“I cant help but notice that you can sit there and criticize our websites, but you cant supply your own.”
What a bizarre thing to say. LOL. The dude ASKED about his site. Please try and just have a civil discussion, okay?
Simoneaton, as I said before, I’m not an editor. As for “assist us affiliates”, DMOZ lists “web resources” that offer original, useful material (and of course a significant amount of it). Most gambling websites consist of copied content: copies of promo text from casinos, copies of wizardofodds or Mark Pilarski articles, etc. Those sites won’t get listed. Being affiliate sites is not against the rules, but that part isn’t an asset either. Affilialte ads, or any ads, are at best non-content, something to be ignored. To get listed you need original content to overwhelm the stuff that isn’t original. Sites like this one, or wizardofodds or winneronline, or oddschecker offer content that originates on the domain. You have to have a good amount of original content (that is not obviously inaccurate). Think about how great those sites are.
DMOZ has gambling guidelines
http://dmoz.org/guidelines/gambling/
Every category has a category description. Despite that, people charge right on by those and submit stuff that obviously doesn’t qualify for the category. People should just build the sites they want, but if you want to consider dmoz as you are doing it, read the guidelines and category description and look at the listed sites. If you understand that they want to list wizardofodds.com or casinoaffiliatesprograms.com, then you should see you have to make very good sites.
The best assist though is that dmoz needs a lot of gambling editors. This is because hardly anyone is volunteering now, and the senior editors don’t trust gambling or adult editors much so there would be strength in numbers. The organization has unfortunately gone through lots of editors in those fields over the years.
There need to be people willing to do the work, fairly. And they need people willing to do the work to do the work. The paying the dues stuff, like starting small, or even starting in the Regional branch. If Randy, and simoneaton, and Jarvi and others persisted in doing what is necessary to join up now, three or four months from now whole sections of the Gambling categories could be made up to date and more valuable to users. If you guys don’t do it, who will? If you guys don’t want to do it, why should anyone else? It’s not like you are donating an organ or something.
If you want to believe like antione that dmoz isn’t important, fine, go to another thread. If you want to see your qualify sites, and the qualifying sites of all your competitors, listed in this web directory, then do something about it and volunteer, and keep volunteering if need be.