How long can you expect to wait, to be listed?

I realise you have discontinued the site submission status, and I had posted in there. The reason I am asking again though is my site has been running since 26/3/2004. I have dmoz search on my site and have a page ranking of 5. Yet I am still not listed on dmoz has my site been lost? How does the system work behind the scenes, do moderators just have a huge list of sites to review? Is it normal to be over a year to be listed?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Peace N love B with U

Please read our FAQ for answers to all your questions.

Just to add to the FAQs

I have dmoz search on my site

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It isn't a requirement but thank you anyway!

have a page ranking of 5

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Page rank has zero effect on reviews or listings. We list sites with zero and reject others with 9.

has my site been lost

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There is no way of telling but if one more submission to the correct category would put your mind at rest then it won't get you labelled as a spammer.

How does the system work behind the scenes

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That would take a long time to answer but fortunately everything is available in our guidelines - you can access them from the main DMOZ site.

do moderators just have a huge list of sites to review

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At any one time I can see about a million (not an exageration) sites, waiting in categories like you see on the public side, for review, some have more, some have less. Where I edit today depends on many things including where I've been, what I've done, what was on the news, what made me laugh, what movie I watched on TV, where I want to go on holiday next year, whether I want chocolate pudding for desert, and so on. In other words entirely unpredictable 5 minutes before I actually enter editing mode. Whatever catches my eye or intrigues my brain.

Is it normal to be over a year to be listed?

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It is normal to take a week, a month, a year, several years, there are so many factors involved - the site, the submission, the subject, the category, the competition, the editors available, the editors interested enough, the time of year, the movie on TV tonight... that's why we stopped trying to predict how long a piece of string is!

It is, unfortunately, normal for submitters to think the universe began with their submittal. It is normal for editors to know that the date of submittal is of no relevance whatsoever.

Why not? See, some idiots submit long before they begin creating a site, some long-existing sites are submitted, some sites are submitted the day their index page is posted, some excellent sites are NEVER submitted. There's no way for an editor to tell which submittals fall into which classes. So we don't try. We ignore all their dates.

Date of submittal doesn't correspond to anything in reality. It doesn't change our backlog: if the site was already up, it was already on our backlog even if we didn't know about it yet. If it wasn't already up, it still isn't in our backlog. So editors don't track submittal date, the system doesn't try to maintain it (although we can often see the date of MOST RECENT submittal, which is not at all the same thing as date of FIRST submittal) -- and when it comes down to it, even for sites we list at all we don't know or care when they were first submitted.

Even for sites we list at all, did I day? NO submittal is guaranteed a listing -- it says so right in the submittal policy! Experience even tells us that the vast majority of submittals are for sites that will never be listed.

So if you're thinking that twenty seconds of form-processing and X months in purgatory (possibly shortened by burning candles or something) guarantee you swift release to heaven, you're unclear on at least four different concepts.

And, as Buzz Lightyear says ....

"To infinity and beyond!"

It is entirely possible that he was trying to describe how long the theoretical wait lasts.