two years and counting

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hutcheson

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Ah, we don't measure time here, and if we did, we wouldn't have started measuring it when you did.

And the ODP has a different approach to handing abuse than Wikipedia, and so it's not susceptible to exactly the abuse techniques that plague Wikipedia. What happens there is relevant -- to Wikipedia editors and users. They have their own forums, and you can discuss anything you like about them -- there.

So all your preparatory remarks are irrelevant to the ODP.

As for the questions: the first is covered by the Submittal Policy, and THAT answer is definitive, as you've already agreed to abide by it.

The second question is always the same for every category. No, none of us know where the other editors are working, and many of us don't know where we'll be working next.

ODP is more like exploring the unknown universe than like, um, standing on an assembly line all day slapping "inspected" stickers on broken bits of trash. We seldom know where our nose will lead us, or what we'll go through to get a good site.
 
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soloBRIAN

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Please don't portray me as one of those who have the audacity to inquire after a mere 12 months, my wait is definitely longer.

Is there a world's record for the longest dmoz wait?
 
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The oldest I've reviewed is one from May 1999, which I reviewed in August 2004 - that's five years - and unusual, I've only seen about two others from 1999 out of maybe 15,000 sites I've looked at.

The shortest was around 10 minutes, I just happened to see one that was freshly submitted, and reviewed it. But because of changes to the system, you will not see any reviews that fast any more.
 
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motsa

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Technically, the shortest would be <0, for those sites that were never suggested but got added all the same. ;)
 
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hutcheson

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And the longest wait will be == infinity, for the vast majority of submittals which result in no listing (the sites that are worthless, or almost worthless, or more than worthless, except to their unearned-profit-seeking proprietors).

So that's the range of normalcy. Not a lot of useful information there, eh? Which is yet another reason why we don't waste a lot of time carefully measuring it.

Also explains why we don't really care whether there's loud bleating (about that long wait) coming from some spammeisters' forum at any particular time. There are already millions of submittals that are waiting for the day of aerodynamic oinkers and superconducting brimstone, and thousands more are added daily. And the AVERAGE wait time for sites still waiting is rising, rapidly. And we know that--we know about millions of sites that are already participating in the deathwatch for the universe. What's one such site, or a thousand sites that might or might not be such sites, more or less?
 
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nea

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How the ODP works hasn't changed since you first asked about your site; we still can't predict when a volunteer editor will choose to edit in a particular category, and which editing actions s/he will perform when doing so.

Suggesting your site for review to another category could only be counter productive, supposing that your site is a travelogue about Russia and that the category you've already suggested it to is the best fit for it.

soloBRIAN said:
May you look up for me what date my site was submitted to DMOZ?
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I'm sorry, but that's not information we supply.

As with everybody else who suggests their (or somebody else's) site for review, there is only one reasonable piece of advice we can give: suggest the site once, and then forget about the ODP. You can't do anything to speed up the time until review.
 
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