Question about submission time

Hi,

My website has been waiting to be reviewed since July 24th, 2002. Is there anything I can do to help speed up the process? Would changing the category help or just slow it down even more?

Thanks,
Jay

Short answer: no, and no again.

Slightly longer answer:

1. You could apply to become an editor (that is, if you're willing to build the corresponding category, finding new sites by yourself and treating each and every submission fairly).

2. Submitting the site to a less-than-best-fitted category will not get your site listed faster. If it has not been already submitted, it will slow the process, because the reviewing editor will have (after an unforeseeable waiting time) to determine which category is best, then move the submission there, where it will have to wait again to be reviewed... And if it has already been submitted to the best fitted category, then you will cause us unnnecessary work to identify the 2nd submission as a duplicate and to delete it.

So: submit to the category* which, to your opinion and knowledge, fits your site best; and do not submit elsewhere. Many thanks for following that simple rule

* Exceptions: multilingual sites can be submitted to different, equivalent categories in the languages they are available in ; sites that have a local interest as well as a topical one may be listed twice, once in a topical category, and also in the appropriate Regional category -- see http://dmoz.org/guidelines/site-specific.html#multiple to get a full explanation.

Thanks for the help!
Jay

Is there anything I can do to help speed up the process?

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Volunteer to be an editor in a different area of the directory. If enough submitters did this, there would be plenty of coverage across the directory at the lowest levels to process everyone's submissions faster than they are done now.