Advice on resubmitting please.

Hello,
I submitted my site about 1 year ago & was not listed (I'm not looking for submission status) even though I spent hours rereading your guidlines.

My site was voted top 10 shopping sites by yahoo UK & Its been mentioned & reviewd by a bunch of fashion mags & websites so I know it's a good site. (poshgirlvintage.com)

I want to relist but want to make sure I'm doing it correctly. I submitted it to:
Shopping: Antiques and Collectibles: Clothing

Is there somthing else I may be missing that would have caused the no listing?

Thank you in advance for you time & help!!!

We don't do status checks anymore. But when we did them (you can sample the archived forum to check this, if you like) it was exceedingly rare for (1) the submittal to have anything to do with a rejection, (2) anything reparable in the site to have anything to do with a rejection.

What's most common (by an order of magnitude or three) is ... there are lots of clothing (or whatever) sites, many of which are spam: so reviewing the categories is high-cost, low-value -- and therefore by logic and necessity low priority. Which means longer waits for legitimate sites (whether submitted yet, or not).

Hmm... my friends vintage clothing site was submitted after me & was accepted by you guys so I can't understand why my site was overlooked?

I will try again.

Is there a way to know if I am being penalized for a submission mistake or wrong catagory or somthing else?

Who was the vicious liar who told you that all sites are reviewed in the order they are submitted? Deliberately causing you to reach invalid conclusions from false premises?

Sites aren't reviewed in submittal order: they never have been, and they couldn't be. For years I and other editors have been telling people, publicly and privately, the truth: from the outside (and mostly from the inside!), the effect of thousands of editors dynamically choosing their own priorities is that for all practical purposes the order of site reviews will look random.

THERE IS NO WAY OF PREDICTING IN WHAT ORDER SITES WILL BE REVIEWED! If you think you know a way, if you think you know what order sites have been reviewed, ... then you are wrong.

There is a way of knowing you are being penalized for a submission mistake.

THERE IS NO SUCH PENALTY!

There is a way if to know if you are being penalized for a wrong category.

THERE IS NO SUCH PENALTY!

Geez. you don't have to get all upset about a few questions. There is no way for the general public , like myself, to know how you operate. It is just assumed by many that it goes in order.

There are forums for website optimization that specifically tell people there are penalties & other things that DMOZ gives out , that I personally take with a grain of salt , but have seen with my own eyes.

I'm just trying to learn the right way. Not spam or do anyhting wrong.

The right way to learn is to go to an authoritative source.

The ODP mission, and the policies that govern all volunteers (even the administrators) are all public. There's a link to them (http://dmoz.org/help/about.html ) on every page of the directory.

That would be the place to start.

I don't know that hutcheson was upset when he posted -- vehement, yes, but not upset. But then I mentally inserted smiley faces after some of his comments.

There are forums for website optimization that specifically tell people there are penalties & other things that DMOZ gives out , that I personally take with a grain of salt , but have seen with my own eyes.

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There is a lot of disreputable information out there about the ODP. Some of it is a result of people innocently making (and clinging to) the wrong assumptions based on how they think the ODP should work. But a lot of it is malicious and serves little purpose except to mess with the heads of people like yourself who just want information about suggesting their sites.