/Bus

iness_and_Economy/Computers_and_Internet/Internet/Web_Hosting

 

we are still in http://dir.google.com

 

Thank you

 

Jack Smith

 

<Email Removed for member protection>

[photofox]

Listings are added and removed all the time, it is not uncommon for a site to be removed after being listed for many years. Reasons for removal include:

(1)Site no longer functions

(2)No longer eligible for listing per the Guidelines

(3)Site has been moved to another (more suitable) category for review.

[Hosterware]

All three reasons are none applicable.

 

We are listed in <Google Directory>

and should be still in DMOZ.

 

This is not very professional. Jack Smith Hosterware Technical Director MSc IT UCL, UK

[hutcheson]

There is never any notice to anyone of editing actions -- whether adding, removing, moving, or changine a listing. But everyone can always see the results.

 

Every user always ("regularly") gets exactly the same information. We call that exactly fair (as well as exactly regular).

 

There's another extremely important point, and it gets to the heart of what we call "integrity". This is a directory by and for surfers. Website owners are not a privileged class, with command or veto authority over what work is done. Until demonstrated otherwise, they get the benefit of the doubt (we assume they might also sometimes be surfers, and therefore can participate in the work and benefits in all the ways surfers might.)

[hutcheson]

(added in response to second post)

 

Another extremely important facet of "integrity" -- we're not professionals, and we don't allow professionals in the room. This is strictly, literally, an amateur project--done "for love of it", not for money, says the dictionary.

 

Professionals are fine in their place--I have a profession, as do many other volunteers. But at the ODP, I'm a volunteer and an amateur. In the ODP, as in lovemaking, "professional" is a mortal insult.

[Hosterware]

So aside from that, which is beyond the scope of understanding. One should, accept that suddenly a website, would disappear. Fair enough, will pass the info onto all our users base.

[makrhod]

One should, accept that suddenly a website, would disappear.

Of course, because no site is guaranteed a permanent listing, but it will be for one of the reasons photofox has already given you.

 

And hutcheson's point is that it's irrelevant whether or not you think such actions are "professional". We are all volunteers, and DMOZ is not a listing "service".

[The Old Sarge]

So aside from that, which is beyond the scope of understanding. ...

 

Beyond the scope of understanding for whom? I understood it perfectly, as I'm sure many other people did.

[Hosterware]

Thankyou very much for your assistance.

 

Jack, MCSE