Tried but nothing worked :s

Not at all. I found and listed several worthwhile sites today while I was waiting for a friend to arrive. The owners of the sites will no doubt be surprised to find themselves listed, because they didn't do anything at all to make it happen apart from having good and useful sites.
You can't get easier than that.

 

Is there a way to tell if a site has been suggest & rejected?

 

There is no "trick" that can be applied in order to get listed in the directory, so knowing whether a site suggestion has been rejected or not is totally worthless.

Search engines can be manipulated, the directory cannot be.

No site owner has a "right" to be listed, either out of "fairness" or for any other reason. A site either improves a category, by having what the editor considers "unique content" for the category, or it doesn't.

That's the only criteria, not site design, not page rank in a search engine, not popularity, not worthiness, not the desire of the site owner, not the longevity of the site, none of those things.

There is no waiting list, there is no "my turn", there is no obligation on our part "to serve submitters".

What there is, are hundreds of thousands of site suggestions, scattered all over the Directory, that editors may or may not choose to look at. In some categories, an editor may look at them quite frequently, and choose to list them right away (within days of being suggested). I just did that with around 20 sites.

In other parts of the Directory, where we have no editors or very few editors that are interested enough to work there, it may be several years, or in categories that receive a lot of junk, editors may not look at them at all.

In either case, that's perfectly fine, we have no obligation to edit where we don't want to edit.

If any of you don't like or are concerned about that, then I suggest you read our latest blog about how to become an editor and put your money where your mouth is, and do the work yourself.

If you can edit honestly and follow the editing Guidelines, you will be more than welcome to work 7/24 as an editor. If you don't, and are only interested in helping yourself, your career will be short and your "work" will be undone.