Are you serious??? Maybe a day, a week, a month, a year, or never... Take your pick, flip a coin, roll the dice... Your guess is as good as anyone's.
one for sure, dont wait your site to get listed on DMOZ day by day, cause it will only makes your mind tired.
Naw, lots of editors have a good sense of humor. Some get to taking themselves too seriously, but that's because they care so much, and have put so much time and work into the project. Editors are just normal people who have volunteered to take on a thankless task. They do it for the self satisfaction of contributing something to the whole Internet community, and because it's really quite interesting and fun at times. It's like building a butterfly collection, putting a puzzle together, or playing a video game. When it becomes a chore rather than a pleasant pasttime, editors leave to do other things, as I have. But, many times they'll return. We're not the enemy, just people who are honest and follow the rules. Anyone who isn't, is given the Golden Boot Award.
That's so typically arrogant of a DMOZ editor saying that your the perfect being. Pathetic. Maybe its good to ask Jim Noble himself. Sadam and Hitler words are the same. LOL. Were Not the Enemy and We are Honest. That is the reason why you are the enemy.
Ex-editor, actually, so why would I say anything that wasn't true or feel arrogant? It will be 2 -3 years before I return, if ever. You do have a good point though, I'm damn near perfect, but I never expected you to recognize that, . Mr. Noble knows otherwise, I haven't done much editing in the last 6 months, I'm afraid, just don't have the enthusiasm I had 6 years ago. No particular reason that I can think of, I just don't feel like editing anymore. Despite that, my loyalty to the Directory and its editing community hasn't changed at all, and anything I say or have said is totally true. I have nothing to gain by lying, I'm an outsider now, just like the rest of you. I am no longer bound by confidentiallity rules, I can't be removed as an editor, and yet there is nothing I would change in what I've said because what I've said is the truth as I know it.
Never had any problems getting in, usually about 8 months. Work on other aspects while waiting for your submission. Don't apply twice just once!
As more than half the sites that get listed in DMOZ were never submitted in the first place, the answer is most get listed in less than a day
Why does that make it crappy? DMOZ is not there to provide a service to webmasters. It is there to build a directory of useful resources. I would have thought that any directory that only relies on submission to be crappy. How useful is that sort of directory if that is the case (apart from being useful to the webmaster to get a backlink)? How is the www served by those sorts of directories? If a directory is any good, why should it just process submissions - given that most submissions are crap? Can you imagine sites like Amazon; Google; Nike; Walmart; the Whitehouse; etc submitting to directories? How useful is a directory to the public if the directory does not aim to include sites like these? Any directory that does that should be applauded. It the directories that don't do that are the sort of crap that Google et al are targeting as they are there to serve the webmaster and not the "public".