Multiple DMOZ listings

Will, if any of the obviously adult sites are not listed in the "hidden" Adult area of DMOZ, I want to know about it immediately, and it will be resolved very very quickly.

 

Just a joke Alucard.

I have nothing against pornography.

I just wonder who benefitted from adding all those links...

 

well I looked at a few of them (I have the full dmoz data so it is not too hard to mine it, but I really don't want to go through them all personally, I generally just look when I am submitting a site, then later to see , yep it is now listed etc).

Seems many of the first are recipe sites, and they get listed under different food, regions and holidays. Mapquest seems to get listed for maps of many different places.... stopped about there... any more specfically you want me to glance at?

 

I wish I could get some of my sites listed under every possibly relevant category.

What do you think the odds are?

I wonder if TNASUPERMARKET.COM sat in the bloody queue for two years waiting for a review before some conscientious DMOZ editor added it to 114 relevant categories?

 

Your supposed to be able to hold two spots IF your business is a walk-in (hold a regional cat) and business theme (topic catagory).

 

the lists mentioned are by domain. I don't think any of you have a problem with 1000's of listings for tripod.com or cnn.com (1000 different articles!).
here is a list of most listed URL's from the latest dmoz rdf dump:

SELECT COUNT(*) AS cnt ,  url FROM listdata GROUP BY url ORDER BY cnt DESC


+-----+-------------------------------------------------------------------+
| cnt | url                                                               |
+-----+-------------------------------------------------------------------+
|  16 | http://www.lernu.net/                                             |
|  14 | http://www.cursodeesperanto.com.br/                               |
|  14 | http://www.lkw-walter.com/                                        |
|  14 | http://www.scuolaleonardo.com/                                    |
|  13 | http://international.hamburg.de/                                  |
|  12 | http://www.chinabroadcast.cn/                                     |
|  12 | http://www.tejo.org/                                              |
|  12 | http://www.traduzione-localizzazione.com/                         |
|  12 | http://www.collectionscanada.ca/                                  |
|  10 | http://www.dw-world.de/                                           |
|  10 | http://www.vaticanradio.org/                                      |
|  10 | http://www.debian.org/                                            |
|  10 | http://www.wipo.int/                                              |
|   9 | http://www.guide-prague.cz/                                       |
|   9 | http://www.hotelgiorgione.com/                                    |
|   9 | http://www.eurominority.org/                                      |
|   9 | http://www.annefrank.org/                                         |
|   8 | http://www.euronews.net/                                          |
|   8 | http://www.tejo.org/ps/                                           |
|   8 | http://www.svenskalantchips.se/                                   |
|   8 | http://www.planto.com/                                            |
|   8 | http://www.linguaforce.com/                                       |
|   8 | http://www.euroairport.com/                                       |

Code (markup):

I say there are a lot of holiday/travel webmasters that became dmoz editors

 

And remember this is in contrast to the (alleged) "strict rules" about only submitting your site to one category... there are a LOT of sites that could qualify for the apparently specious logic that decides some sites meet the criteria for multiple (3 and 4 figures?!?) listings and others, if they get listed at all, are buried in some regional category in a 12th level category.

Whether or not it is fair (doubtful but let's entertain the theoretical possibility), it simply doesn't look fair. For anyone who sincerely still believes in the DMOZ vision (which was originally to be better and faster than Yahoo), I would think that should be seen as a major problem.

Shutting down the Resource Zone Bullies doesn't change any of that...