unreasonable wait time

hello,


i am trying to submit my website for more than a year now.

i tried to submit the english site to dmoz.org,

and i tried to submit the hebrew to dmoz.org .il.


there are categories that perfectly suite my website with numerous links.

i can not understand why a man that approximately lives around 80 years,

need to spend 2% ( and counting ... ) of his life to get a fair link in dmoz ?

and not just that - i do not know whats my status.


i am directing this question to all editors:

are you sensitive enough to the fact that people spend years developing

a product, night and days, before you decide to decline a submition request?


regards

You might like to read this forum's FAQ where I believe you will find answers to your questions.

FYI: dmoz.org.il is not an official ODP mirror and in fact is just a doorway to http://dmoz.org/World/Hebrew .

jimnoble]You might like to read this forum said:

FAQ[/url'] where I believe you will find answers to your questions.

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can you raise to the chalenge and not answer with a link?
right i'm with 4 posts but it doenst mean i dont know to read.

Why should he have to rewrite the information that is in the FAQ when you could read it for yourself there?

i can not understand why a man that approximately lives around 80 years,
need to spend 2% ( and counting ... ) of his life to get a fair link in dmoz ?
and not just that - i do not know whats my status.

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I don't either, the proper procedure is to suggest your site and get on with life - and stop worrying about it, that way you live to 120 years.

are you sensitive enough to the fact that people spend years developing
a product, night and days, before you decide to decline a submition request?

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I find it very sad, that someone might have spent years developing the useless sites that I reject, cause they usually are pretty bad. For the spam and agressive sites I reject, I have no sympathy.

But when you post this message, you act as if you know your site has been rejected, and since we do not ever tell anyone that, it's almost certainly an incorrect conlusion on your part. It probably has not even been reviewed.

I understand your emotions. In fact, I'm in exactly the same position you are. And I feel the same way when I've spent hundreds of hours preparing a hypertext version of an important book -- and then, everyone else just ... keeps on doing what THEY think is important, and nobody does what I think is important.

But, that's freedom. You did what you thought was important. That's your right, your privilege. In the mean time, other people were doing what they thought was important. That is their right, their privilege. And if you'll be honest with yourself, you'll realize that you have no more demand on their time than they do on yours.

So...what have YOU done for ME lately? What have you done that I was interested in. Nothing. And that's OK. I'll get over it.

You will too, if you don't let your frustration fester.

i am directing this question to all editors:
are you sensitive enough to the fact that people spend years developing
a product, night and days, before you decide to decline a submition request?

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In rereading your initial question, the above seemed worthy of a response.



No, we do not give any thought as to how long a site was in development.

Firstly, even if we wanted to, how could we possible determine how much time a given developer put into a site?

Second, we don't list sites based on effort. We list sites based on unique content.

Think about it. If I spent the next five years building a website with absolutely no unique content, it may or may not have been a worthwhile use of my time, but it certainly would not merit a listing.

I don't speak for other editors, but I can assure you that I have no regrets over 99.999% of the sites that I have declined to list.

The questioner has misunderstood what we are and what we do. That is reasonable in a world where we are quite unique. The FAQs do indeed provide some answers. So do the official guidelines. But they are clearly not getting the message across.

We are not a webmaster listing service, neither is a suggestion automatically a priority over every other source of material we have to populate our project. There is a fault in the "submission" process. It implies a webmaster is submitting their site as they do to hundreds of other directories. It should clearly state in very plain language that it is a suggestion and nothing more. The webmaster or submitter is a speculative supplier of information for our product. In other directories the webmaster is a customer of some kind. That is the main error in perceptions. Act like a supplier not a customer and your expectations will be tempered accordingly.

The reason why editors can get irritated by this sort of question is for the same reason anyone receiving an unsolicited suggestion from an insurance company to purchase their accident protection policy would not expect a phone call some months later berating them for having taken x months and still not bought the policy and how disgraceful that is. How would you react to such a follow-up call? I would put the phone down. Fortunately for the webmaster who inadvertently offends by thinking of themselves as a customer not a prospective supplier we will receive over 2.5 million prospective suggestions for material to use this year and the chances of that offence being remembered when someone thinks about the offer of that material and whether to accept or not is for all practical purposes zero.