I agree in a want, there basically becoming link farms. However I also agree that its not a bad thing as you can get backlinks etc... I'm in the middle on it.... but yes I have a directory too! lol
I think its great how many get released everyday, i have no girlfriend so it fills my time Thanks to all the owners who provide new backlink opportunities daily.
Well thank god we won't have to worry about the OP starting any new directories. right? right? right?
If you put time, energy, and money into each directory, then please feel free to have as many as you want... but when you're literally setting up a "default" web directory with a "pre-installed" template, no mods, no changes, everythings free and been seen a million times - then I don't think that's cool. You can do whatever you want in the web dir world but if you have literally 100 dirs on same IP all just copy/pasted that starts to look like spam.
It's bad for the owner but good for other webmasters to get back link :d more is more competition, if that what he meant.
I don't mind competing against more directories But I would also say for every 100 directories only 10 stay actively promoted from what I've seen.