Can you tell me if my listing has been rejected?

I have tried for a whole year to get listed in DMOZ, being a rookie at the internet the first listing may have been wrong, but since then I have carefully followed the guidlines and still we are not in.

My listing is: Name is <removed> please email me if you need more info.

Thanks

Can you tell me if my listing has been rejected?

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No; we don't provide status reports.

precicio said:

I have tried for a whole year to get listed in DMOZ, being a rookie at the internet the first listing may have been wrong, but since then I have carefully followed the guidlines and still we are not in.

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Ehh. The guidelines clearly ask you to suggest a website only once.
That one suggestion will be available in the system until an editor reviews the website and either decides to list it or to reject it.
There is no reason to suggest the website several times.
If you suggest the website to many times and to many different categories it might be seen as spam.
And like you we don not like spam.

Well Please Forgive My Ignorance, misunderstood the guidlines

I thought that DMOZ did not like the "Automatic Submissions" for website programs that automatically and systematically try to upload listings.

That is where the confusion was, since the guidlines only explains the above, I thought it was safe to submit after a few weeks or even months.

Again please forgive my ignorance, I understand that you have hundreds and thousands of submission to approve or deny, hopefully you will "spare our website" it is truly unique and is actually doing a service to the world.

Thanks.

Also, Heaven Forbid, that worse happens, is there a way to get back into DMOZ's good graces, after foolish mistakes?

Foolish mistakes are too common to worry much about, unless they're obstinately persisted in to the point of exasperating the editors that have to clean up.

I'm a little confused. I submitted a site a few months ago (<url removed>). I may have written a description that isn't the best, and because of that, it may have been rejected. I don't know for a fact if it has been rejected, however, I would like to know if resubmitting with a better description would (a) change the description I submitted with the first time and (b) make my site eligible for reconsideration if it has in fact been rejected.

I feel like my site is the perfect complement to the ones already listed in the (albeit sparse) category, but I am reluctant to volunteer lest I be removed for being biased.

Thank you for your time.

First of all: Sites are not rejected due to bad dwescriptions. Most descriptions are rwritten by our editrors anyway. It might increase processing speed if an editor sees a nice, guidelines compliant description though.

(a) change the description I submitted with the first time

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Yes. If you suggest your site again in the same category, any previous suggestin that is still waiting is overwritten.

(b) make my site eligible for reconsideration if it has in fact been rejected.

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Since editors do not reject sites due to bad descriptions (unless you write sth like: This is just another spam site, yeah!), nothing will change in this case. Except that an editor will have a few seconds of work glancing at the history of the site an rejecting it again.

Whelp its more than I year now, I am still "waitn".


Any news anyone?

There is no news we can give you, as clearly explained at the top of this forum:

Important: Note: These threads are NOT for Submission Status!

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In fact jimnoble already reminded you of this earlier in the thread:

we don't provide status reports.

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Can you kindly point me in the right direction for "threads" of the kind I am wanting info on? TKS

precicio, perhaps if you could tell us exactly what you're going to do with this information, we could explain how that action would be either foolish, rude, dishonest .... or, if the action is not any of those, how you could do it RIGHT NOW.

In other words, you really don't need the answer to your question "Is the site rejected?" You need the answer to the question, "Why are you asking whether the site is rejected?"

OK, thank you for your reply. No I do not need the answer your right.

Good reason to know

If a webmaster knows why his site has been rejected, he could improve his site to better comply to the criteria of acceptance.
My site has also not been listed, although I submitted it many weeks ago. It is a really high quality site with a lot of very useful learning material in mathematics. Even wikipedia has accepted a link to my site (look for "Ebene"). So I am really wondering why this site has (probably) been rejected.
I am using a meta tag -> robots - NOODP, because I am not yet listed. Is this perhaps the reason?

heaven108 said:

If a webmaster knows why his site has been rejected, he could improve his site to better comply to the criteria of acceptance.

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Why can't / won't he improve his website without knowing.

My site has also not been listed, although I submitted it many weeks ago. .... So I am really wondering why this site has (probably) been rejected.

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Some suggested websites will only be reviewed after sereral years.
You do not need to wonder if it is or will be rejected. Just look at the guidelines, they clearly describe which websites will be listed and which not.

I am using a meta tag -> robots - NOODP, because I am not yet listed. Is this perhaps the reason?

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DMOZ editors only look at the visible parts of a website. Like all normal humans do.

If a webmaster knows why his site has been rejected, he could improve his site to better comply to the criteria of acceptance.

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And that's something that doesn't help anybody. Not the editor. Not the surfer.

See, what you are describing someone who doesn't really care about the website or the subject, they're just trolling for links. If the website is "just barely good enough for the ODP today", they're going to drop work on it forever (except, perhaps, for adding advertising).

And if it's not "just barely good enough yet", they want to add the barest little bit of content, and bother the editor AGAIN -- for a site that, remember, is NEVER intended to be more than "just barely good enough".

And, since the web is always getting bigger, what's "just barely good enough" today will be "not even close to worth listing" by next weekend. But the chances are extremely strong that someone that reluctant to add content to his site, is NEVER GOING TO GENERATE A SITE WORTH VISITING ANYWAY. And he wants to bug the editor about it every time he adds a page. It's a five-year-old attitude when told to clean his room: pick up one more toy and yell "mommy, is it clean enough yet?"

Mommies have to put up with that -- and they have ways of applying negative feedback. Editors don't, and don't. So we don't play in that sandbox. Our social contract says, "suggest it once, or maybe twice; we promise to review it once. We don't promise to review it again, ever."

So make sure it's ready for prime time before you suggest it the first time. Or make sure the site is so good that any editor would want to tell all his friends about it immediately -- AND make sure it's so well SEO'ed that any editor looking for sites would find it.