I cannot really complain. *All* of my entries have been accepted, generally it took from 3 to 6 months. But then, all of our sites have "valuable content", so to speak.

Some of our descriptions have been altered, though, mostly to the bad. There seems to be a policy to "equalize" the texts, which in some cases lead to totally weak descriptions, bordering on irrelevance. Honi soit qui mal y pense ... (cbp, I am aware of the fact that one should not use merketeer language. We dont, we just describe what the site has to offer, in plain terms.)
But descriptions like "The company presents itself and its services" (how descriptive!) or "Hotel XXXX: The site presents their gastronomical offerings" (plain wrong in that case) - what kind of "ODP-diploma" do you need to crank out such rubbish? HIGH STANDARD? Is there any "quality control" at ODP?

ODP boasts of the "high standards" an applicant has to show before he becomes an editor. Question is, what happens to all those "high standard editors"? Do they get brainwashed or what? No other way to explain some of the listings. *If* the editors add only sites with valuable content, then why do they take the trouble to not show this in the descriptions, by all means?

As I said, in general I really cant complain. And I noticed that most of the descriptions have been updated recently, which was overdue. Good work.

I fully understand the intentions of ODP, but if you give yourself such high goals, you have to live up to the expectations to some degree. Seen through the eye of a user, not a webmaster. CBP stated that ODP is adding 2000+ sites a day (or was it month? correct me) ... I say: better add only 200+ but edit them with the often-quoted "high quality".

Alex