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• ODP Guidelines Updated: Affiliation Disclosures - The Conflicts of Interest section of the ODP Guidelines has been updated with the revised policy on affiliation disclosures. (August 16, 2004)
• Affiliation Disclosures - Revised Policy and New Tool - In order to facilitate community self-regulation efforts, we expect all editors to disclose any affiliations that pose conflict between their philanthropic interests and their self-interest in specific websites. (July 15, 2004)
• Promotion Myths - Certain myths about the process for promoting editors to cateditall+ permissions arise from time to time. (November 14, 2003)
• Jurisdiction Tags in Titles - What are the characteristics of a category which can effectively use jurisdiction tags? (November 3, 2003)
• Computers vs. Business_Services - Does a Business_Service belong in Computers? (June 17, 2003)
• For XXX WebBrowser Only - What is the policy for sites like that? (June 1, 2003)
• Copyright violation - special case? - The submission is one page from a larger site -- otherwise a valid deep link for the page -- but it is not only one of the many pages on the site copied from an in-copyright book. (March 22, 2003)
• Calling for submissions: Appropriate? - That's OK. (March 13, 2003)
• CTRL-ALT-DEL - Remember, real humans are editing here. (March 13, 2003)
• .ORG top level domain changeover - WHOIS (February 5, 2003)
• Clueless Editor - Just bewilderment over editing shortcomings. (December 11, 2002)
• What is the line between Business and Regional? - This is something that needs to be discussed again as there have been many misconceptions. (October 29, 2002)
• Business Reorganization - Phase II - Organization of second-tier sorted "industry sector" categories, and examining "templates" for operation/ functional topics like consulting, employment, marketing, etc. (September 13, 2002)
• How To Deal With Spam In Unreviewed (August 24, 2002)
• Mozzie's Mentors 2 (August 3, 2002)
• Fighting Poor Ontology - What Is Consensus (July 15, 2002)
• BIZ FAQ - Post your Business questions here for Business answers. (July 1, 2002)
• Mozzies Mentors: An editing school and mentor program - The Mozzies Mentors announcement, and action thread. (May 29, 2002)
• Equivalent ways to emphasize? - THIS, _this_ and *this*. (May 10, 2002)
• Wrong CAT - Do not just delete it. (March 22, 2002)
• Double Listing - There is no rule that says a site cannot be listed more than once in the topical part of the directory. (March 4, 2002)
• Old Editall/CatMV Questions - Wanted to check and see if anyone had any particular thread or documentation pointers that might be helpful. (February 10, 2002)
• Cooling - Cooling needs to be discussed with a potential goal of banning it? (January 27, 2002)
• American or British? - This question has been raised several times in the past... http://dmoz.org/Test/ODP/Quality_Control/Queen%27s_English/ (January 16, 2002)
• Site owner requesting removal - Need permission to link to a site? (October 16, 2001)
• New Project: MusicMoz.org - Editor crazybanjo and newwave are pleased to announce the creation of another potential Open Content project, MusicMoz. (September 25, 2001)
• What Makes a Description Good? - Find some helpful advice and guidelines for writing useful site descriptions by rdkeating25. (September 13, 2001)
• Bribery - See item 9 in particular. (August 31, 2001)
• How many submissions I must have to apply for additional category? - Approval for new cats is based on a number of things, including the number of total edits, the quality of those edits, and generally what kind than have been done. (July 30, 2001)
• There's More to Editing than Unreviewed - Site submissions is only one of the many ways for you to get sites to add to your category. Here are a few other ways you can find quality sites to add to your categories. (July 21, 2001)
• I'll be away - Post here if you'd like others to know why greens are going up in your category, extended coffee breaks not included. (July 12, 2001)
• Ghostbuster - How to sniff out 'ghost' unreviews. (Forum thread) (April 20, 2001)
• Editor Etiquette - How long should an editor wait before expecting an editor in a lower level category to do any work? (April 8, 2001)
• Do Not Delete Robo Errors If They Are Listed - Urges editors to not delete reds without investigation. (January 30, 2001)
• A critic article about dmoz - http://www.traffick.com/story.asp?StoryID=59 (January 29, 2001)
• Does Anyone Care? - Feedback from other editors. (January 19, 2001)
• 'Deep Linking' Comes Under Fire - StepStone, a UK online recruitment company, has obtained an injunction in Germany preventing Danish rival OFiR. (January 18, 2001)
• Unwritten Golden Rule - A Take on ODP Editors And Assets to be Admired. (December 19, 2000)
• How to keep ODP editors - Treat editors with courtesy and respect. (December 17, 2000)
• Business Guidelines - A discussion about the guidelines and being a top level editor. (November 30, 2000)
• Rehabilitation of Bad Submitters - In need of a process to allow for rehabilitation. (November 24, 2000)
• RIP (November 15, 2000)
• Category Cool Site Review - Proposition for requests and reviews of suggested cool sites. (November 9, 2000)
• Cooling Your Own Site, Part II - Continuuation of thread linked below concerning the proposal (linked above) to offer category cool site reviews. (November 9, 2000)
• Democracy in ODP - Topic of "General". (October 30, 2000)
• ODP Guidelines: Copyright (October 27, 2000)
• Nurey's Tools: Proliferation and Support Area - Discuss, announce, and praise the tools found at http://nurey.net/dmoz/ (October 25, 2000)
• Cooling your own site - Attempts to defend previous self-cooling, then begs to be considered for it. Countered with explanation why it's okay for Metas to uncool a site without feedback. (October 8, 2000)
• Sort Dates - Please DO NOT USE! - Do NOT enter the date you edited the site in the sort date field! (September 28, 2000)
• Communication Guidelines - It's useful if everyone reread the guidelines on communication. (September 27, 2000)
• Outsider's view of joining DMOZ? - At least acknowledge the application in some way? (September 27, 2000)
• Those We Label Spammers - No definitive guideline for what is considered spam. (September 12, 2000)
• The Sound of Silence - People talking without speaking, People hearing without listening, People writing songs that voices never share, And no one dare (Simon and Garfunkel). (September 4, 2000)
• I Wish Someone Had Told Me - Share little tips that you wish you had known earlier. (June 6, 2000)
• Why URL Cloaking is bad - Good synopsis of the situation. Discussion with same general consensus -- list the real URL. Robozilla usually can't flag broken redirects such as these. (March 28, 2000)
• Topic: Expelling editors - Getting fired over a fight with editor robozilla. (January 26, 2000)
• ODP Culture for Newbies, part II - An attempt by a new editor to make sense of the ODP. (January 11, 2000)

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