It Made Me Laugh

[MazY]

<Looks up and wonders why he always uses Hungarian Notation for his subject titles.> Too many years of programming methinks...

Anyway, I received this e-mail today from DMOZ and I shall risk being thought of a rank amateur to share it... lol All will be revealed.

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I have added your listing to the Open Directory.

Your page at: [edited] states how experienced you are at web site marketing.

May I humbly point out... the submission for your OWN web site had no URL,
the description and the title needed modifying.

Please read the submission rules for DMOZ... on a busy night your submission
would have been deleted... out of hand!

Best regards with your online venture

[Name Edited]

So what is so funny? Well, the URL was quite firmly in place at the point of submission actually. It was either the DMOZ site or the newly download IE6 which saw fit to remove it the moment that I clicked "Submit".

As for the title and description. Well of course they would. I was trying to push things a little. So my "web site promotion" has become "search engine optimisation" (not ideal in the UK but I will settle for it.) and they modifed the title to "[Company Name] Web Designs" as opposed to "[Company Name] Web Designs and Promotion" LOL I can live with being called an idiot for that.

I suppose that I should have been a little miffed at his calling me an amateur (in a round about way) but I couldn't help (a) returning a thanks to him for even writing back to me at all and (b) just laughing at the absurdity of it.

Note it was a submission to a second category in order to see if I could improve on my previous highly edited entry, that was all. That is what makes it all the more absurd.

I think I shall wait to see how my today's Looksmart listing got edited before I declare myself an amateur and train as a butcher or other trade instead!

Cheered my day up no end. :D

[ihelpyou]

Please read the submission rules for DMOZ... on a busy night your submission
would have been deleted... out of hand!
They have many young kids as editors who truly have no clue. Of course we wish to have more words in the titles. It is only because of the significance that the partners put upon the title. Duh ODP?

It is also because of all the fake business names sites come up with to use only with the ODP. duh ODP?

[MazY]

What had me scratching my head was the fact that the previous editor totally the ignored the "search engine" side of my business in the edits.

This one, who I feel sure felt a momentary feeling of power as he scorned me, included it, as I had wanted. So who is really the dumb one? Makes me think for sure....

Still, I was impressed at (a) the speed of submission and (b) that he wrote back to let me know it had been included. (Though I doubt that he would if it were not for the fact he wanted to question my abilities.)

[Advisor]

If the submission had no URL, then how could he have added the site? Sounds very fishy to me!

Jill

[MazY]

LOL - I never even stopped to think about that!

I suppose he could have gone by the extension on the e-mail? maz@companyname.co.uk?

I wouldn't but it's the only other way. In that scenario though, you would have thought that someone would just delete it wouldn't you?

I still think he is a fundamentally nice guy who just wanted to pour some hot water on someone who he felt had ideas above his station. As I say, I can live with it. I got what I wanted (almost).

[Advisor]

Somehow, I bet that the ODP add url page does not actually allow you to submit without a URL. I would imagine an error would pop up or something. At least it should...

Jill

[MazY]

Would have thought so.

I distinctly remember that after I submitted, I clicked "back" and all the information was still in there, except the URL which I thought was odd. But I have fallen for this before, where ya look at it and think "oh, I better submit it again then". Then you do that and the same thing happens. You end really cheesing the recipient off with one-hundred submissions as you send the same thing over and over! lol

As it wasn't paramount and really an exercise in "I wonder if...", I let it be and elected to wait and see.

[usbnuts]

Well, at least, you get your listing.

[JuniorHarris]

Seems as if it would have been easier to delete the submission. But hey some people will go out of their way when offering "advice"!~ ;)

Congrats on getting the page listed!

[newriver]

You mean you don't get acceptance letters everytime you get a site listed?
:D

[JuniorHarris]

I suppose some editors may be too busy, especially if they are processing sub-second submissions!~ ;)

[nitewing2]

I didn't get a notice that my site was listed...either time...but I did get a form letter denying me the opportunity to become an editor for them...AND this was not even signed!!!


Nitewing2