My site (competeing against DMOZ, with around 9200 links at the moment) nodp.info, is getting around 150/links a day (4k monthly~)now, and i am expecting it to rise steeply in the next few months. Not bad since i have zero advertising budget. DMOZ isn't dieing, it is just bleeding badly right now, but i will go in for the kill next time they make a mistake or error. Rob
Thanks malcolm she's a Siberian Husky named Snickers, a star athlete and 3 time Iditarod veteran in main lead. She's also a champion show dog and has fans all around the world. She belongs to Karen Ramstead at North Wapiti Kennels in Canada. She developed a bleeding ulcer during Iditarod early this week and died despite heroic efforts by a team of Iditarod vets to save her. A Snickers' Memorial/Ulcer Research Fund is being established to study ulcers in working sled dogs and hopefully prevent this sort of tradegy in the future. You can learn more about Snickers and the North Wapiti Team at their website. Added: Click on the Video link in my sig. It's a beautiful music video featuring Snickers running in lead along with Grover (her dad). Grover died last year at a much more reasonable age. They are a magnificent looking pair.
Yaa i know in COD i used to bleed a lot but in the end would find a medic pack and go back in the field. But never died cause i kept bleeding a lot.
It’s been six months since I’ve submitted my site, and it’s said that it can take years…why years? Because that’s how long it takes an editor to stumble upon my site on their own apparently (as it's been stated several times, editors don't even need to look at the submissions). It’s been a month since I’ve submitted my editor application, they said it’s in the queue…but from the looks of the line my chances (and your’s and your’s) are slim to none, as it seems the chances of being an editor are about the same as they are to get your site listed… DMZO is not dead, nor will it ever be unless we stand together and do something. I feel we need to submit complaints to every site that pulls directory listings from DMOZ (focusing on AOL, Alexa & Google) points to the mass amounts of sites NOT listed. DP is powerful, and word of mouth more so…if we, as a group, banded together, we could make a change. Sitting around complaining in here does little to nothing to help cure the issues that revolve around DMOZ. [bolded part by me] It’s actually a pretty thread to read. It certainly shows some true colors… you can check it out here: DMOZ project is dead (over on Resource Zone). If the bolded part in the quote is the standard mindset of the editors, then IMHO, there is something wrong with the system, as least when looked at through a certain perspective…the perspective of anyone whose written a good site and has waited years for it to be reviewed. List your grievances here about DMOZ, it’s policies, it’s staff, and of anything else that can help me (and hopefully you) “write a letter†of complaint to those that run, or maintain, this project. Of course with this post, I now no longer have any hope of becoming an editor, or having any of my sites listed…but then, I don’t personally know an editor and I can’t afford to pay one, so I guess I’d not get listed anyway. I do feel sorry for the editors that are honest, nice, and worth knowing…and to them, I hope they harbor no ill will. I wish them only the best. I am about community, and I adore the community I am a part of...I would have loved to have helped pull them together under the DMOZ flag by having them all listed in the niche category I submitted too...but it really seems to me that is not what DMOZ is for. In fact, I'm completely clueless as to what they are for, or why other sites pull their content.
do you mean a directory with 75,151 editors , over 590,000 categories and 4,830,584 sites is died ? i dont agree with you . i think the dmoz stats tell so many think
Having wiki as competition is no win situation, I should know first hand, I write article on my website and I'm only one on the net with that topic, here comes wiki editor and writes short version of my article on wikipedia and generously gives me backlink since I'm the source (which has nofollow tag so its worthless) and my traffic plummets since wiki article is No.1 on Google and number of people who actually visit my website to get more info is ridicules (basically I should be lucky not get kicked out of search results as duplicate content). Even if you replace bunch of spam links with single link to related DMOZ category in wikipedia article there is almost zero change in DMOZ traffic! And once I had somebody delete DMOZ link claiming it was a link farm. So any changes would need to be really drastic... That is grand total editor ever, only few hundred are really active.