Inactive editor

Hello,

I submitted my site 3 years ago in the category that best suits my site and did what I was told to do. Submit it and forget it. Well my site is 3 years old now and page rank of 4 and I began to wonder why I was not in DMOZ yet. I swung back to DMOZ to see about my submission . I went to the page that I submitted my site too. The page was last edited about 40 months ago. I also notice this editor is an editor in about 15 categories that are in my genre. Way it goes I understand.

My questions are this.

1. If a category hasn't been edited in 3 years is that category closed forever ?

2. If you should only submit once , what about a situation like this when an editor has been inactive for years. Are they alive ?

3. By submitting again in another active category, are you given a red mark, even if the time between submission is years.

4. If your site passes all the DMOZ guidelines and 3 years pass, are you considered obnoxious and impatient for asking these questions ?

5. What is a great course of action from this point on ?

1. If a category hasn't been edited in 3 years is that category closed forever ?
No. Categories can be closed (no suggesstion possible, the link will be removed from the category), but being closed for new suggestions has nothing to do with editor activity in the category.


2. If you should only submit once , what about a situation like this when an editor has been inactive for years. Are they alive ?
Editors may work as much as they want in categories they want. Editors are never forced to do certain work. If no editor is interested inworking in a certain category than such a category might see no activity for some time. That is no problem, other categories will be wiorked on. On DMOZ we look at the big picture. DMOZ as a whole grows, that is improtant. That certain categories doe not grow for some time is soemthing we accept.


3. By submitting again in another active category, are you given a red mark, even if the time between submission is years.
No. You should suggest to the ONE best category. If you suggest to a category that is not the best you will increase workload for editors. An editor will move the wrongly suggested website to the right category. Now the suggestion will have to wait twice. By increasing the workload for editors you will make things for you and anyone else look to take even longer.

4. If your site passes all the DMOZ guidelines and 3 years pass, are you considered obnoxious and impatient for asking these questions ?
We are used to people being impatient.


5. What is a great course of action from this point on ?
There is nothing you can do to speed up processing in DMOZ.
You could ofcourse becoem an editor yourself. Not to process your own suggestion (we do not accept people who are only interested in their own website). More hands are alwyas welcome, you can help processing the huge load of suggestions we receive.

Thanks. I will keep waiting