How many submissions does Dmoz.org get daily?

Can an editor tell us, how many submissions Dmoz gets daily?

What are the most 'popular' categories?

If you are an editor responding, what is your category and how many submissions do you get?

The reason I ask is because there are over 8 billion web pages in Google's Index and I was just curious

The shortened version of the thread title, from the main screen, said "How many submissions does ..." I thought it was going to finish "it take to change a light bulb". I'm disappointed now, no joke.

I have no idea of the total received daily, many are weeded out by anti-spamming filters. As an editall "my category" is the whole lot, same for most editors who post here - editalls and metas, and the other regulars are usually sith overlords of one of the branches with anything up to a million sites listed in them. We list circa 2000 sites a day, maybe manually remove twice that many in duplicates and spam, and I haven't noticed the numbers waiting increasing massively.

Most popular categories are those people think they can make money out of being listed in. Often that coincides with the categories editors are least interested in. Combine the two and well you guess ... Think of the type of spam you get in your email - well we get the sites that go with those emails.

Google will index your granny's shopping list if it can see it. We only list sites with quality content, each one after a proper review by a human being (or one of the cats many female editors seem to keep on their laps whilst editing). That's what makes us unique alongside being very cheap, so cheap we give 'em away.

Interesting! WoW :: That's a lot of sites!

oneeye said:

We only list sites with quality content, each one after a proper review by a human being

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I have to disagree on that point only because I've noticed *MANY* [start rant] b/s sites listed where I KNOW my site has better content, is better looking, and verus those sites, it should be in the directory.

I've been trying for almost two years trying to get listed but never received an Email, response, or got listed. [/rant]

I pretty much gave up on getting my site listed at ODP. It doesn't matter b/c it's not like ODP will do that much for a website but it would still be nice to get listed!

Is it possible for editors to delete or not list sites (aka competition) b/c these editors have their sites in ODP.

Anyways, Interesting to view stats. Anyone else?

I applied to become an editor in the category I've been desperately trying to get listed at. I'm curious as to see what happens.

We have noticed that ODP's definition of quality differs from what most webmasters think is quality in their own website.

I've been trying for almost two years trying to get listed but never received an Email, response, or got listed

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We never send email or response.
Did you already ask for a status of your suggestion? No. S maybe it is still waiting or maybe it has been rejected many times already (I guess you have been suggesting the same site more than once).

I applied to become an editor in the category I've been desperately trying to get listed at. I'm curious as to see what happens.

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I think this is a very bad reason to become an editor. We need editors who care about ODP, not editors who are only interested in getting their sites listed.
If you applied you can ask for status after 14 day in the right part of R-Z.

I personally think i'd be nice for the editors to send out rejection notices But that would slow down the process a lot.

Second, there spam filters?!?! i never knew...

Enough spam still manages to get through to keep hundreds of editors fully occupied though, hence substantial listing delays in many spam-magnet categories. Is is conceivable these days that any organisation of any size wouldn't have spam filters!

If you notice some of the arguments with the tiny proportion of submitters that request status updates - maybe a dozen a day are told their site is rejected whereas maybe 4000 suggestions a day are actually rejected - you can see that sending out rejection notices would create absolute havoc. People will also associate the rejection with any named editor a category has although very often another editor did the rejecting - in a number of cases where an editor has communicated with a submitter over a rejection it has resulted in abusive responses, even threats of violence. Hence few editors these days communicate with submitters. It is a sad world in that respect unfortunately. So no, it wouldn't be nice for us to send out rejection notices. For many a rejection email would also be a prompt to resubmit the site to a different category or maybe a heavily disguised mirror site, again not something that would aid us in any way.

The answer, as usual, is to follow DMOZ guidelines precisely and submit excellent unique quality information-packed sites for consideration - then there is no need to be rejected let alone receive a notice about it.

oneeye said:

The shortened version of the thread title, from the main screen, said "How many submissions does ..." I thought it was going to finish "it take to change a light bulb". I'm disappointed now, no joke.

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hehe