Can I get some help please?

Hello to anyone reading this.

I'm a little lost at the moment. I submitted my site ( www.freewebs.com/danial_ashley _ over a month ago and it hasn't been in your search directory. I would place this post in the appropriate catagory as asked of posters concerning submissions and inquiries, but I forget where I submitted it. I'm sorry if this is improper or inconvinient. Should I just re-submitt the site again under the appropriate catagory? Thank you for your time.

~Danial~

If you don't remember where you submitted it, we usually cannot give you specific advice.

If you submit ONCE more, remembering the category this time, we can tell you the status of that submittal after a month. (I still haven't figured out what practical use that information would be, but .... your choice.)

Alright thanks. I'm going to go do that.

Ok, I've been looking through the catagories and I'm wondering which one would be most appropriate. My Girlfriend and I share this website and there is poetry, we plan on getting married, it talks about the camp we go to and met at and several other subjects are discussed and presented. What should I put it under? The main purpose for this site it to give our friends information on what we are up too and for any one else more information on who we are and to amuse people. So, any one have a catagory suggestion? Thanks again.

Look around in http://www.dmoz.org/Society/People/Personal_Homepages/ [and all the subcategories] and see if that area is suitable.

Alright thank you very much. Ummm, to any Editors, my official entry in the one I put in Society/Relationships/Personal Pages/Dedications. If you find another one anywhere else please delete or ignore it. Thank you very much. (I'll be checking pretty much every day to see when it is added. Thanks again)

Danial Lilley

hutcheson said:

If you submit ONCE more, remembering the category this time, we can tell you the status of that submittal after a month. (I still haven't figured out what practical use that information would be, but .... your choice.)

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It helps to know whether the submission made it into the system, pool or slush pile or not.

They don't always do so . . . .

JDK

Ummm, It's been a month...

Hey guys,

Umm, it's been a little over a month. Can I please know if my submission made it into the pile, pool, heep, slush, whatnot? I'd really like to get my site on here. Thanks.

The website is www.freewebs.com/danial_ashley

Thanks again.

~Dan~

The submission has been received and is awaiting review in Society: Relationships: Personal Pages: Dedications.

Thank you very much for letting me know.

~Dan~

Is it there yet?

I understand that in light of the holidays and the site's migration things probably got back logged, but can someone please let me know how my site is doing in its revision? Thank you very much for your time and effort.

~Dan~

Danial said:

can someone please let me know how my site is doing in its revision?

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No, we will not.
As by out Forum Guidelines you are allowed to ask for a status 6 months or later after your previous request. This would be June 4th, 2005

At the risk of wrath...

Short of guessing or mind reading, is there any way to know if your submission is rejected or in the process of being accepted? or do you just have to assume that it's on the way? :curious:

Answer has been given on december 4th.
The suggestion has been received and will be reviewed. When we can nbot predict.
And has been told before. Only ask for status after 6 months.

The "process" of being accepted consists of days of boredom punctuated by moments of editing. Odds are always pretty high today is one of the boring days -- you can't go wrong assuming it is.

For a different reason, you can't go wrong assuming the worst has already struck, and the site is rejected. Why? When you see clearly that the responsibility for your own site promotion falls back on yourself, with no conceivable impending help, ... then you'll be in the right frame of mind to take the most appropriate action. And then, if a site listing comes, you be still better off as a result.

Best is to think of it this way: ideally, at the very moment that you think, "I don't need the ODP listing: my site is established as an authority without its imprimatur and beyond its criticism", some editor should think, "no longer can the ODP exist as a comprehensive directory without including this uniquely informative site," -- and list it. We don't always achieve this paraxodical ideal, of course.

And we do have this OTHER ideal: "to discover as yet unknown sites with unique information, and enrol them to the human community of contributors to human knowledge."

Assuming, of course, that that's your purpose: but if not, rejection is likely anyway.

In other words: the state of your submittal has no practical effect on your own actions. But the state of your mind is everything.

I should add: I understand the feeling, and deal with it myself. "I've finished another e-text; why can't those OTHER volunteers post it. I've reviewed another hundred sites; why can't LYCOS hurry up and post the latest ODP changes? I've ..."

It doesn't matter. Move on to the next e-text, the next category, the next major section of the website, whatever. It just means there'll be that much more for Mr. Godot when he shows up.