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Originally Posted by anonymously
It can take from a few days to a few years or never.
But let me underline what Birdie said earlier that we accept sites as suggestions and editors look at the suggestions as and when they want to and select sites from where they want to. There is no guarantee of a listing or even of a review, if you want to offer a site for possible review, then we are glad to accept it, but to start saying we have not reviewed it in a reasonable time or we should say if a site is accepted or rejected is just not the way we work, sorry. If you want a free directory to work differently then start your own. If you want to be part of DMOZ| and help build categories and put sites into categories then there is a "volunteer to edit this category" button on most categories. But choose one with under 100 sites, including any subcategories.
Also you can see the heat generated here when we do not reply about what happened to an individual site and how people feel if they think we have rejected their site, can you imagine the heat that would be generated in forums if we sent a rejection note. "Why?", "My site was fantastic" "The editors are corrupt when they refuse my site and list my competitors"
AND most of all why don't DMOZ tell us why they rejected our site, if they don't tell us it's because they are corrupt.
I know a saying it goes heads you will tails I lose.
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Well said.
The one thing I will say though is I found it rather frustrating to apply as an editor for Dmoz. If I remember correctly, the application process took me some time to complete which I fully understand as you want to have the right people on board. Unfortunately however, the category I applied for was too broad apparently so I was asked to reapply but given no direction on a category alternate.
My fear is that I'll take the time to reapply and then receive the same somewhat vague response from Dmoz and be out that time with no idea of what direction to pursue.