Why Does it take so long to be listed?

Why do some editors take so long to list your site? I mean you know that they have seen your site and you have to submit time and time again, and then others list you right away???

To start with, you don't know that an editor has visited your site. There are several automated processes that may leave a hit in your weblog from somewhere in dmoz, but that doesn't mean an editor has actually visited your site.

Secondly, editors are volunteers that are able to choose what they want to do. I'm currently in the middle of clearing a backlog of over a thousand sites from one area of the directory and I'm finding lots of misplaced entries. If I come across a site that's difficult to classify, or wildly misplaced, I leave it alone and head off for easier work. I'll come back and do the difficult ones one day, but right now my time would be better spent listing good quality sites that have been properly submitted.

It happens. Being grumpy about it doesn't move things along at all, but I will suggest to you that if you submit a _great_ description with appropriate title, your site(s) will be listed faster than those with spammy and otherwise worthless titles and descriptions.

This is true, Sorry if I came off grumpy! this is a great forum and you guys supplied great info. Thank You

Since editors are volunteer and can edit what they like, many of them will spend more time editing in hobby related categories, rather than in ones they find less interesting, like business cats; many won't even apply to those categories. And people who do want to edit those categoires first have to build some expereince elsewhere within the directory, to show that they can handle spammy and abuse prone areas.

Reasons why it takes me longer to list some sites than others and/or why I might visit a site but not list it right away:

- Site is hard on bandwidth, and I get impatient waiting for it to download so I decide to leave it for later
- Site crashes my browser the first time I visit.
- Site has an insane amount of popups (which tend to crash my browser as well), so I leave it for when I'm feeling more patient
- Site navigation is nebulous, making it difficult to find out just what the site's about
- Site content is nebulous, requiring me to do outside research before publishing it.
- Site is difficult to place and/or I don't know where to place it
- Site requires the creation of a new sub category, and I'm not in the mood and/or not knowlegable enough to be able to come up with a category description off the fly.

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