Application Status?

How can I find the status of my site submission? I've submitted the site to 3 or 4 categories over the past 6 months since it launched ... and nothing has happened. No status, no emails, no listing.

Can someone help me to determine the status of my site? I'm note sure whether its just pending or not being accepted? Moreover, if its not being accepted, what am I doing wrong?

Note - I just submitted the site to 3 relevent categories again this evening, since its been a while.

Thanks
Neal.

Please take the trouble to read the announcement at the top of this forum.

Then you might like to re-read[1] our submission guidelines at http://dmoz.org/add.html which instruct you to suggest your website to the one best category.

[1] You acknowledged that you'd read and agreed them on each occasion.

Clarification and Feedback Please

Yes, I read the submission requirements ... but I only submitted different subsections of my site to different catgegories, after (a) no response from my initial attempts to submit just the root of my site to one category and (b) I begin to see a couple of my competitors popping up in numerous categories. Clearly what I was trying before wasn't working .. so I tried something else.

Honestly, if you (DMOZ) want to control user submission behavior, the very best thing you could do is provide a status and feedback option for submitters. I am probably like many submitters in that I'm not at all trying to scam the system .. but I'm getting *NO FEEDBACK* and I have no idea what is going on ... so I'm just trying different things now, hoping something will work!

At any rate - my original question was regarding my site's status. Is it safe to assume from your comments that it has once again been rejected? If so, can you please provide me some guidance to achieve a successful submission? I mean, I've tried picking the right section before. I've read those instructions quite carefully in the past ... and it still didn't work. So, what has been the basis of my rejection? What specifically can I do to get accepted? My site is actually a pretty valuable resource full of a ton of custom content ... if I'm being rejected it must be not on the merits of the site but ratehr due to submission process, which is why I'm asking for some guidance please.

The law and the prophets are in the submittal policies. There is no better guidance that can be given. There is no action that will ensure any website a listing. (This is considered a feature of the ODP process.)

Per forum policy, you have been given no reason to suspect the site has been reviewed, let alone rejected. Therefore it's meaningless to speculate about possible reasons for rejection.

The shoe is always on the other foot. Editors are looking for reasons for inclusion. If the website doesn't give any such reason, it doesn't get included.

Well, this is very disappointing. I was really hoping to at least get some insight as to what the heck is going on.

...by the way, given that you're not suppose to submit your site to more than one directory location if may of interest for you to note that one of my competitors shows up in at least for of your categories: <url removed>

....when a competitor shows up in numerous places and a competing site of equal or better quality can't get placement after months of trying...one has to wonder the reason behind that, ya know?

Well, think about it this way: when an editor reviews a site, how could he POSSIBLY know whether there were another site of "better quality" somewhere?

We can't. So we don't try. We just look at the site we're looking at.

We don't ask what "quality" it is. We ask what unique content it contains. If it seems to contain unique content, we list it as appropriate (that is, in one or more categories.)

And think of "trying to get placement" this way. You can't, there is no way of trying to get placement. You can suggest that an editor look at a site, and that's all. Anything else you do (towards the ODP) is either futile or abusive. I'm not sure what you did that you thought was "trying", and won't ask. But you might ask yourself what you expected whatever you did to accomplish (more than "making it easier for an editor to find that kind of site, next time he was looking.")