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Feb. 16th 2004 was a very big day - my first dmoz complaint:

When I first submitted ESL go.com to DMOZ, I submitted it as a student resource. I’ve added over 250 pages since then including a good number of teacher resources. For the past few months I’ve been submitting changes to DMOZ; I want to be in the “English as a second language” category rather than the “student resources” sub category.

The main reason I care is that this might boost my link popularity; the sub category pages have lower page ranks. The other thing is that I want my sight to be listed appropriately. It’s no longer strictly a student resource. However, DMOZ has been ignoring me for a while now.

Anyway, get your category right the first time when you submit to DMOZ (and I suppose this holds true for the Yahoo! directory as well) because you may never get a second chance.

What can I say about the last 4.5 years? Dmoz still sucks horribly. Submit your sites anyway, but don’t expect much.

I even offered to help edit the ESL section since obviously the editors there are falling behind. They turned down my application because it was too big a category for a new editor. I may not know much, but I do know that you are f*cking up if you ask people to volunteer and then you tell the volunteers you are not accepting applications for the position. I have no problem if they want you to apply to a smaller category first as long as they tell you. Idiots.