travelling man Posted February 1, 2005 Author Posted February 1, 2005 Just to save you looking at the top for details..... Originally submitted to: http://dmoz.org/Regional/Asia/China.../Travel_Guides/ But as this appears to no longer exist I suppose the closest now would be: http://dmoz.org/Regional/Asia/China/Travel_and_Tourism/Travel_Guides/ Web address (as seen updated above): http://shekou.china-direct-online.com Thanks in advance again......
bobrat Posted February 1, 2005 Posted February 1, 2005 Thanks for taking the time to add the category links from the begginng of the thread, -- the forum software does not allow cutting and pasting links between message which is why you had a problem - your second link is ok [as follows] http://dmoz.org/Regional/Asia/China/Travel_and_Tourism/Travel_Guides/ Regional/Asia/China/Travel_and_Tourism/Travel_Guides/ http://shekou.china-direct-online.com/ Sorry - but I see no change in your status.
travelling man Posted February 2, 2005 Author Posted February 2, 2005 Not trying to be funny or anything (honestly!), but over a year for such a small site on a small category, surely SOMEBODY must have had a chance to look at it by now! Can't somebody give my ANY indication as to how long this could take? Would I be better submitting it to a new category in the hope that the reviewers there are more active???
Meta hutcheson Posted February 2, 2005 Meta Posted February 2, 2005 Sorry, but that's not how the process works. Thousands of editors have had a chance to look at it. As it happened, they chose to look at a million other sites instead. (And that's OK with everybody.) The two or three million sites editors could look at today -- includes this one. Which thousands of those will be reviewed today? Who knows? The most active editors are precisely those who can edit almost anywhere, so ... there's especially little point in submitting to another category, in hopes that some editor may come along in only a few months and .... move it to the right category, where it can start waiting for a review again.
motsa Posted February 2, 2005 Posted February 2, 2005 I'll give you a free additional status check: The site is actually now awaiting review in http://dmoz.org/Regional/Asia/China/Guangdong/Shenzhen -- China level categories are not for sites about specific areas.
travelling man Posted February 10, 2005 Author Posted February 10, 2005 Ok peeps, thanks for that. Guess I'm just gonna have to sit and wait and bide my time. So difficult to motivate yourself to carry on and expand and improve the site if at the end of the day it gets rejected for some reason and nobodies gonna get to see it! Still, suppose its all good experience! Thanks again for your time
spectregunner Posted February 11, 2005 Posted February 11, 2005 I understand what you are feelling, and the relevant frustrations. Perhaps it will ease the pain if you simply forget us. The site will be either listed, or it will not be. There is really not a lot you can do about either. Spend those wonderful energies making sure that the site provides visitors with a lot of useful, unique content, then this year, nor next decade, whenever an ODP editor does visit they can't help by being impressed by what you have built. At a different level, doing this is also a greatlisting strategy. In the area of directoreis and guides there are two approaches you can take: try to be better than the worst, hope you get in, and then constantly worry about staying in. Or, try to be the best of the best, andhave everyone else chasing you and losing sleep. Good luck in either event.
travelling man Posted April 13, 2005 Author Posted April 13, 2005 Greetings peeps... Due to the fact that the site could not be viewed from China (blocked server), now it's expired I have created a new one. To this end could you please note that the home page of this website is now as follows: http://www.shekouonline.com Many thanks and regards.....
travelling man Posted April 14, 2005 Author Posted April 14, 2005 Just out of interest..... Site submitted March 2004, now mid April 2005... Just out of interest, does anyone know the record for time between submission and review???? Not being sarcastic, just genuinely interested........
Sunanda Posted April 14, 2005 Posted April 14, 2005 does anyone know the record for time between submission and review???? There have been several threads here where an editor has said they noticed a new suggestion received while they were editing a category. In those cases the time was under ten minutes. That must be close to the record.
bobrat Posted April 14, 2005 Posted April 14, 2005 My record is around six minutes, others have been faster. However, due to changes in the way suggestions are processed, it's unlikely that you can expect to see this speed anymore. Within a day or two is however is still quite normal. Within the last week I have processed the following within two days - note that the actual number of published sites is small due to dealing with spam or incorrectly submitted items I found (never submiited) - 3 Published - 3 Moved - submitted to the wrong category - 7 Deleted - already listed/spam - 11 Duplicate - already waiting to be reviewed - 2 Totally mispelled URL - unable to identify DELETED 2 Update refused 1 Update accepted 1 During the same period I have processe a lot of other sites, ranging from a few suggested in 2003 to some suggested a month ago.
travelling man Posted April 23, 2005 Author Posted April 23, 2005 Thanks..... I have to say that I trawl these pages every now and again and it seems that its the same people who (generally) crop up over and over. I'm sure that there are other reviewers just as busy but its nice that some of you also take the time to keep us updated and answer the queries..... I think that what you are doing is probably a thankless task, but I appreciate your time....
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