DMOZ appears to have died

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Discontinuation of site status checks

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Following discussion by, and consensus of Moderators and Administrators of this forum, we have chosen to discontinue site status checks effective May 21, 2005. Closure of the existing Site Submission Status forums will happen by this date, and we will not be accepting any new status check threads after this time. The submission status forums will be archived.

There were a number of factors involved in making this decision, but probably the biggest was that these requests were always beyond the mission of this forum. The original mandate of this forum was to put a better light on the ODP by allowing the public to interact directly with the editors. At some point the submission status requests seem to have taken over and almost become the focus.

Gee, maybe if the volunteers actually got around to submitting sites which is what they volunteered to do, the submission status requests would not have gone overboard.

We are talking forum here not DMOZ itself that is?

Otherwise that is a misleading title you have got going here linknz

If you discuss something that is broken then the discussion will centre on the fact that the system is not working and it will undoubtedly end up focussed the the largest problem because that is the one that affects most people.

It was always going to end up like this. DMOZ was dead prior to Google ressurecting it and the system isnt geared for the popularity it acquired once the spotlight fell on it.

It isn't geared to webmasters at all. It consists of a large number of people (currently 8500 active logins) who find categories that they want to build, and then, umm, build them.

As has been often repeated, categories that are already well represented with a useful cross-section of sites and/or are magnets for spam submissions get LESS attention than under represented categories for niche topics.

There is no "system" to the ODP. There is no-one telling the editors which category to edit next, or which site to focus on next. Instead, each editor, as a volunteer, builds the categories that they find interesting, and which in their individual opinions need more work, and: if none of the 8500 editors are working in the category that YOU are interested in, and no-one out of the 2 billion people who have internet access has applied to edit it, then it does not get edited.

That's it really. There are 590 000 categories; and it is quite unlikely I'll ever edit anywhere near any that YOU are interested in.