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Originally Posted by jeffnova
Dman,
Good points. Wikipedia is a model that would breathe life into DMOZ and allow it to fulfill it's stated mission. However DMOZ will not change as long as the editors with sites already listed have a vested interest in protecting the exclusivity of their listings. |
Unfortunately wikipedia is not about listing sites, though they are listed there. You are obviously not an editor and do not realise how much crap ODP has to reject. If we opened our doors like wiki, we could not keep up with the spam submissions that would be made.
I know many editors, have been in ODP for 9 years, and I have not found one who has become protective or behaved in any way badly about competitors sites (if I had I would have reported them for abusive editing). Remember there is no one editor for any category, though an editor may be listed as an editor in a category. I can edit in any category on the whole of DMOZ and so can hundreds of other editors, also any editor in a higher category can edit in a lower one. So an editor trying to keep sites out or protect their own might have a few problems when other edits come and edit. I certainly edit in places where editors have their names at the bottom of the category and I am nowhere up that tree. I add, delete and alter what other editors have done.
When sites don't get in it's because they have not been reviewed or did not match our guidelines. But every webmaster either thinks their site is the bees knees or just want their spammy, get rich quick, copied site to be listed for their own ends.