Rich Skrenta, DMOZ Founder, on the Death of DMOZ

**John Scott** · 12-17-2006, 03:56 AM

http://www.skrenta.com/2006/12/dmoz_...ed_up_yet.html

Atom · 12-17-2006, 04:46 AM

quote: "Apparently the machine holding dmoz in AOL ops crashed. Standard backups had been discontinued for some reason; during unsuccessful attempts to restore some of the lost data, ops blew away the rest of the existing data on the system."

What is "ops"?

**Cricket** · 12-17-2006, 10:21 PM

What a mess.

ninjashoes · 12-18-2006, 10:09 PM

Its Karma for rejecting so many quality sites!

vangogh · 12-18-2006, 10:14 PM

Does this mean we won't have to answer questions any more from people in panic about not having been listed in DMOZ a week after they submitted?

**John Scott** · 12-19-2006, 03:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vangogh

Does this mean we won't have to answer questions any more from people in panic about not having been listed in DMOZ a week after they submitted?

Any questions anymore? Are you implying that DMOZ gives status reports in the first place?

And a week? Are you unaware of the average review time, or is that a mis-type?

Natural Elements · 05-25-2007, 01:45 PM

DMOZ based on volunteers/technocrats/corruption cannot work fairly.

If they want to do something much better, I would like to see a sign up membership with submission status, reason of rejection (so they cannot hide behind the "rule"), name of editor, eventually a super editor contact in case of problems. This will be a transparent submissions process.

mauiman · 07-22-2007, 11:21 PM

I don't have a lot of faith in PR prediction tools, but DMOZ is one of the very few directories I checked out that is predicted to drop. Currently PR8 and predicted PR7. Can check it here.

I ran the prediction tool on hundreds of directories and will report after the upcoming Google update....

Birdie · 07-26-2007, 01:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Natural Elements

If they want to do something much better, I would like to see a sign up membership with submission status, reason of rejection (so they cannot hide behind the "rule"), name of editor, eventually a super editor contact in case of problems. This will be a transparent submissions process.

Can I ask, why you actually expect some sort of service from DMOZ? How much are you paying for that service? If you don't like the service, then ask for a refund. Its DMOZ's site - they can add or delete whoever they want, just like any other site. Why do you want them to be accountable to you or any other webmaster?

BTW - why bump this old thread?

coolguy27 · 07-27-2007, 12:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Atom

quote: "Apparently the machine holding dmoz in AOL ops crashed. Standard backups had been discontinued for some reason; during unsuccessful attempts to restore some of the lost data, ops blew away the rest of the existing data on the system."

What is "ops"?

OPS - A term that stands for operations.

**John Scott** · 07-27-2007, 11:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mauiman

I don't have a lot of faith in PR prediction tools, but DMOZ is one of the very few directories I checked out that is predicted to drop. Currently PR8 and predicted PR7. Can check it here.

I ran the prediction tool on hundreds of directories and will report after the upcoming Google update....

iwebtool PageRank Prediction Tool is Bogus