Dmoz is down

You call me annie?

hahahaha

 

still down ..aargghh..

 

More like "still down... yawn"...

 

So what is the secret ingredient?

 

the thread is started 49 days ago and dmoz is not accepting the new submissions now too

 

I was not aware that DMOZ was ever accepting submissions...

 

You know why DMOZ is down because they are no good, they got someone not happy and this person got there site down, thats what i think, they made it so hard for people to get listed and the bad part is that if you know an editor at DMOZ you get free ride.

 

Lisa, I feel for you. Really I do. It's so sad that you felt you had to offer a bribe for a listing and now you'll never get one.

It's just awful.

 

If she has $200 to waste on getting listed in DMOZ then her business must be doing pretty good and I doubt it will have any effect.

 

lets forget about it. All editor signup and link submission pages are down there;s no one willing to clean up the junk.

 

You cant evade the watching eyes of Annie - watching everywhere man..

 

I agree. No good for webmasters in their marketing efforts. It wasn't designed for that.

they got me not happy listing porn galleries and letting kids edit with no checks or compliance with COPPA. But I doubt that had anything to do with the site being down, though I will be ecstatic if it comes back minus Adult and compliant with US law as regards protection of children.

You mean hard like having to produce original, good quality sites, and submit them once to the best fit category? The people who made it hard for those sites to get listed have been those submitting pure crap and blocking up the submissions in numerous commercial categories. Spammers and marketeers. Besides it was never designed as a marketing service to webmasters, like I said, so editors really and truly don't care about how hard webmasters try.

Some have done and that is bad. But it is not a free ride to anywhere really worth going since you can achieve the same marketing results without DMOZ, with a little effort.

 

So your saying $200 is too low?

 

Hey I offered $500 just to fix the server and nothing happened so no listings below $1000 payable to Mr. Bolton Hospice.

 

Sad? Awful? Yeah ok, considering it's a directory that rarely ever accepts anyone and has many dead sites and many bad sites, listed. It's an insult actually, to any hardworking webmaster.

Definitely not worth $200 though, not even worth a penny, not even a Canadian penny and THAT's bad!

 

I guess this is the 'lets all mourn dmoz, now that it doesn't function in any sense any more' thread. Weird that people care so much about something they say is not worth any thing.

 

Yeah, the value people put on it IS interesting! What they're willing to pay and then how great others say it is, it's outrageous, and THAT is interesting, not the POS site itself.

 

I do understand people being willing to pay for a link though. Once you know dmoz, any other directory is bound to look small. also - finding relevant places for your link is so much harder when dmoz can't be bought. It's actual work.

 

I know dmoz. The link isn't worth much.

 

What makes you think we're mourning?