Feb 27th 2009 2:00PM
Have Questions About DMOZ? Let us know!
Hi Everyone,
One of the things we want to accomplish with this blog is to improve transparency and open the lines of communications to all of the groups who care about and support DMOZ.
With that in mind, we asked editors to submit questions to us and then posted a selection of questions (with our responses) in our Ask AOL post last October. Now we'd like to provide similar opportunities to both the webmaster community and to the general public. What do you want from the ODP as a user? As a webmaster? What would make the directory easier to use? A resource that better suits your needs? Easier to navigate? What are we currently doing well that you'd like to see us do more of in the future?
While we can't address every question that we receive, your input gives us valuable insights on what our stakeholders view as interesting, frustrating, valuable, etc. We'll pick a sample of questions from each group and answer these on the blog in a couple of weeks.
Do you have something you'd like to ask? If you are a webmaster, you can email us here. If you are a member of the public, you can email us here. Please keep in mind that we can't respond to individual questions (for example, status requests for URL suggestions) and that we can only consider questions for the post that are submitted via the above email links.
We'll be accepting your questions through next Friday, March 6. We look forward to hearing from you!
***The submission period is now closed and we are no longer accepting new questions. Thanks to everyone who participated! Responses will be shared in a future post.***
Emily
One of the things we want to accomplish with this blog is to improve transparency and open the lines of communications to all of the groups who care about and support DMOZ.
With that in mind, we asked editors to submit questions to us and then posted a selection of questions (with our responses) in our Ask AOL post last October. Now we'd like to provide similar opportunities to both the webmaster community and to the general public. What do you want from the ODP as a user? As a webmaster? What would make the directory easier to use? A resource that better suits your needs? Easier to navigate? What are we currently doing well that you'd like to see us do more of in the future?
While we can't address every question that we receive, your input gives us valuable insights on what our stakeholders view as interesting, frustrating, valuable, etc. We'll pick a sample of questions from each group and answer these on the blog in a couple of weeks.
Do you have something you'd like to ask? If you are a webmaster, you can email us here. If you are a member of the public, you can email us here. Please keep in mind that we can't respond to individual questions (for example, status requests for URL suggestions) and that we can only consider questions for the post that are submitted via the above email links.
We'll be accepting your questions through next Friday, March 6. We look forward to hearing from you!
***The submission period is now closed and we are no longer accepting new questions. Thanks to everyone who participated! Responses will be shared in a future post.***
Emily
41. I fully renewed my site and have checked that all the texts are original. Picked up a right category - and nothing happening unfortunately
Posted at 7:55AM on May 14th 2009 by aaa22
42. Well I want to understand why I have not been included in DMOZ because I submitted my website about 3 or 4 months ago. But when I see that there are others who submitted theiir site over a year ago, I can't help but think that my site is insignificant to DMOZ at this four month point.
Since losing my job, I actually signed up to be a volunteer editor, but according to the email I received, my answer for why I wanted to be an editor was the wrong answer.
I think DMOZ is doing a great job, but you have more work than people. It looks like my hands are tied. As an editor and as a site owner.
I hope things get better.
Posted at 5:32PM on May 17th 2009 by Kim