When can I suggest a site again?

buzzman

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Can I do this by submitting the site to some new-but-related category? or I have to wait for a certain period of time before re-submitting it. It's not listed yet and no ideas how to get it listed unless I resubmit the site to a different category?:confused: Thanks
 

jimnoble

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You already suggested your website to the one best category as instructed by our submission guidelines. Why ever would you want to also suggest it to a second best one? An editor finding it there will merely send it back to the one best category (where it will overwrite the earlier suggestion).

You've already done all you need to do. Any further actions on your part just cause extra work for you and for us - thus slowing the whole process down for everybody.
 

buzzman

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Thank you for all the advice. The reason why I would like to resubmit it because it has been 2 months already and my site is not listed yet.
 

pvgool

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Two months is not exceptional. It could even take more than two years before a site is reviewed. It all depends on the category, the amount of suggestions received in that category, the quality of the sites suggested (some categories attract a lot of spam) and ofcourse it depends on the volunteer editors (noone knows when they will do any work and where they will do their work).

There is also never a reason to suggest a site again (unless explicitly asked to do so by an editor).
After a site is suggested several things can happen.
1) the site is waiting review, no need to suggest again the site won't disappear
2) the site is listed, no need to suggest again
3) the site is rejected, no need to suggest it again if we don't want to list a site suggesting it again won't change our opinion
 

hutcheson

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The important fact to remember is:

SUGGESTING A SITE DOES NOT GET IT LISTED.

Then you'd stop worrying about the fact that the site was suggested but not listed. The two facts have nothing to do with each other.

Suggesting a site does two things:

(1) It may help an editor find it when he's looking for that kind of site. But nobody knows just WHEN an editor will be looking for that kind of sites.

(2) It provides a record of the site which the editors can keep as long as it's needed (and we promise TO keep it until the site has been reviewed at least once.) But when a site is reviewed, it doesn't matter whether it was suggested or not. All that matters is what's on the website.

There are no rules about when volunteers do what. You can try to help the editors any time (remembering, of course, that multiple suggestions very quickly stop being helpful and become irritating spam.) And the volunteer editors can look for websites any time. Just because a volunteer created a category three years ago doesn't mean you can't make suggestions now. Just because you make suggestions three years ago doesn't mean the volunteer can't look at the website now.
 
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