Status of http://www.radicasoftware.com

Please let me know the status of http://www.radicasoftware.com submitted to http://dmoz.org/Science/Technology/Software_for_Engineering/Electrical_Engineering/

When was the site last submitted? You have to wait a month from that date before asking for a status update here.

I submitted the site in June, which is 2 months ago. One month ago I saw on this forum that I may need to wait 6 months for an answer so I gave up. Now, I'm trying again by joining in. It would be great help if some information like : there are now 3000 submissions awaiting review and yours in on number 99999.

Thanks and regards.
Thomas Yip

It would be great help if some information like : there are now 3000 submissions awaiting review and yours in on number 99999.

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We don't give answers like that because we don't work that way.

It's not like we have someone working 9-5 on that category and that category alone.

We have thousands of editors. Most of them have more than one category. Many can edit anywhere in the directory they feel like that day. Our pool of submissions is huge and people work on the areas they feel comfortable working in.

Now I haven't added up all the submissions, but I believe there are well over a million of them and yours is there. I wasn't supposed to tell you until next month, since we have no evidence of your June submission - only for one from August 16th.

We'll review it when we get to it. That's all I can say. It could be next week. It could be next year.

If it hasn't been listed by March 21st, you may come back to this thread and inquire as to the status of the submission then - just to make sure it wasn't deleted by accident.

We try and pace our answers here to give us more time for actual editing.

Thanks sole, at the very least your reply is informational. Looks like you editors had your hands full. Try what everyone does, get help. Yea, I know, get quality help or at least try. Thanks a million.

Any Suggestions on What Can Be Done?

As I understand and have read some of the forums regarding how editors process new submissions, I am not asking for a submission status.

However, the category that I submitted to: http://dmoz.org/Science/Technology/Software_for_Engineering/Electrical_Engineering/ seems to be inactive. According to spectregunner , in this post, it seems that the category I submitted to should have been looked into by now. Make no mistake, I do not expect each category, nor my submission to be reviewed at the same rate as other categories.

For those categories, that seems to be inactive, may anyone suggest what a guy like me should do? Applying to be an editor for that category does not seem the right thing to do as I would be biased, and ODP doesn't allow it anyway.

Is the only way is to wait till someone is interested in that category and let it be?

Is the only way is to wait till someone is interested in that category and let it be?

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That's the least stressful way to proceed . It's the nature of a volunteer organisation that we don't, and indeed can't, control timescales.

6 months is nothing

6 months is nothing to grumble about. If you look at this thread , which is mine, it says that I asked for the submission status in August 2004. Plus I had to wait 3 months before I can even ask that question.

Altogether it has been almost 19 months...more than a year and a half.