Submission status for urbanscooters.com

I had submitted our website, urbanscooters.com, 4 or 5 months ago to the following category http://dmoz.org/Shopping/Sports/Boarding/Skateboarding/Scooters/ and I'd like to find out about the status of this submission.

Also, it's been a while since the submission. I'd like to make sure the submission was made to urbanscooters.com rather than www.urbanscooters.com.

Thank You,

Frank

Your submission of september 17th is still waiting for review in that category. There is a lack of editors in this part of the directory unfortunately.

Yours,
Robert

[Note: Rewritten posting; first version was wrong.]

Hello gang,

I just read in another post that you can submit to two different areas of DMOZ. Is it true that I can submit our site to both our local business directory (Top: Regional: North America: United States: California: Localities: R: Redondo Beach: Business and Economy: Shopping) and to the standard category based on our sites content (Top: Shopping: Sports: Boarding: Skateboarding: Scooters)?

If I submit to the local business category will it slow or delete our pending listing with the scooter category? Are there any advantages or disadvantages to being listed in both spots?

I'm not inquiring about the status of the scooter category listing now because I'm trying to follow the rules and it won't quite be a month since my last query until around 3/12/03. I'll check back then on that.

Thanks,

Frank

Your site is still waiting for review in the Scooters category.

A listing in the category of your locality only makes sense if you have a physical location where people can actually walk in and buy a scooter. I don't find anything about that on your site.

The listings in the Shopping and the Regional part of the directory are generally independent. There is no disadvantage in having both. The Shopping listing is for people who want to order something online; the Regional listing is for people who are looking for shops in their locality.

Yours,
Robert

Thanks for the info and checking on the status of our scooter category submission.

We're about a week shy of 7 months since our submission to the scooter category, can you tell me where in the queue we are. Please... God... I'm hoping you're not going to tell me we're on the one year plan here. <img src="/images/icons/crazy.gif" alt="" />

Thanks,

Frank "The Scooter Guy"

Your submission shows as having arrived 30th January. Since some of the posts in this thread were made before then, I have to assume that you have at some point re-submitted your site. New submissions over-write old ones, so if an editor sorts the unreviewed queue by date (which is the default), you've bumped youself down to the bottom of the queue. Sorry.

I'm sure I don't need to tell you not to re-submit again.

That's freekin' terrible and I was afraid of that. I ran across a post talking about new submissions overwriting the old after I had re-submitted. I resubmitted because some of our listing information changed since the original submission.

I understand the demands on DMOZ editors... so many listings and so few editors. In fact there's a shortage of editors in our category. I believe you have to go up two or three topic levels before you'll find an actual assigned editor.

That said... Is there anything I can do to help speed along the process. Is there anyway the 5 months I waited in the queue before resubmission be recognized? Can someone let me know how many are in the queue ahead of us and offer an estimate of how long the wait will be?

Thanks to anyone willing to help,

Frank "Scooter Guy"

Unfortunately, there is nothing that can be done about the date. Like dfy said...it matters if the editor sorts by date submitted. There is no requirement to do that, however, so it may or may not matter in the long run. It depends on how the editor who ends up looking at that category chooses to sort the sites. There is nothing anyone can do regarding this. Sorry <img src="/images/icons/frown.gif" alt="" />

<img src="/images/icons/frown.gif" alt="" /> Yeah... that's not good.

I've got a few more questions and do appreciate the time you guys take to answer them here... as volunteers and all.

Can someone give me our status in the queue... how many are in front of us... and based on the number of editors active in this area of the DMOZ how long it might take to get our listing in there?

Can I offer my services as an editor of this category to help speed things along? I am "the Scooter Guy" ya know.

Again... the assist is appreciated. Everybody's volunteering here... that's understood.

Thanks,

Frank

&gt;&gt; Can someone give me our status in the queue... how many are in front of us &lt;&lt;

There are less than 50 sites waiting for review, and your site is almost at the bottom when sorted by date. The thing is that editors don't *have* to sort by date, there are several other ways to sort the queue. Even then, an editor can choose sites at random if they like, some editors avoid sites with spammy titles and descriptions. When someone looks at that category, they may choose yours first, or they may pick it last, we can't tell.

It's impossible to say how long your site may sit in the queue. As you know, we're all volunteers, and volunteers can't be made to meet quotas or forced to work in places they're not interested in. What we need is more editors that want to work in that area.


&gt;&gt; Can I offer my services as an editor of this category to help speed things along? &lt;&lt;

That's a much better phrasing than the first version. <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" alt="" />

That category is toward the upper limit on number of listings for a new editor. We like people to start small and work their way up. <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" alt="" /> Go take a look at the application form ( http://dmoz.org/cgi-bin/apply.cgi?where=Shopping%2FSports%2FBoarding%2FSkateboarding%2FScooters ), read all the things it asks you to read, then shut down your machine and think about it overnight. Do you really want to become an editor? It can take up a lot of time if you start enjoying it. It will certainly involve a lot of learning.

If you're still interested when you wake up, go back online and fill out the form. Be prepared to try again with a smaller category if a meta thinks that that one might be too large for you. We love it when people genuinely want to help the directory, and themsleves. We're not so happy when they just want to help themselves.

Good luck. <img src="/images/icons/laugh.gif" alt="" />

Scooters looked interesting, so I spent some time running through the queue listing many of the obviously listable sites, of which yours was one.

Cat still needs a lot of work though; if you feel you could edit objectively without favoring your own site or deleting your competition then please apply, to this category or a related cat. <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" alt="" />

Dear Mr. Seeker,

You are a gentleman and a scholar... I might go so far as to add... YOU ARE 'DA MAN! <img src="/images/icons/grin.gif" alt="" />

One question... I checked the listing right after reading your post and again just now, one day later. Our listing appears here http://dmoz.org/Shopping/Sports/Boarding/Skateboarding/Scooters/, but when I type urbanscooters.com in the search box and click "New Search" I get nada. Will it take a period of time before it shows in the search? If yes, how long.

Also, I would be interested in taking a look at non-shopping related scooter categories for editing. Maybe that would be a better bet than my editing in the shopping section... I understand that could be a conflict of interest. Can you recommend a good non-shopping related scooter category?

Thanks,

Frank "The Scooter Guy"

The search isn't updated until the RDF dump is produced, which, since the beginning of February has been produced about once per week (as per the old schedule before bugs and problems clobbered it for a few months since September of 2002).

Try the search again in a few days. Additionally, the ODP search facility isn't primarily for finding sites, but for finding useful categories. The ODP is a directory, so once you have found a category of interest you should browse through the category, rather then try to produce a search result listing those sites. That is, the search result is a category of (hopefully useful) sites.

http://dmoz.org/Sports/Skateboarding/Scooters/ or http://dmoz.org/Business/Consumer_Goods_and_Services/Sporting_Goods/Scooters/ perhaps?

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