DMOZ Sucks
I have had it with DMOZ! The editors at DMOZ don't seem to be doing their job and seem very elitist. I submitted my site to be included more than five months ago and it still has not been included and no one bothers responding to my 2 emails. All I've asked, why has my site never been included?
What I know: DMOZ is suppose to be an open directory run by volunteer editors who are suppose to have an open unbiased mind, but that hasn't been true for years it seems. DMOZ is a non-profit owned by Netscape which is owned by AOL. Enough said. AOL has one of the worst reputations for customer service or customer care, which if things trickle down, makes DMOZ the the bottom of the muck / stench pile.
Doing a search on the Internet I find that DMOZ has probably not added any significant amount of sites to its directory in years and some posts have really bad things to say about DMOZ. My experience has been horrible and here is what I propose: run all the editors over very slowly with a steamroller, so they suffer before we turn them into something truly useful, Biodiesel. Make the site originally designed for the people a people's site and take it out of corporate hands, from Netscape and AOL. Keep it as a non-profit. Convert DMOZ to a wiki styled site, where anyone can add their site so long it is not one that might be on a forbidden subject list.
Until DMOZ is either converted to rubble or put in the hands of the people, do what you can to ignore it, never ever do not use it, and downwardly rank it. Fight the evil it has become. I hate DMOZ because they suck. The editors at DMOZ suck. Viva revolution.
Labels: aol, customer service, descriminate, dmoz, editors, hate, netscape, poor service

2 Comments:
I agree with your suggestion to turn editors into valuable biodiesel. You are a genius. I don't think it's ever been suggested before.
DMOZ links are not valuable. In fact, they might have no value at all.
There are plenty of sites that have been listed in DMOZ for over 2 years, and have no other link. Many of these sites have ZERO PR, yet are are listed on PR5-6 DMOZ pages, that have less than 50 links. Since these sites have no other link, you can measure the value of the DMOZ link directly. The DMOZ link is not enough to upgrade a website from PR0 to PR1. That's a very weak link, an unnaturally weak link given the high PR of the page the link sits on.
Submitting a site is a big waste of time, especially since DMOZ might not exist tomorrow, or next month, or next year. Applying to edit is an even bigger waste of time.
DMOZ is viewed as so worthless by its owner, AOL, that no backups are felt to be necessary, and a 2-month outage/blackout is taken in stride.
Google hasn't refreshed its clone of DMOZ in two years. That's a hint.
7/10/2007 5:18 PM
Hello Richard.
I am contacting you about VemmaBuilder. Wondering if you could tell me a little about it.
Thank you so much,
Michael Vila
(no relation to Bob)
2/18/2008 11:57 AM
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