When will my site be in the Gateway?

First, an editor has to get to your submission. Depending on time and needs, that may take a few days. You'll get an email notice of acceptance or rejection when that happens. At this point, your site is not yet on the Gateway pages. The site pages are updated nightly, at 1:30am EST by cron task. This is also when rates and hits are recorded for the past 24 hrs (Die Roller's Top 50). Always wait about 24 hrs before complaining that your site isn't there yet.

How does a site get in the Die Roller's Top 50?

Any site in the Gateway with at least 10 votes is eligible (exception below) -- it's all the same database. The Top 50 is integrated directly into the Gateway and is a function of Rating, Votes and Hits. Sites with enough votes are sorted by (roughly) Rating then Votes then Hits, and the top 50 sites are assigned "isTop50" = "Yes." This causes three things to happen:

* 1) the site appears on the Top 50 page
* 2) the site has a special dice icon attached to it in its regular listing
* 3) the site appears near the top of the regular listing page.

The status remains until the following nightly update, when all are recalculated. Exception: some sites are disqualified for cheating; these sites cannot have the value "isTop50" = "Yes" and so will not get the three benefits listed; although rates, votes and hits still count and continue to appear on their regular listing.

Why don't clicks on "Report Problem" automatically delete the link?

Because when they were active, sites lower down in the Top 50 were found to be "reporting" sites above theirs in order to get ahead. The end result was that the other webmaster had to re-sign up. In the process, they lose their site counts, had to get a new number which forced them to reinstall their voting code. Everybody was unhappy. So now, it's an email report to the editor in charge, who will check it out and delete any sites that are actually dead.