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Originally Posted by jeffnova
And please don't bother giving me the "produce the evidence" line.
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So in other words you are avoiding answering the question of providing the evidence!! Can you produce the evidence or not? So you made the claim up!
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Originally Posted by jeffnova
There is a strong financial incentive for editors to exclude competitor sites and there is no process to prevent this from happening.
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WHat evidence do you have for that one. Are you making that up as well?
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The defense of the exclusion is further enabled by the misguided notion that a site that "adds nothing new" doesn't merit inclusion. So, as a hypothetical example, if walmart.com is included, there is no reason to include costco.com because it "adds nothing new."? Wouldn't shoppers be better served by being aware of both, even if the product selection is the same? Of course.
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You are right. DMOZ is built for surfers, not as a listing service for webmasters. Surfers are best served by having a choice of sites on a topic. They are not well served by having a few 100 sites with essentially the same content (for eg see the web design categories). There will always be a threshold depending on the topic and category where adding more sites with nothing unique to offer is not going to service the user.