My website, which is no junk, hasn't been able to make his way into the DMOZ directory either. I suspect there's a lot of abuse out there, especially these sites which are added without the consent of their creators.
in DMOZ exist coruption or some editors are incapable. I remember that some time ago a dmoz editor account was to sell at ebay.The big coruption is in the World Section. For test I tryed to put in the directory , about 3 years ago , the site of my university 2 times at 6 months at Education (exist editors) . Until 1 year and a half nothing was happened . After that,I don't really care about DMOZ, but I saw this post and I tell my story.
Answer my question, buddy: Why is it that, at Resource Zone and the new DMOZ editor forum, people post perfectly polite questions, and certain editors tear them to shreds with incredibly rude remarks and insults that are completely unprovoked? By the way, I was a DMOZ editor for quite some time, so your IGNORANT assumption that I "know jack shit about most editors" further proves the pompous nature of most DMOZ editors. I would also LOVE to see your proof that I posted obscenities anywhere. The only obscenity I've posted is the one I just quoted from YOU!
You're such a charmer. Are you sure you aren't an RZ meta here in disguise? You are asking me to defend RZ??? I think you have the wrong person. I disagree with the rudeness there, and it is why I don't post there any more. I have only visited the new pretender once, for a couple of minutes, and don't know about that one. I will say that very often in RZ in the days of status reports many of the "polite questioners" were spammers of the first order and anybody looking at their submission record would be hard put to sympathise with them. Trouble was that the innocent also started getting torn into, and that was inexcusable. If you were an editor you will know that RZ is run by a tiny band of editors, hardly representative of editors as a whole, and many editors think it gives them a bad name and won't have anything to do with it. Plus not every editor in that tiny band is actually rude - that is confined to an even smaller group. In any random group of people a couple are bound to turn out to be complete assholes. That's life. It's not an assumption, it is clearly factual based on a very ignorant statement in post #2. And nothing I say proves anything about DMOZ editors since I retired as an editor in late 2005. Again you are incorrectly using "most" on the pomposity point. What? More than 30,000 past and current editors are pompous and you have proof of that? If you tot them all up over the years you might reach 100-200 in total but that is nowhere near "most". It is one thing to criticise rudeness in RZ, on that score you won't get much argument from anyone. But generalised attacks on "most" editors are unwarranted, unfair, and deserve to be robustly defended. Most editors are honest, decent people who abhor rudeness at RZ and despise corruption. Most editors don't have any power to do anything about it though.
Well, if DMOZ editors don't like the bad reputation that RZ brings to editors in general, the powers-that-be at DMOZ should ban editors who contribute at RZ. Until that happens, DMOZ and RZ are one-in-the-same in my book.
DMOZ has a serious problem listening to its editors. Banning people for how they express themselves, at RZ, here, internal forums, is not the answer and would only provide evidence of further dictatorial tendencies amongst the management, which is quite bad enough already. However, it could and should enforce its own communications guidelines which might result in lesser sanctions.
i don't - just a polite question rather than automatically assuming she/he was found to be corrupt or deleting competitor listings etc and therefore removed without notice
I really don't care why you left the DMOZ. At least I don't use big tough swear words in the reps I leave - unlike you.
I'm sorry that part of your reward for trying to do something for the common good of the Web is having to read such baseless nonsense. You did the right thing for the right reasons. You know it and that's what matters. I almost volunteered to take on a category because I'm familiar with taxonomy and I learned how to write in school, but after spending time in these webmaster forums I decided against it because I'm sure I wouldn't be able to put up with the attacks on my credibility. Please don't let the crud "grate" on you.
From who? If you think it would be from ODP, then perhpas you should try it and see for yourself, (it is not my experience) instead of listening to webmasters who want to get their site listed and many on here who are ex-editors.
Use a different username... That way when you hear people complaining that the 'guy in taxonomy doesn't know what he's talking about' you can shake your fist along with them...then remove their sites *smirk* Seriously though, if you go in with good intentions and stick to your morals, then the rest can be damned! If you think that editing within the ODP can help you, your community, and the end user, then by all means apply. Just don't get stuck in the drama like so many others have. Q
Nobody ever complained about categories I use to maintain, probably because I would list anything worth listing long before anyone thought to submit, it is strange that only ones who had problem with my editing were metas...