Is a category totally stopped without an editor?

Hopefully I'm not rehashing something already here on the forums, but here goes.

I submitted a website to DMOZ for the company I work for about a year ago, and never got listed in your directory. I resubmitted about six months ago without being added, and again a few days ago. My boss is wanting a higher placement in some search engines, and we feel that a listing in DMOZ would be a big boost, so we have continued to suggest our site.

I have just realized that there is no editor listed for the category that we want to be in, so does that mean that we are at a complete stop as to getting listed in this category? I realize that the editors are all volunteers, and are not in a standard "9 to 5" role with the requirement of processing all submissions to the ODP, but is there an option for us to request an editor from another category, or a higher category, to take a look at our submission?

I have thought of applying as an editor previously, however I don't want to do so in a self-serving manner, but in a genuine attempt to help. Naturally, however, applying so that one can promote their own sites is something I'm sure that the application process with consider.

So....any advice?

...does that mean that we are at a complete stop as to getting listed in this category?

No, the fact is that the majority of all edits are done by someone OTHER than the listed editors.

>is there an option for us to request an editor from another category, or a higher category, to take a look at our submission?

Yes, it's called "suggest a site" -- the first time you did that, it recorded the request which remains available until it's processed, and remains visible to all editors with privileges there (including editors in those higher categories as well as "unrestricted" editors).

>however, applying so that one can promote their own sites is something I'm sure that the application process with consider.

That is an issue. The usual recommendation is to choose a category where you'd be a surfer, not a webmaster.

but is there an option for us to request an editor from another category, or a higher category, to take a look at our submission?

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That is exactly what happens thousands of times a day. Editors with "permissions" travel throughout the directory, doing what they wish to do, constrained only buy there imaginations and permissions.

Now bosses don't seem to understand (feel free to print this out and show it to yours) that we are completely self-directed. No one within the project has the right to tell any other editor where to edit (although there have been some spectacular/hilarious pleas for assitance in the internal discussion area); and by extension, there is absolutely no way someone outside of the project can influence those individual editing decisions.

Imagine a world where you work where and when you wish, for however long you wish, doing the parts of the job that you like best, and no one can make you do any task you don't wish to do. And, not only do you not have to tell or ask permission on what you are going to do during a given editing session, you don't even have to give anyone a report on what you have done. It is the kind of thing that give "managers" and "bosses" the hives.

No, my friend, but submitting/suggesting your site, you have done all that you can do. If it is any consolation, there are buckets and buckets full of sites that have been waiting two, three, and even four years for an editor interested in taking a peek at them. In fact, if you try to do much mroe, you will no doubt cross the invisible line from beign a good submitter to a bad submitter -- and you don't want that to happen.

Thank you for the response. Another question then....

Yes, it's called "suggest a site" -- the first time you did that, it recorded the request which remains available until it's processed, and remains visible to all editors with privileges there (including editors in those higher categories as well as "unrestricted" editors).

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Does this mean that the site is still in que to be reviewed for the first submission, even after a year, or the latest submission? Or has it possibly/probably been rejected and removed? And if the first submission hasnt yet been seen/reviewed, do following submissions affect the submission process of the site? Or is there any way to find out?

Like I said, hopefully I'm not repeating previous questions, I just need to know so that I can understand the process and ( hopefully ) get my boss to understand as well.

My boss with a case of the "hives" would be nothing compared to his temper. And you're more than welcome to show him for me

Does this mean that the site is still in que to be reviewed for the first submission, even after a year, or the latest submission?

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Oh, yes. suggestions remain in place until such time as they are acted upon in some manner by an editor.

Newer suggestions of the same site, to the same cateogyr usually just overwrite the first suggestion. Not entirely a bad thing, but....and this is critical...if the editor shouts "all you suggestions get out of the pool and line up by who has been there the longest" then you may have lost your place in line.

If, on the other hand, the editor shouts "all you suggestions get out of the pool and line in alphabetical order" then your relative position is unchanged.

Or is there any way to find out?

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That is a status check, and we no longer do those. You think your boss's temper is bad, go through some of the old archives and see what bad behavior is all about.

There's no way to find out, but there's hardly ever anything you can do with that information anyway.