Latest on how long your dmoz submisssions are taking
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I've been waiting 11, almost 12 weeks for several submissions to appear in Open Directory. I research the right category and fill in all fields carefully incl. title and description. What are typical wait times now (4th Qtr 2012)?
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Thanks. Great feedback. Good to hear some are getting listed. Does anyone know an editor -- what's the time commitment -- has it been a good experience?
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I agree that it's a big game of chance. It had been a couple of years since I had anything approved. I'd just about given up. Then I got something approved in just a few days.
Conclusion:
Don't fret about this. Do the submission and then forget about it. If it comes through, regard it as a bonus.
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+1 for Corey's response. Different categories, different levels of corruption, and many categories are without editors.
I'll add that you can often get added as a volunteer editor for a category if your intent seems to be in line with their guidelines. Never hurts to try.
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I had one listed last week after just a few weeks.
For as long as I've been around though, the average timespan is somewhere between 1 day to 2 years to never (no matter how well you've complied with guidelines). It's a pretty terrible system for maintaining such an important thing. Each category is maintained by different volunteer editors, with different priorities / level of corruption. Others are totally nice and reasonable. Some categories don't have active editors at all.
In other words, it's a big game of chance.
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