cbpayne - 8:53 am on Jul 11, 2007 (gmt 0)

>is 3 times over the past 6 months excessive?

Its not excessive, but is pretty silly. All you have done is put your site at a disadvantage as each submission just overwrites the previous one with the new date. There is never a need to submit more than once - any more is not helpful to you or DMOZ (and a waste of your time)

>however because they are so slow in their operations it gives an
>impression of inefficiency

Slow? DMOZ is the fastest growing directory on the www and no other directory comes remotely close to DMOZ's growth rate.

>and then you start to wonder if they
>actually even looked at your submission.

As DMOZ is not a listing service and an editor is not there to process submissions (other directories provide that service), editors are under no obligation to even use suggested sites when they work on a category. Editors can use whatever source they like for new sites. The submitted sites is the worse and most inefficient way to find new sites to lisr.

>On top of that you don't even know if the editor is a competitor.

Given that each category has greater >200 people that can edit in it, I doubt all 200 are competitors.

>Is it any surprise that the directory is getting smaller?

Have you not read the messages in this thread? DMOZ is growing faster than any other directory and is NOT getting smaller (I did post in a message above the actual numbers to show this, but in the clean up it was deleted)