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Short answer: NoNicoleta said:Can anybody help me with the status?
Little longer answer: please read our FAQ, Why can't we ask about the status of our site suggestions anymore?
jimnoble
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Those aren't relevant questions because this isn't a conveyor belt and because you wouldn't be able to deduce any useful answers from the data.
ODP is a volunteer organisation building a directory as a hobby. Editors edit where they wish, when they wish and as much as they wish within the constraints of their permissions. We have no schedules or systems to force people to do work that they don't volunteer to do. ODP is not primarily a free listing service for website owners and it does not attempt to process their listing suggestions within the time scales desired by them.
Some volunteer will process your listing suggestion in time but we can't predict who or when that might be. If your website is listable, it'll eventually be listed. Elapsed times can range from a few days to a few years. There is no need to re-suggest your website and doing so could be counter-productive because a later suggestion overwrites any earlier one.
ODP is a volunteer organisation building a directory as a hobby. Editors edit where they wish, when they wish and as much as they wish within the constraints of their permissions. We have no schedules or systems to force people to do work that they don't volunteer to do. ODP is not primarily a free listing service for website owners and it does not attempt to process their listing suggestions within the time scales desired by them.
Some volunteer will process your listing suggestion in time but we can't predict who or when that might be. If your website is listable, it'll eventually be listed. Elapsed times can range from a few days to a few years. There is no need to re-suggest your website and doing so could be counter-productive because a later suggestion overwrites any earlier one.
Here's why you're completely wrong. Your questions aren't relevant because you know nothing of the statistical behavior of the queue.
Consider two extreme cases:
(1) A million websites wait, neglected, in the queues. Meanwhile, every day a thousand new submittals come in and are immediately reviewed. Actual wait time for all 99.9% of all waiting sites, infinity.
(2) A million websites wait, and every day the oldest thousand websites are reviewed. Actual wait time for all waiting sites, under a year.
To a logical mind, the statistics you ask for can't distinguish between these two cases, or between any of the infinitude of possibilities between them.
A logical mind would have first asked which of those patterns editing reviews fall into. And ... it's somewhere between them, but nobody really knows what the pattern is.
So, unfortunately, even if you'd been logical enough to ask the right questions, you still couldn't have gotten any information....because it's just not known by anyone.
Consider two extreme cases:
(1) A million websites wait, neglected, in the queues. Meanwhile, every day a thousand new submittals come in and are immediately reviewed. Actual wait time for all 99.9% of all waiting sites, infinity.
(2) A million websites wait, and every day the oldest thousand websites are reviewed. Actual wait time for all waiting sites, under a year.
To a logical mind, the statistics you ask for can't distinguish between these two cases, or between any of the infinitude of possibilities between them.
A logical mind would have first asked which of those patterns editing reviews fall into. And ... it's somewhere between them, but nobody really knows what the pattern is.
So, unfortunately, even if you'd been logical enough to ask the right questions, you still couldn't have gotten any information....because it's just not known by anyone.
What figures should I know to estimate the time of waiting ?
You may give an example with figurers which will not help anybody but this is not a way to demonstrate that figurers will not help in any case.
What people like to find:
They suggested a site, they think in a right way
But how to find if it is ok ?
If is is not ok they may wait for years and just assuming that something is wrong.
If it is ok how long will wait to be listed ?
Of course, waiting time depends on domains and area.
You may give an example with figurers which will not help anybody but this is not a way to demonstrate that figurers will not help in any case.
What people like to find:
They suggested a site, they think in a right way
But how to find if it is ok ?
If is is not ok they may wait for years and just assuming that something is wrong.
If it is ok how long will wait to be listed ?
Of course, waiting time depends on domains and area.
jimnoble
DMOZ Meta
1. We don't know when some editor will evaluate your website.
2. We don't know what his decision will be.
3. Posting here won't affect the process time scale or decision.
I advise you to focus your efforts on other methods of website promotion. If an ODP listing is going to happen, it will happen when it happens.
2. We don't know what his decision will be.
3. Posting here won't affect the process time scale or decision.
I advise you to focus your efforts on other methods of website promotion. If an ODP listing is going to happen, it will happen when it happens.
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There is no way to estimate the time of waiting. The time can vary between a few days and several years. And for many website the time is a negative number as they are reviewed before they are suggested.Nicoleta said:
> They suggested a site, they think in a right way
This would be nice. Our experience is that most websites are not suggested in the right way. That is not a problem. We will correct any mistakes and remove websites that should not be suggested at all
> But how to find if it is ok ?
Read our guidelines. http://www.dmoz.org/guidelines/include.html Here we describe which sites can be inlcuded and which will not be included.
> If is is not ok they may wait for years and just assuming that something is wrong.
Or they might do things much more usefull. What are they waiting for.
> If it is ok how long will wait to be listed ?
That is unknown. Even editors do not know how much time will pass for a specific suggested site between it being suggested and being reviewed. Only at the moment the site is reviewed the time will be known. But that time will tell you nothing about the time for other websites.
Nobody knows. Nobody can know.
Fortunately, it doesn't matter. It never matters.
Because you don't have to wait. You can do whatever you want with your site, now.
What people like to find:
They suggested a site, they think in a right way
But how to find if it is ok ?
If is is not ok they may wait for years and just assuming that something is wrong.
The editors' guidelines tell how to decide if a site is listable. Anyone can read them--see http://www.dmoz.org/guidelines/ .
If the site is not listable -- so what? If your site does what you want, then that's all that matters to you. If it doesn't do what you want, then you can fix it (now, of course.)