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Originally Posted by Forsh
Well I submitted to them. Will they contact me if/when it is ever listed?
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No, you won't be contacted.
Not when it it listed. Not when it is rejected.
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Originally Posted by webzenstar
In my personal view, DMOZ was the first conceptual attempt at a somewhat democratic link building with a kind of "wiki-like" approach.
Because of...
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> Poor customer service;
As webmasters or other people suggesting website are not our customers we don't give them any service at all. Not poor and not good. None at all.
> Biased review process;
Yes, we only list websites that fit within our guidelines. The rest will be rejected.
> Corrupt editors;
We know that there have been some corrupt editors in the past. We are sure there will be some corrupt editors in the future. And there might even be a few corrupt editors at this moment. We will do everything to find these people and correct their actions. And we hope that people outside DMOZ will report them if they notice any.
> Careless admins;
All editors (atleast the ones I know) care a lot about DMOZ. And that incudes the admins.
> Submission backlog.
For DMOZ there is no backlog at all. There is just a big pool of suggested (not submitted) websites which we can use (not must use) to find sites to include in the directory. Eventualy we will look at all suggested websites. We just don't know when that will be done, at to be honest we don't care when a suggested site will be reviewed. We only care about the directory as a whole. Is it usefull for our customers (the websites using our data and the people using DMOZ or any of the data copies to find information). In our opinion it still is usefull for them.