Mainly because there is no way to see if your site is even in queue for review. Maybe Scrivs might setup a nice little database/web form that gives out a numeric ticket number for your submission. Add a “Now Serving:” display somewhere so we can know where you are at in your review and where we are at in line.

That being said, these are just growing pains. You all are doing a great job and have fantastic people, harness some technology and everyone will be a lot happier. Thanks for the consideration.

I know it’s a bit difficult to whole-heartedly make that fair to the ones submitting since you said you that you were going to do it yourselves.

Or perhaps just open up a new forum where the purpose is to submit sites and get feedback (verbal or by voting) to filter out the sites by the community. Sure there might be some abuse here and there but if a site is good, it will be voiced and voted accordingly by the majority of people who genuinely like it.

Just a thought.

Maybe you can mish-mash this suggestion along with others and come up with something that works well for both you and the community.

Though I do have a new theme now.

One critical feature to be added is feedback to the person who submitted the site. I’ve sent 3 emails within the past 3-4 months and have *never* received a response. This is before and after a post here was addressing this issue specifically. Even if it’s a 1 sentence email; that’s fine. Let people know their site was actually looked at, and give them a reason why or why it wasn’t selected. Maybe make a quick 3 question template that you guys can apply to the emails, to make repeating the process somewhat easy.

Everyone here will say how great of a job you guys are doing, and I agree with that. However you should be held accountable for things you say you’re going to do, and in the most basic case – be able to return emails.

I don’t mean this to sound negative, but rather just point out an area where improvement can be made. I agree you guys have taken on a ton of work with the number of sites that have been submitted, but that’s part of the gig unfortunately. Perhaps it’s time to find a way to accomodate the huge growth you’ve experienced.

Cheers.

Tyme, if you’re accepting any more submissions or plan to open the floodgates again, please do let me know.

It takes time and resources to chew through hundreds of applications to sort out what has potential and that which needs more time to mature.

Tyme has 100% done the right thing. The network is, what it is, because of the effort, time and quality of content, both from the 9rules crew and their members. I certainly do not envy the job at all – and it’s an absolute credit that 9rules won’t sacrifice quality in order to “hurry through” admissions (despite any undue pressure they may have felt)..

And to now know the score, really does help.. I’d rather know where I am at, than to be left hanging.. it takes away a frustration that is not at all constructive.

I look forward to seeing new voices added as and when the time is right..

Thank you for stepping up to the plate and doing the right thing – letting this drag out endlessly doesn’t generate the kind of enthusiasm you’re after and cutting-the-chord to speak gives everyone a clean break and a chance to ponder their future.