aedge3 Posted April 22, 2004 Posted April 22, 2004 Status of http://www.thewinebuyer.com/ I originally submitted this site in October of 2003 in the http://www.dmoz.org/Shopping/Food/Beverages/Wine/category . Nothing ever resulted. I then submitted again about a month ago and still no responses or listing. If someone can tell me what I might be doing wrong, I will correct it. Regards, Art Edge Web Manager http://www.thewinebuyer.com
djdeeds Posted April 22, 2004 Posted April 22, 2004 You're not doing anything wrong; no one has reviewed the site yet. It's there waiting.
aedge3 Posted April 22, 2004 Author Posted April 22, 2004 I don't understand dmoz at all. Why would it take 6 months to get a site reviewed? I volunteered to review this category and was rejected because it was too large! But if the current editor does not have the time to get to the submissions, doesn't that demean the reputation of this organization? How about having multiple editors for a category? Would it help us if I volunteered to edit another category? Also, my research revealed comments from others that I should re-submit every month until we are listed...does that really help? And finally, how do you see that the site is waiting...can I see this somewhere or only editors?
bobrat Posted April 22, 2004 Posted April 22, 2004 Also, my research revealed comments from others that I should re-submit every month until we are listed Really bad advice, bordering on stupid and incompetant. Multiple submission results in one of two things. Either we end up with multiple copies of your site in unreviewed, and when someone is going through and deleting the extras ones, it's always possible that all may get deleted. Otherwise it's not predictable which one is left, it might be the latest one you submitted. Or, more likely, the latest submission replaces the earlier. That means if the editor decides to process the unreviewed in date order, you keep pushing your own site to the end. Lieke shooingt yourself in the foot. As far as editors working on the category. Lets' say I decide I really want to work on it tomorrow. Seeing that I only have a certain number of hours in a day, then all the other categories I work on wil have to be abandoned for a while. Then someone else will start complaining that the sites they submit to those are not getting processed. There are only a certain number of editors, I agree not enough. But speaking from experience, I don't want editors accepted that can't do the work correctly. It's a lot more work going in to a category and cleaning up after someone else, than starting with a category which is filled with unreviewed sites. The bottom line, is that everyting is voluntary, we don't force any editor to work at any pace, and if no one is interested in working on a category, then sites there wait a long time. Six months is not that long. When it's been two years.....
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