Sorry, but I don't understand your point. How have you determined that the subset of the list of editors who have changed/updated their profile in 2007 is too old to be of any relevance? Yes, the profile page contains all editors -- just as DigitalPoint's archives contain all your 2500+ posts. And yes, perhaps most of both should be removed as too old to be fit for any purpose. But I drew your attention to the subset with a 2007 date. And that number is several times larger than the lower bound for active editors that you quote based on your "experience". Could it be that your experience is not extensive enough to produce an accurate lower bound for the number of active editors?
Its right now indexing the websites It has so far indexed 500,000 sites and actually nearly 2,000,000 listings as each site has a listing for each keyword? You do not want to submit your site in most cases but those who registered domain after 2007 has to submit their site The future of Dmoz is bleak Many webmasters have suffered at the hands of Dmoz and its editors and also due to scrap listings Its time now we pay back it and put an end to Dmoz
Actually it is matter of simple math to figure out number of really active editors, we already had several discussion about DMOZ monthly reports on this forum which you can find in old posts... http://freenet-homepage.de/miscellanea/odp_reports/ Editor numbers for September 2006 as follows: Currently active editor accounts: 7,198 (was 7,669 in January) Number of editor accounts approved since the foundation of ODP: 74,542 New editors: 332 Reinstated editors: 209 Accounts inactivated for a variety of reasons (inactivity, resignation, removal): 673 These 7,198 editors managed to raise number of listed website by 22,073! So each added 3 on average - if this is definition of active editor... Good thing report doesn't show how many editor actually did edits and how many only did that one in three months minimum so they don't get removed. So from 4,815,303 in September 2006, listed links has reached 4,830,584 in May 2007, increase of massive 15,281 links in past four months! So let say there is 7000 active editors that would mean they have managed to list massive one quarter of link a month! And 7000 editors would need to list 21000 links each three month just not get automatically removed! Also robozilla has yet to go on a rampage of dead links removal so at lest another 50,000 links will get deleted once that happens!
addition only of 15000 links for 4 months shows that many of the editors are are inactive and it also shows that Dmoz can't keep pace with the Web As web is growing very fast !
That is lie! Nothing is wrong with DMOZ! DMOZ is adding over a 100 new links each day! Really with these number daily average would be around 100-200 new links, single person can easily approve/reject that number in one day so opening DMOZ to public making it REAL community project would allow thousand of links submission with good descriptions to get listed with only role of editors to approve/reject (giving a reason so website/description can improve).
My bot is adding more than 100000 links a day to my Bigoole It will catch up with Dmoz definitely one day! Opening Dmoz to public will disaster as there was a million links pending when Dmoz's server broke down and also 1000's of link are submitted each day but the review process takes more than 6 months some time!
Well hey, if Microsoft buys Yahoo, then DMOZ's little joint deal with Google will probably die. Thus, Google gets to scuttle it if it wishes to.
Yes your are right Dmoz is there Since Google relied on it to index thousands of pages as it had no source to index at the beginning!
But I do not know why they are not leaving Dmoz?Since they no longer depend upon it to index web pages? Since they could have done it before itself
Review process can be very fast if editors don't waste time on editing only approving or rejecting so it is up to the submitter to write down perfect description. Also submission can be made to block once number of submitted websites to some category reaches number X so those spammy categories don't get backlog in thousands.
LOL, I tried three searches and got "502 Gateway Errors" on all three. Finally got one to work, tried looking for "Nike" and got one site and two google ads. Yeah a lot better than dmoz.
DMOZ Directory ? I like it why not. Most Editors A BIG NO. But somebody comparing something to DMOZ....Bigoole ? That's a Big Ole Foolish Thing To Do. A Big Joke.