Guest johnno Posted December 23, 2003 Posted December 23, 2003 so after more than a year waiting are you saying that this site was submitted not using compliant titles and descriptions within the ODP guidelines? Long time ago but I dont think so
Meta nea Posted December 23, 2003 Meta Posted December 23, 2003 No, your suggested description wasn't commented on - this forum is for telling submitters their site status, not discussing them, and as Jim said your status is "awaiting review". Curlie Meta and kMeta editor nea
Meta hutcheson Posted December 23, 2003 Meta Posted December 23, 2003 >so after more than a year waiting are you saying that this site was submitted not using compliant titles and descriptions within the ODP guidelines? Look -- and you don't have to trust me on this, you can read some of the other threads here -- if we want to make personal remarks about YOUR site, we will make them much more explicit than this. You'll notice that he DIDN'T mention your site OR non-compliant submittals, but DID mention sites with compliant submittals. How you could have inferred that two things were related from of a statement that DIDN'T mention EITHER of them, is beyond me. C.S.Lewis once said (and THIS you SHOULD take personally!) that before people start reading BETWEEN the lines, they should learn to read the lines themselves. No, of course that was not a comment about your submittal at all...it was an illustration of ONE of the MANY ways in which an editor could choose to process the unreviewed sites. Just for the record, another real example: an editor could also choose to process the obviously INAPPROPRIATE submittals first -- redirecting sites submitted to the wrong category or wrong language, deleting spam and checking likely spam. Or an editor could process only the NONCOMPLIANT DESCRIPTIONS, cleaning them up so the actual reviewer isn't prejudiced against a legitimate site by what might have been merely a bad case of mindless ad-hype. Or he might concentrate on the sites that have places of business in his own state. Or the ones that don't use Flash or require the Infernal exploder. Or the ones that start with the letters "D" and/or "N". None of these cases are merely hypothetical: I've done all of them myself. So the point is: we can't possibly know what the next editor will do in that category, so your question cannot be answered.
jimnoble Posted December 23, 2003 Posted December 23, 2003 Anyway has it moved up the queue any? I was merely trying to answer your question by pointing out that it isn't a queue. Sheesh.
Guest johnno Posted December 23, 2003 Posted December 23, 2003 so tell me the point of a forum called 'site submission status'. why not get rid of it and let us all sit here waiting to be included for however long it takes.
spectregunner Posted December 23, 2003 Posted December 23, 2003 Your question has been asked and answered.
bobrat Posted December 23, 2003 Posted December 23, 2003 Because it answers the question of the status of the site submission. You can be told that it's awaiting review, that it's been added, that it's been rejected. But nobody can foretell the future actions of a another volunteer editor and tell you when it's going to be reviewed. Even if you ask about a site in a category I edit in, I might have an estimate in my own mind about when I might get around to working on a site there, but I could be totally wrong, my priorities might change, I might stop editing for a while, anything might happen. I could not possibly tell you when I would add a site to the directory, for after I look at it it might need further thought and get put back in the heap. If I can't answer for the categories I work on, how can another editor read my mind
Guest johnno Posted December 23, 2003 Posted December 23, 2003 beautiful - go away and come back in another month, year and we can tell you nothing again. We used to be in a queue and were told that we were moving up or not moving at all because an editor wasn't available for this category. Now sites are cherry picked by editors and this site, sponsored and moderated by ODP editors gives no real answer to questions.
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