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Alfred Molon

2007-03-17, 7:17 am

I've submitted the China photo gallery at
http://www.molon.de/galleries/China/
three times over the past two years to DMOZ to this category:
Top: Regional: Asia: China: Maps and Views: Photos
at
http://www.dmoz.org/Regional/Asia/C...d_Views/Photos/

The category matches, and with over 1700 photos mine probably is the
largest and most comprehensive China photo gallery in the web. So it's a
bit hard to understand why it does not get listed.

I even emailed the editor of the category and got no reply.

In the past you could ask about the status of your submission in the
DMOZ forum at http://www.resource-zone.com/forum/
But now not anymore. They have closed the forum section. Now, if
somebody dares to ask about his submission he/she gets an unfriendly
reply. Sigh...
--

Alfred Molon
http://www.molon.de - Photos of Asia, Africa and Europe

Fat Sam

2007-03-17, 7:17 am

Alfred Molon wrote:
> I've submitted the China photo gallery at
> http://www.molon.de/galleries/China/
> three times over the past two years to DMOZ to this category:
> Top: Regional: Asia: China: Maps and Views: Photos
> at
> http://www.dmoz.org/Regional/Asia/C...d_Views/Photos/
>
> The category matches, and with over 1700 photos mine probably is the
> largest and most comprehensive China photo gallery in the web. So
> it's a bit hard to understand why it does not get listed.
>
> I even emailed the editor of the category and got no reply.
>
> In the past you could ask about the status of your submission in the
> DMOZ forum at http://www.resource-zone.com/forum/
> But now not anymore. They have closed the forum section. Now, if
> somebody dares to ask about his submission he/she gets an unfriendly
> reply. Sigh...

Sadly, it seems that nowadays, DMOZ is run by a bunch of monkeys with
haircuts

Auggie

2007-03-17, 7:22 pm

"Alfred Molon" <alfred_molonCANCEL@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.2065d2f3a32f5d5b98b395@news.supernews.com...
> I've submitted the China photo gallery at
> http://www.molon.de/galleries/China/
> three times over the past two years to DMOZ to this category:
> Top: Regional: Asia: China: Maps and Views: Photos
> at
> http://www.dmoz.org/Regional/Asia/C...d_Views/Photos/
>
> The category matches, and with over 1700 photos mine probably is the
> largest and most comprehensive China photo gallery in the web. So it's a
> bit hard to understand why it does not get listed.

Not being listed has nothing to do with your site.

For years DMOZ has been just a big piece of crap stinking up the internet,
run by incompetant rubes and monitored by mostly lazy XXX editors.

Matt Probert

2007-03-17, 7:22 pm

On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 10:18:46 GMT, "Fat Sam"
<samandjanetknox@tessco.net> wrote:

>Sadly, it seems that nowadays, DMOZ is run by a bunch of monkeys with
>haircuts
>

Our government ministers moon-lighting again, are they?

Matt

--
Documenting the banal to the bizarre
http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com

Otto de Voogd

2007-03-20, 11:18 pm

On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 10:28:02 +0100, Alfred Molon wrote:

> I've submitted the China photo gallery at
> http://www.molon.de/galleries/China/
> three times over the past two years to DMOZ to this category: Top:
> Regional: Asia: China: Maps and Views: Photos at
> http://www.dmoz.org/Regional/Asia/C...d_Views/Photos/
>
> The category matches, and with over 1700 photos mine probably is the
> largest and most comprehensive China photo gallery in the web. So it's a
> bit hard to understand why it does not get listed.
>
> I even emailed the editor of the category and got no reply.
>
> In the past you could ask about the status of your submission in the
> DMOZ forum at http://www.resource-zone.com/forum/ But now not anymore.
> They have closed the forum section. Now, if somebody dares to ask about
> his submission he/she gets an unfriendly reply. Sigh...

Your site (molon.de) is listed 12 times on DMOZ:
http://search.dmoz.org/cgi-bin/search?search=molon.de

That's more than most people can say.

--
Otto de Voogd
http://www.7is7.com/ - My Projects
http://www.StatEye.com/ - Website Statistics

Alfred Molon

2007-03-21, 4:19 am

In article <pan.2007.03.21.00.03.51@yahoo.com>, ottodv@yahoo.com says...
> On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 10:28:02 +0100, Alfred Molon wrote:
>
>
> Your site (molon.de) is listed 12 times on DMOZ:
> http://search.dmoz.org/cgi-bin/search?search=molon.de
>
> That's more than most people can say.

That is highly irrelevant and completely misses the point.

The China photo gallery, with over 1700 photos, is not listed in the
Regional: Asia: China: Maps and Views: Photos category.

You are building a directory of the web, and you list relevant sites for
each category. Somebody who is searching for photos of China will look
for them in the Regional: Asia: China: Maps and Views: Photos category
and will not find the China photo gallery. That is the point.

On the other hand starting from the generic travel photo galleries
category to find photos of China would be too time consuming.

Or should I reserve a multitude of domain names and place my photo
galleries each in a different domain? Would you then check if each site
belonged to the same person, because each individual person is not
allowed to have too many entries in DMOZ?
--

Alfred Molon
http://www.molon.de - Photos of Asia, Africa and Europe

dmozeditor@somesite.info

2007-03-21, 7:22 pm

On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 08:21:26 +0100, Alfred Molon
<alfred_molonCANCEL@yahoo.com> wrote:

>That is highly irrelevant and completely misses the point.
>
No it is very relevant as DMOZ clearly prohibits people from
suggesting deeplinks and sites related to already listed sites.

"Multiple submissions of the same or related sites may result in the
exclusion and/or deletion of those and all affiliated sites."

A site cabn be listed more than once and deeplinks vcan be listed.
But only because an editor see a benefit for DMOZ and its users to do
so. People are not allowed to suggest a site to several categories or
to suggest deeplinks.

Please stop suggesting deeplinks of your site as this might result in
a ban and in extreme cases removal of all sites you are related with.

Alfred Molon

2007-03-22, 7:23 pm

In article <fs23035vkv5qfblt74vr0vqbjmnp37f07o@4ax.com>,
dmozeditor@somesite.info says...
> On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 08:21:26 +0100, Alfred Molon
> <alfred_molonCANCEL@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> No it is very relevant as DMOZ clearly prohibits people from
> suggesting deeplinks and sites related to already listed sites.
>
> "Multiple submissions of the same or related sites may result in the
> exclusion and/or deletion of those and all affiliated sites."
>
> A site cabn be listed more than once and deeplinks vcan be listed.
> But only because an editor see a benefit for DMOZ and its users to do
> so. People are not allowed to suggest a site to several categories or
> to suggest deeplinks.
>
> Please stop suggesting deeplinks of your site as this might result in
> a ban and in extreme cases removal of all sites you are related with.

Dear DMOZ editor,

this site has 10000 deeplinks listed in DMOZ:
http://search.dmoz.org/cgi-bin/search?search=topix.net

Compared to that my 13 links are peanuts.

The guidelines of DMOZ allow deeplinks:
http://dmoz.org/newsletter/2001May/deeplink.html

In any case, the China photo gallery is now listed in DMOZ :-)
--

Alfred Molon
http://www.molon.de - Photos of Asia, Africa and Europe

Charles Sweeney

2007-03-24, 7:20 pm

Alfred Molon wrote

> I've submitted the China photo gallery at
> http://www.molon.de/galleries/China/
> three times over the past two years to DMOZ to this category:
> Top: Regional: Asia: China: Maps and Views: Photos
> at
> http://www.dmoz.org/Regional/Asia/C...d_Views/Photos/
>
> The category matches, and with over 1700 photos mine probably is the
> largest and most comprehensive China photo gallery in the web. So it's a
> bit hard to understand why it does not get listed.

It doesn't get listed because DMOZ died about seven years ago.

--
Charles Sweeney
http://CharlesSweeney.com

Charles Sweeney

2007-03-24, 7:20 pm

Alfred Molon wrote

> In article <pan.2007.03.21.00.03.51@yahoo.com>, ottodv@yahoo.com
> says...
>
> That is highly irrelevant and completely misses the point.
>
> The China photo gallery, with over 1700 photos, is not listed in the
> Regional: Asia: China: Maps and Views: Photos category.
>
> You are building a directory of the web, and you list relevant sites
> for each category. Somebody who is searching for photos of China will
> look for them in the Regional: Asia: China: Maps and Views: Photos
> category and will not find the China photo gallery. That is the point.
>
> On the other hand starting from the generic travel photo galleries
> category to find photos of China would be too time consuming.
>
> Or should I reserve a multitude of domain names and place my photo
> galleries each in a different domain? Would you then check if each
> site belonged to the same person, because each individual person is
> not allowed to have too many entries in DMOZ?

You are making the mistake, Alfred, of applying logic to DMOZ.

--
Charles Sweeney
http://CharlesSweeney.com

Alfred Molon

2007-03-24, 7:20 pm

In article <Xns98FDE0AC3C647mecharlessweeneycom@130.133.1.4>,
me@charlessweeney.com says...

> It doesn't get listed because DMOZ died about seven years ago.

It's alive, Charles and in the meantime the China photo gallery got
listed.
--

Alfred Molon
http://www.molon.de - Photos of Asia, Africa and Europe

Charles Sweeney

2007-03-24, 11:17 pm

Alfred Molon wrote

> In article <Xns98FDE0AC3C647mecharlessweeneycom@130.133.1.4>,
> me@charlessweeney.com says...
>
>
> It's alive, Charles and in the meantime the China photo gallery got
> listed.

Congratulations! Miracles do happen from time to time.

--
Charles Sweeney
http://CharlesSweeney.com