multiple dmoz accounts - how?

How do people who already have editor accounts get second or third accounts?

Isn't their ip address logged so that dmoz knows these are the same people?

Just curious...

 

Help from your friends that live in other cities, whatever...

But they can check your IP, and your IP can pinpoint the city you live in, yes.

 

I checked my IP address and it said I was 200 miles away.

 

That is one of the problems of DMOZ. For example a "senior" editor who have multiple accounts can keep the top account clean and use the new ones to list.

You can get different Ip in many ways.

1) Internet Café

2) second Internet Connection (Dial up for example)

3) VPN

4) ......................

 

But wouldn't there be some way of knowing by the computer you use? Surely you can't be anonymous online. I'd expect there would be some way to tell. Otherwise the Internet would be full of crime and fraud and all sorts of scary things.

 

They can try with cookies but if you have a good anti-virus program, it cleans up all the cookies.
How are they going to know which computer you use, if you go to an Internet cafe? Is not even the same computer that you will be using and it only costs $1/hour. Just imagine how many sites you can list in 1 hour and for only a $1.

 

Even easier, install Microsft Virtual PC (computer emulator) and install your Windows inside it. Then, use the emulated pc like any pc. Just keep in mind that both computers have the same IP. But an elite proxy solves that...

 

Why on earth would you want to go to all that trouble. What is a DMOZ listing actually worth? Nothing.

You can only be traced by your IP address to your ISP. Depends where you live I guess but most people tend to use huge national ISPs, hence my own IP address resolves to a town 200 miles away. If I log off my broadband connection and reconnect chances are I will be assigned a different IP address. Only your ISP can trace you further. They would only release that information to the police or on a court order. If your ISP is AOL then you may have agreed for your details to be shared within the company, otherwise no chance.

 

That's a waste of a dollar. Buy a yourself a chocolate bar instead.

 

I don't know. Yahoo charges $300 /link and other directories charge from couple of dollars to $30-$40/link, so I suppose if you can add 10 link in 1 hour for just a $1 is not a bad deal.

 

Friends, families and acquaintances in other country. Very simple feed them the data and let them do the editing and log in once in a while at an internet cafe.

Samples are Australia, Spain ( Do I speak and write spanish fluently? Oh I remember, Hell yeah)
Middle East.

 

And given the actual commercial value of a link in DMOZ you would still get better value from a chocolate bar. Not sure whether you noticed but according to most people who seem to know a DMOZ link is just another backlink. All those bonuses people used to get from DMOZ? They don't exist any more. Though if you calculated the value of a listing on the labour required - maybe $1 each.

 

If you don't have a static IP address (most people don't), then just restart your router and you have a new IP address.

 

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Mmmm... Chocolate bar
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