And what would the point of making submissions be, if they simply get ignored???
From everything I have seen, I am confident that submissions do not get simply ignored. Each submission is evaluated individually. Submissions that are rejected usually have an accompanying note from the DBA explaining the reason for rejection, and (when possible) an explanation of what else would be needed for the submission to be successful and accepted.
The DBAs are volunteers (with possibly a few exceptions), are different people, have different amounts of responsibility, have different amounts of time with which to attempt their duties, probably have some other non-RadioReference activities once in a while in their lives, and with all that, as a whole they still try to handle each DB submission with professionalism, punctuality, and whatever else it takes to keep the DB accurate and up-to-date.
There are some inconsistencies in the DB that are correctable, which have been and continue to be addressed as the current DBA Handbook is enforced by the administration.
if you consider it futile to make DB submissions, then you certainly are entitled to your opinion. But, that might not be a fair opinion if you have never tried to submit info to the DBA Team. If everyone else also considered it futile, we really wouldn't have much of a site here, would we? (If you have made submissions and had them rejected, then those situations would need to be considered individually, based upon the data submitted and the DBA involved.)
Only one opinion,