Status of: http://www.DigitalWorkTools.com

Can someone please update me on the status of my site submission:

http://www.digitalworktools.com/

that was submitted to category:

http://www.dmoz.org/Business/Small_Business/Resources/

On March 9th, 2005. A status update would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!!

Wade Anderson
www.DigitalWorkTools.com
wanderson@digitalworktools.com

Help from an Editor

Can someone please respond to my post from yesterday. I have waited over 30 days, read and followed the rules, and written my status request in the format prescribed yet no one has responded to the post. I noticed that several, almost identical posts, just above and below mine received responses so if you would respond to mine as well it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!!

Wade Anderson

[r]recd[/r]

Thank you! I have a quick question though.

I greatly appreciate your response and will wait as my site, like you said, is under review.

I do have a "general question" though related to the review of sites. I can understand a backlog of sites waiting to be reviewed in certain popular categories, but what if someone submits to a category that contains few websites and receives few submissions? What is a realistic time for them to wait to be reviewed?

What if someone submits to a category where the assigned editor has totally lost interest, no longer reviews submissions, and hasn't reviewed a site in months or years.

How do you make sure your site doesn't fall victim to this type of situation and slip through the cracks...never to be reviewed and therefore never included in the directory?

You can't resubmit for fear of being banned...is this website they stuck in limbo forever?

Thanks, I am new here and just trying to learn more about how this directory works.

Thanks!

Wade

There is nothing you can do, editors choose to edit when and where they feel like it. There are always hundreds of editors for every category, and any of these editors may take a wandering stroll into any category and decide to review sites.

A site that is of no interest to anyone today, make beomc very interesting to someone tomorrow. The number of sites waiting for review really has no bearing on the review times - except that a new editor is not likely to be except in an area which is large.

The majority of editing takes place by unnamed editors in categories when there is no "assigned" editor. There is no way to tell that this is happening without accesto internal logs of activity.

Resubmitting does nothing to help you and can definitely hurt you.