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Why I hate DMOZ.org
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Their ball, their rules.
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thats one of those "catch all" rules that are used to remove you if they cant find a real reason..
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You lost me . . . what do they have to gain by removing sites? |
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Right. I am sure you are making better bank than they are, so why not put them out of business? |
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That's not my point though. What I am mainly annoyed at is that DMOZ could have huge potential as something actually relevant, but somehow manages to fill itself with idiots who in turn fill the listings with useless, spammy and dead links, while setting up ridiculous rules which often keep out exactly those legitimate sites which would be useful for the surfers. |
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You know, the guys who cry on their personal blogs about some girl who doesn't even know they exist, and whose moods are determined by the amount of comments they get to their posts (0 = suicidal tendencies, <3 = crying, <5 = sulking, >10 = orgasm). |
If it is not useful to surfers then surfers must not go there, which means you have no need for it. Right?
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Google uses DMOZ for it's directory listings A DMOZ listing helps google rankings beause of the backlinks |
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http://search.dmoz.org/cgi-bin/search?search=topix :1orglaugh |
dmoz needs a lot of work I agree. I have waited forever for sites to be added and have followed all the rules to the "T" and still get nothing from most of their catagories..
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I am quite aware of that. Just trying to emphasize my earlier point. Their ball, their rules. You are the one that said they "will always fail at being useful to the average surfer." Who cares about the surfers, right? |
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I'd be just as annoyed if wikipedia started sucking, or imdb, or google. |
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I don't see why you are bitching about it, I agree dmoz is not as useful as it once was, but what does pointing some random rule have to do with anything? Your site got denied because of that rule or something?
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Ironically, my sites almost always get listed, and pretty quickly at that. My bitching is at the idiocy of dmoz, not at what dmoz does for me. |
what are you supposed to do when you have submitted your site and you hear nothing back etc. etc.
It seems like there could be someone that never checks to see ifthere are any new sites that want to be added...but then what can you do about it? |
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