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Originally Posted by kimsonsolutions

thanks for the explanation , they should write down such rules more clearly on the website

Couple of things
1. There should be a category description for each category and that should have some notes about any special requirements. There is a good deal of information about what is required for shopping here http://www.dmoz.org/Shopping/desc.html

One does have to say that we are sometimes lax as editors and don't always do the category descriptions as well as they should be done, but the major categories are usually done well as the example above shows.

2. One also has to say that people offering sites really do not bother to read what is actually there, often they want to believe what they want to believe. Who bothers to read http://www.dmoz.org/guidelines/ ? Take that with the Category Descriptions and you will know as much as those editing the site.

Here we go again with unique.
Can you do us all a favor and to define for us your standards of unique.

If lots of sites are selling widgets we would not expect that they use exactly the same descriptions and any selfrespecting site will ensure they are different and stand out anyway and provided they were obviously not copies, mirrors or affiliates two sites selling widgets which were different companies would be listed because they would be unique because of them being different companies.

I have at the moment in my bookmarks a company that markets the same stuff, with same descriptions on 7 different named sites and different named companies, do you think we are going to list them all? That is what they would like. But only the main one will be listed.

On another forum some one asked about a site and when I checked it was clear they had ripped the information from another site and tried to pas it off as their own, I told them there was no way they would be listed.

you mean DMOZ Editors are owners of ODP directory?

As you well know Jim was saying that ODP will make its own decisions about how it conducts its own directory.

Again, you are talking about your area of interest. What about sites that have no interest to you? They can't be that bad or better yet they might be much more better than sites that you like and deserve more than your cold shoulder. What happened to them?

You have a nice way of twisting words. None of us do actually edit everywhere in the directory all of the time. Some editors have the right to do that but we usually function in the areas we are interested in and know something about so I would not go looking in areas that I had no interest in editing. There are stacks of categories and stacks of sites that need my attention in areas that I want to edit in because they interest me and I know a bit about them. Fortunately we have editors with different areas of interest and expertize and so the directory as a whole gets good coverage from the numbers of editors we have. Though we can still do with more editors..