07-06-2018, 10:45 PM
Just to hop on with what Pingu said: the queues are also gigantic. The submissions you're seeing getting accepted have usually been waiting about as long as you have. We have submissions on The Sounds Resource waiting since June 2017, that's over a year ago. Unfortunately the combination of a large amount of awesome people (including you!) submitting heaps of rips, daily, and a dozen staff members with varying amounts of time and availability having to check these simply means that yeah, it's gonna take while. It does suck; 9 months is a lot and in an ideal situation you wouldn't have to wait that long, but that's how it is an you're definitely not the only one.
Don't forget that everybody involved, both submitters and staff, are doing this all in their free time. Nobody's earning a penny. I think it's an awesome achievement that this site is doing what it's doing at all, and having long queues is just a bit of a bummer. But just like submitters, the staff are humans with real lives and limited free time. There's a large list of things that can keep us from checking submissions (house chores, school, work, social responsibilities, projects, motivation, etc) and queues tend to build up if submissions are coming in faster than we can keep up with them. So it can be a bit painful when people think we don't care. Of course we do (that's why we're voluntary staff), but we need to get through other submissions first.
In any case, as I say to everyone, we will get around to you. We never leave submissions sitting for no reason. Once we do get to your submissions, we will either accept or decline it, not just skip it.
Don't forget that everybody involved, both submitters and staff, are doing this all in their free time. Nobody's earning a penny. I think it's an awesome achievement that this site is doing what it's doing at all, and having long queues is just a bit of a bummer. But just like submitters, the staff are humans with real lives and limited free time. There's a large list of things that can keep us from checking submissions (house chores, school, work, social responsibilities, projects, motivation, etc) and queues tend to build up if submissions are coming in faster than we can keep up with them. So it can be a bit painful when people think we don't care. Of course we do (that's why we're voluntary staff), but we need to get through other submissions first.
In any case, as I say to everyone, we will get around to you. We never leave submissions sitting for no reason. Once we do get to your submissions, we will either accept or decline it, not just skip it.