old_crone Posted September 3, 2002 Posted September 3, 2002 Has anyone really looked at the YRA site? Half of it is under construction and has been since Feb. 2001.
Guest Posted September 3, 2002 Posted September 3, 2002 After having carefully listened to the reasons exposed in this thread by tonyperry, and following extensive review of the site, a bit of investigation, and discussion among editors, we decided that this site can be listed. The site http://www.term-life-insurance-protection.co.uk/ actually falls under the "selling multiple products from multiple vendors, offering a pricing benefit to be gained by using that site" and the products/services offered aren't already offered in the parent company's (YRA) site. That is, we have here two companies, parent and subsidiary, sharing the same office as clearly stated in their pages (the relationships between TLIP and YRA are not "hidden", as it is in most doorway-like, lead generating sites, btw), but dedicated to two different "branches" in the insurance field. Different sites for different products/services, with no apparent overlap, thus serving the final user with different (whereas minimum -- this is really a borderline case) content. I have therefore changed the URL of the submission back to term-life-insurance-protection.co.uk, and the site is now listed in the category. For future reference, please notice that this doesnn't mean that any company can put online multiple duly optimized lead-generators focusing on every single product/service produced or resold by said company, and pretend to get multiple separate listings. Again, we do care about the final user (the surfer), and the usefulness and uniqueness of the information provided on a Website.
Guest tonyperry Posted September 11, 2002 Posted September 11, 2002 Sorry I haven't responded to your post for a week, but my wife has given birth to a beautiful baby girl and that has kept me very busy! I would like to thank the ODP community for giving me the chance to debate the issues and put our side of the case, the sign of a truly democratic organisation. I note that it has been suggested that this kind of debate shouldn't take place within the forum. I think that would be a bad idea as it would seem (from reading the postings) that a great many people (including myself) have learnt a lot about the ODP guidelines and have come away with a clearer understanding of them. If this kind of debate wasnt allowed within the forum it would have 3 negative effects. (1) Other editors wouldnt learn from the debate (2) It may appear to some that the ODP and /or the editor concerned had something to hide and (3) Whether we all like it or not there is always going to be some editors who allow their personal feelings and opinions to influence their thinking and decisions and there wouldnt be anyone to counter this kind of behaviour. We all need to learn and understand each other and a public forum is the right place to enhance this, not a private discussion between 2 and behind closed doors! My best regards to you all on this sad day. Tony Perry
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