“Not only did I get rejected within hours, I didn’t even receive the courtesy of a note advising me why.”
“That is a physical impossibility unless you are suggesting they called you on the telephone!”
No, it’s not a physical impossibility. There’s a section in the form rejection for including a reason.
“It is extremely unlikely someone would get approved in that scenario since it is pretty presumptuous.”
Begging your pardon, but there’s nothing presumptuous about it at all. I’m a degreed professional with an internet marketing background, and I’m an amateur webmaster. I put quite a bit of work into filling out the application and submitting some very high-quality sample sites that had unique content.
“It’s just a form email, and maybe some dick of a meta editor should have included a reason, but so what? You just going to curl up into a ball and die?”
Please relax. I have no intention of curling up into a ball or dying. I’ve already seen my doctor and my therapist to discuss my rejection as a DMOZ editor, and the antidepressants are working out well. (j/k)
“Randy, if you would have read a bunch of the apply to be an editor resource zone forum it would have been apparent that you should have applied to a smaller category”
Thanks for sharing that forum with me. I hadn’t seen it before, and never saw a link to it on the DMOZ site. I read the guidelines on the DMOZ site thoroughly before I applied though.
“You can’t just become Pope. You gotta rise up through the ranks.”
Now this is interesting–I’d like to know exactly what DMOZ’s relationship with the Catholic Church is! (j/k again)
“Randy, if you do want to edit that category fairly and well, why don’t you apply to edit a category for your home town or area first?”
That’s not a bad idea, but I’m not sure my little old small hometown would have 2 or 3 websites devoted to it. LOL
Take ‘er easy, Classics.