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Originally Posted by brizzie
daemon61, nice escape! LOL.
You could have avoided any negative labels IMO by being up front in the first place. You did say you were trying to get your site listed, not an existing listing changed. ;-)
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Well, maybe my english is bad or I dont know how to explain things:)
But the problem is much bigger than what you said now. The thing is there are 2 sites -
www.yacht-base.com and
www.marina-base.com . yacht-base is optimized version of marina-base with more quality content. Problem is that marina-base is listed in the category under the name yacht-base, while yacht-base is our primary site and marina-base is soon going to become totally new site about marinas. then we will have two sites that are different and full of quality content. Unfortunately, now we have two almost identical sites - with the wrong one being listed in the wrong place. That should sum up the whole story, i hope:) So then, i have a problem.
Whats the best way to settle this? My boss is worried that he will lose listing of marina base and a chance to list yacht-base, if we report this.
Oh yes, plus there is a landing page also in that category. So it is violation of DMOZ rules, but its not my fault, and I want to change that. Not the fault, but listings:)
Should I try and ask about this in forum? I would like to e-mail editor of that category, but i cant since there is no one. I know that category has parent editor, but that doesnt mean a thing to me when i cant reach any of them and explain situation in which ive found myself.
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Originally Posted by brizzie
Perhaps DMOZ editors use spam and spammer in a slightly different way which may confuse.
Those who keep submitting their one URL to the same category time after time have generally misunderstood or are very impatient. Anyhow they are not trying to get multiple listings of their site so whilst it wastes time and does no-one any favors mostly I would just term them multiple submitters not spammers.
Those who send their one URL to multiple categories multiple times are real pains in the butt and often they are playing the system to see if they can get more than one listing without it being noticed. Depends on the extent but they could be spammers. Again it is loads of work but tedious more than difficult.
Those who do things that appear deceptive, like sending us mirrored and cloaked URLs, or trying to pass off a set of affiliate links as their own store, etc. etc. etc. are the real bad boys. They only have to do it once but once means we must assume that they will do it over and over again, they cause more work than anything else, and sometimes they slip through the net leading to criticism that we have listed mirrors and cloaked URLs. The answer to that is to let us know via the Resource Zone (DMOZ Public Forum), not to follow suit and submit your own mirrors and cloaks. Yes, for the inordinate waste of time they cause, submit one mirror site and in my book they're a spammer - it is a practice that is deceitful, not to say extraordinarily bad banners to cause unnecessary work for unpaid volunteers.
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Finally im starting to understand editors job. It is much harder than i thought. Again, youve been very helpfull and informational, thanks!