You might want to actually quote me correctly. I said "nearly useless" and I have clearly stated that directory submissions should be included in an overall plan to promote. btw..can you PM me a list of your directories? Curious if I have submitted to them and I would like to see the type of quality sites you have. Thanks.
my forum doesnt have that many members, about 9.5k, (http://winwarez.net/forum.php) but I made it so that in order to not have to reply to posts to see hidden content, they must make at least 50 posts, so that helps quite a bit. you'll notice in the General Software forum i have 357 topics, and 3934 posts. thats my way.
Sorry for misquoting, here is my recent project, still working on SE, trying to drive a good amount of traffic, but as you may see I am still working on it, have to build a good collection of listings in order to ensure that my users experience a real web directory. Web Catalogue